Recovering Data from an HP Media Vault Drive - Should HP Media Vault Crash: Any alternatives to recover my data without having to buy another HP Media Vault to read these drives?
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You can read them on a Linux box or any PC booted with rescue Linux cd. There are guides on how to do this. or buy used on ebay for $60 (that's what I did) or send your drives to someone who has similar hp unit
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Search for a program on the web called HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool. That should do it for you.
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You should be able to recover just the files that you want, assuming you can locate them (meaning that they haven't been overwritten yet) and you can identify the names of the files. (In the case of a really bad disc crash, you might only find hundreds of now un-named files that need to be opened individually to figure out which is which. This is rare, though, and doesn't sound like what you're dealing with.)
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You might consider the HP MediaVault instead; which lets you set up and manage a Raid mirrored drive set easily via your PC interface and break the raid to put the copy into an Safety Deposit box. It uses inexpensive 500gb drives. I have two of them and they work great, super easy to manage compared to most NAS I have used.
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OMG, NO! We had one fail without notice and it was a major problem. We thought the dual drive on ours would be a safe backup system, but the entire drive failed. A service company worked on it and we were fortunate to retrieve most of the data, but it was a very close call and expensive. Now we have TWO separate backup drives on all systems.
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Coincidentally, my WD Caviar Green 2TB HDD with the same PCB failed about 3 weeks ago and am also looking for a replacement with the same PCB# as I need to swap to grab the data.
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After writing about 200gb of data on 2 of these they failed. It's very hard to do, but after they died, I managed to crack mine open. Innostor makes the electronic USB to SATA drive adapter inside. Inside one, I found a Western Digital laptop drive made in 2007. In the other I found a Seagate drive, also made in 2007. They put very old, well used drives in these. So it's potluck if you'll get one that will last a while. They advertised these as new, & I paid for new drives. If I wanted used ones, I could have got them real cheap or for almost nothing. I don't recommend used or refurbished drives. They're unreliable. After writing about 200gb of data on 2 of these they failed. It's very hard to do, but after they died, I managed to crack mine open. Innostor makes the electronic USB to SATA drive adapter inside. Inside one, I found a Western Digital laptop drive made in 2007. In the other I found a Seagate drive, also made in 2007. They put very old, well used drives in these. So it's potluck if you'll get one that will last a while. They advertised these as new, & I paid for new drives. If I wanted used ones, I could have got them real cheap or for almost nothing. I don't recommend used or refurbished... » Read More After writing about 200gb of data on 2 of these they failed. It's very hard to do, but after they died, I managed to crack mine open. Innostor makes the electronic USB to SATA drive adapter inside. Inside one, I found a Western Digital laptop drive made in 2007. In the other I found a Seagate drive, also made in 2007. They put very old, well used drives in these. So it's potluck if you'll get one that will last a while. They advertised these as new, & I paid for new drives. If I wanted used ones, I could have got them real cheap or for almost nothing. I don't recommend used or refurbished drives. They're unreliable. « Show Less
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Yes you can. Go to CNET.com and look for recovery software. I do it all the time.
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That's what I am using right now. Replace the rotating dasd with solid state. Wish I could do that on my desktop. I am not sure what that PC model is, but it will work. You must have a way to copy ALL data from old drive C:. I used some purchased utility to help. To be done only if you know what you are doing.
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Check this one too. http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B009KN1H3W/ref=mp_s_a_1_7?qid=1427046651&sr;=8-7&keywords;=dv6-2155dx+hard+drive&dpPl;=1&dpID;=41fwy4lzG5L&ref;=plSrch
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I have heard of this issue in ASUS laptops, but have not experienced any kind of Drive failures in mine. Though Ive only had mine for a little over a year now. Sorry to hear about that, hopefully you can recover the data.
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I concur with Robin V on this one - I suggest replacing any failed drives with a WD RED drive. They are built to work in NAS boxes under constant use while other drives are not built for this kind of use and abuse.
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Shouldn't have a problem with any DV7. As your primary, you would probably have to reinstall windows 7 from your system back up disk. You did make a set didn't you. HP no longer supports DV7 series.
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At this moment I am pulling data off an external USB drive that appeared to be totally dead. Clack, click, whiirrrrrrrr and never came online. I froze it. Not kidding: http://www.emergingtechs.com/posts/put-your-hard-drive-in-the-freezer-to-recover-data/ Mine works for about 1/2hr until the drive warms up again, then back into the freezer. Given this scenario it makes sense to know what is critical, get it first, and get the non-essential stuff later. All my important stuff is already recovered and now I'm copying over 40GB of "nice to have" stuff. As soon as this process is over I'm going to improve my backup scenario!
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Yeah, I've been using a couple of ScanSnaps for over a year, with no problems til today. Like you, I have a 500g drive, so I was stumped. When rebooting brought no relief, I literally sat and stared at my file mgr, trying to figure out what, if anything, changed. That's when I realized that I'd been lazy/ sloppy the past few weeks- not bothering to organize the docs into assorted folders. Live & learn, eh?!
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Same problem here. When backing up my music and photos I kept getting this error message, now I'm thinking the hard drive might be dead. Hope I can recover my backed up files.
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I purchased a 1 TB Seagate expansion drive to back up files on my MacBook. I formatted it using disk utilities, and then the computer would not recognize the drive at all. So now I cannot recover my files. Seagate said that they will replace the drive under warranty, but in order to recover the files on it, they wanted at least $300!! My advice - stay away from these Seagate drives.