For you tech savy guys

dee1949
dee1949 Posts: 1,425
edited April 2012 in The Clubhouse
....started my pc desktop....one of my storage drives with 500 movies stated it needed to be FORMATED. Bummer. Had most of the drive backed up. Ran Scandsk and it screwed up the drive even more. Borrowed Partition restore and tried..didn't work. Next tried "Testdisk" which took 12 hrs to recover to another hard drive. Problem was, it converted all my avi files to mpg, which could not be read in any app I have. Tried changing mpg to avi for files without success. As a last resort I ran Seatools....was a Seagate drive. Drive failed the "Short DST" test....ran the repair on Seatools....now I can read the drive. In the process of backing it up. SMART reads the drive as healthy. After backup will try Scandsk again. Hope this helps someone in the future.

What would cause "SHORT DST" test to fail...corrupt file layout? What finally fixed it? How?
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  • DMara
    DMara Posts: 1,434
    edited April 2012
    Gave me a headache :biggrin:
    Gears shared to both living room & bedroom:
    Integra DHC-80.3 / Oppo BDP-105 / DirecTV HR24 DVR /APC S15blk PC-UPS
    Living room:
    LSiM707's / LSiM706c / LSiM702 F/X's / dual JL Audio Fathom F113's / Parasound Halo A51 / Panasonic 65" TC-P65VT50
    Bedroom:
    Usher Dancer Mini 2 Diamond DMD's / Logitech SB Touch / W4S STP-SE / W4S DAC-2 / W4S ST-1000 / Samsung 52" LN52B750
    Other rooms:
    Audioengine AP4's / GLOW Audio Sub One / audio-gd NFB-3 DAC / Audioengine N22
    audio-gd NFB-10.2 / Denon AH-D7000
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  • bmbguy
    bmbguy Posts: 416
    edited April 2012
    I don't think I'd put a lot of faith on that drive if the self-test failed. And I doubt that a corrupt file system would cause a self-test to fail, since the drive itself wouldn't know or care about what data was where on the disk.
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