Please Help - 2 TB of Material destroyed!

[Ed Watkins]

Just FYI, the WD external drives are garbage, especially the MyBook series. We have no love for them here.

Glad you have everything working and disk warrior fixed it for you.

I second that.

Lost two of them in one week. They are pieces of junk. Luckily I had back ups.

 

[Dave Blackham]

Hi everybody,

I managed to fix it. Alsoft Diskwarrior did the trick. So Jeff was right: After the disks directory replacement everything was fine again. But we're probably still going to buy a new disk.

The drive is an WD MyBook Mirror Edition (on the set we used the Studio Edition for the initial backup). With the 40 hours I meant copying the whole 2,5 TB over to another disk. It takes approx. 1 min. per GB, so 2500 min. equal 41 hours. Just a normal copy via USB2. On my MacBook

I know, it sounds semiprofessional, but we are independent... and not "American-everything-under-10-million-is-low-budget"-independent but "German-I-have-to-lend-money-from-friends-and-family"-independent :smilewinkgrin:

And it is no short - we shot a full 110 min. desaster movie in english for approx. 150.000 $. If you want to, you can check out the trailer on Facebook or YouTube

But thank you all so much for your help and suggestions!

Best regards,
Niki Drozdowski

We run a small facility here, just to keep clients drives working we have as many disk fixing tools as we can find. It seems its just a part of reality of staying alive these days. Glad your sorted out.