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Posted by George Hester on 10/23/05 17:12
"Game On" <none@none.none> wrote in message
news:vO%5f.8366$fC3.822@trndny01...
> I have a Maxtor 120GB external hard drive (drive E) that i keep all my
> music on. Tonight i was trying to copy an ALBW from my external to my C
> Drive and i got this yellow triangle by my clock. It was an error message
of
> some sort. So i shut everything down and restarted. Now when i go to my
> external drive all my music from M-Z is gone. A through M is still
> there........it was only a minute that all this happened. I find it hard
to
> believe 20GB's plus are gone in that short of time.
>
> It appears that i didnt get ANY space back on my drive so i think their
> there i just cant see or access them.
>
> Anyone ever have this happen to them and what did you do to get them back?
> This sucks..........suggestions please.
>
>
Yes it is called a Disk Write Cache error. That means either the disk is
bad or it became unconnected. I have never seen this with IDE drives only
SCSI. What I would do is turn the machine off and make sure all your
connections are snug. Then with the top off try again.
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George Hester
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