Hardcore Rock Superstar

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hey folks, so i've recently moved to a notebook. I've put the hdd with my music into a slow *** old desktop, and been copy'n it over to a network access storage device (sata drive - connected directly to the router)

I've been copy'n music over for like 2 weeks, few folders at a time, as it copies super slow - old pc connects through wireless usb thingy (and it's usb 1.1) so it's slow *** slow.

None the less it was working, copied about 9000 files folders 0 - M, then i was just gonna let O finish, or a few of hte O folders, mainly off spring,a nd reformat my notebook cause i dislike media center edition. Doing so, i looked and i only had about 5gb of music on the NAS device. Checked the old networked hdd, and there's letters o-z nothing else. So the rest was moved over hte past two weeks i checked and used it daily. But it up n disappeared :S.

So not happy by any means, about 40-60gb of music - about 9000ish files all nicely sorted just up n disappeared. Is there any recovery software that'll let me recover files on a network drive? using a non ntfs or fat32 file system. I think i chose to use ext 3 (which is supposedly the safer, worse performing file system of the two (other option being ext 2).

Any help at all folks???

I used recovery software in the past when i accidentally formatted my music drive and it worked just great, granted it took a while. But that time the hdd was in the pc. This time around i wasn't doing anything funny, it was just there one moment and not there the next, like i said to over write it somehow with different files :S


**EDIT**

If i pull the drive from the NAS and attempt to install it locally in a computer, will the PC read the EXT3 file system? Likewise, apart from my brothers computer, my only option for connecting the drive locally is through an external drive bay and USB. Are my chances any better for a recovery software to see the drive.

Staff @ CAFz

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Try OnTrack Recovery Professional 8

Roscoe

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If the hdd is kinda fubar try using GET DATA BACK.

You might need to strip the drve out and mount it into another computer too.

They make software for NTFS, FAT, and Linux

Hope it helps

Hardcore Rock Superstar

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I got the software back, had to mount it in a usb drive bay and used file scavenger 3.1 which worked well. Now i'm thinking maybe the drive is on it's way out due to what i found. None the less, i'm gonna format and copy crap to it again and see what happens, I'll keep a copy of whatever i move this time around though an djust store it on my bro's computer - he doesn't need to know lol.