Emergency!

[rmills]

I turned on my primary windows recorder puter last night to begin some mixing in Cubase 2.0 on a huge project, (about 130GB of 16 bit audio). This is a project that I have never had problems with in the past. All this info was recorded into a new (four months ago) Maxtor 200GB drive. The Maxtor drive has never exceeded 96deg.f. as I installed it into a forced air chassis with temp monitoring and fan speed control.

When I turned on the puter, disk check started automatically and wiped out 120GB of what it called orphan files. I immediately opened a command prompt and got the official directory which showed that in fact Windows had managed to wipe clean 120GB of audio!

I have no internet connection to allow for bugs or virus, in fact never even installed a modem on it. The system is a XP Pro SP 1, Cubase 2.0, Sonar 3, Wave Lab 4.0, Sound Forge 7, Hoontech DSP 2000 x 4, ATI Rage 128 AGP dual monitor support, 80GB boot disk, 200GB record disk, and absolutely nothing else.

I need a hard drive recovery tool that works and fast! Windows never stated why it wiped out the list of orphan files, (over 7,000 of them) but Maxtor has a utility that lists the drive state, and it shows clearly that there is a 130GB portion of this drive that is full. Windows shows 10GB of that drive full as well as DOS.

Windows shows that the drive works properly, and all diagnostics show that there are no unusable portions of that drive, no bad sectors, and no issues! What happened?

PANIC!

 

[willow the wip]

you can restore your files using a system restore.

goto start, all programs, accesorrys, system tools, then system restore.

their is a program i use called cool edit.

but with cubase you cant restore lost files other then that.

Their is one restore software that may work.

here is a few restore software if you do not use windows ME.

http://www.soft411.com/software/restore.html

 

[stovebolts]

I understand this is a bit late... But, for future reference... Checkdisk errors cannot be recovered through standard windows methods. (Rollbacks, system restore is a BAD idea and don't work either in this case if it described correctly).
I would take the hard drive out and put it in another system as a slave drive and run Ontrack's Easy Recovery. It's a bit expensive, but worth it if you absolutly can't loose any data.
http://www.ontrack.co.uk/easyrecovery/