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Thread ID: 78748 2007-04-27 02:41:00 Nero restore of hard drive Camel (12184) Press F1
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544681 2007-04-27 02:41:00 G'day,

Recently my secondary hard drive had a master file table error and I couldn't access it . No problem, I had this you beaut backup system using Nero . Ha :lol:

First, I had problems trying to recover files from a Nero DVD data disk :annoyed: I got about 2 . 6 Gb of data (jpg files) back when explorer said that there were "no more files on the tape"!!!!

I had backed up the secondary hard drive on my system about 12 months ago using Nero hard drive backup (on a DVD) . I decided that as a last resort I would restore from this .

When I tried to restore the hard drive booting from nrestore . exe (on the DVD) the program works OK up to the point where it asks for driver installation etc (Option 1 or 2) .

At this point my keyboard does not seem to be recognised (no input :groan: ), the program defaults to one of the options (who knows which!) and provides a screen that requires a selection of drives to restore . However, because I have no keyboard input I can't select anything .

Help! I have (or had) two years worth of photographs on this HDD! 		Camel (12184)
544682 2007-04-27 03:26:00 When I tried to restore the hard drive booting from nrestore.exe (on the DVD) the program works OK up to the point where it asks for driver installation etc

Chkdsk should fix an MFT error. Did you try it?

And what program works up to a point?

You haven't formatted this drive or anything drastic have you? Because your files will still be there.

And I wouldn't use Nero backup. Nor keep 2 years of photos in only one location.
I have a Ghost image, an Acronis image, and data stored on a separate hard drive as well. 		pctek (84)
544683 2007-04-27 04:35:00 I have a feeling that you are quite likely to have lost pictures . :(

First: don't do anything which will write to the disk .

What have you done to this hard disk after it failed? Have you reformatted it?

If not, it might (probably) has a corrupted file system, so the OS can't reliably write to it, or know what areas are free . If you have, the file strucure might be OK, but it will write over any files which are still good .

You could try chkdsk, but any "fixes" it does are often data-destructive . :(

Can you see directories and (individual JPG files) on the DVD, using Windows?

Does Nero have a "check" option for DVDs it has written? See what it tells you .

(Whenever you do backups you must select the "verify" option, so you know that you have written and can read all the files you wanted to backup . Otherwise you can not trust it . Even so, two copies of a backup is the minimum . )

Any writing you do to the hard disk risks losing good (but presently inaccessible) files which might not be readable off your "backup" DVD .

There are a number of data recovery programmes around . Some are free . I hope that they will all refuse to write recovered files back onto the faulty disk, but if they don't forbid it, make sure that you don't allow it . ;) Recovered files must always go to another physical device (not even a different partition on the same disk) .

Someone might be able to recommend some suitable recovery programmes . I haven't needed to use one for a long time . :D 		Graham L (2)
544684 2007-04-27 08:00:00 Thanks for all your responses .

Tried CHKDSK early but it did not fix the problem . Can not see directories .

Looks like I may have to format the drive - can't afford to get the data professionally recovered .

With regard to the DVD backups - I seem to remember selecting verify because of the amount of time that it took to write and verify .

A very strange message is 'no more files on tape' .

Has anyone ever encountered it? 		Camel (12184)
544685 2007-04-27 08:06:00 By the way, I got NRESTORE.EXE to respond. It doesn't like USB keyboards. Camel (12184)
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