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WesternDigital external usb HD - that was weird


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I had used it with XP and w7 and had a few movies and photos on it. Recently I got a Sony media streamer/player which runs some version of linux and put that in the shuffle of machines that used the HD. The Sony can not write, only read to the HD.

Last week the HD was not recognized by the XP and then the w7 machines. oh they saw the drive , but they could not read any information off of it. There was a complaint of "Circular CRC-32".

Yet the Sony was still able to play the files.

:hmm: I attached the HD to a Buffalo TerraStation at work which runs a linux. The TerraStation sees it no problem. Can the XP box on the network deal with it? Yepp. Unhook from TerraStation attach to XP - nope.

So I backed up the HD to the TerraStation (500G took around 2 days), reformatted the HD with the WD formatting program and copied the files back to the HD.

 

It just strikes me as very weird that linux boxes could read ntfs drives but neither XP, W7 or W8 could.

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Sometimes you just have to do what you did. Sometimes Windows can be really boneheaded about a drive that they see as marginal or worse, even when other OSes can actually read them fine.

 

We have seen that too. Weird, but that's the way it is sometimes.

 

Glad you could get the data off and reformat it OK. :thumbsup:

 

BTW: If you have Steve Gibson's SpinRite 6, you might want to do a non-destructive check on it.

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don't have SpinRite (still on version 6???? It must be 20 years old!) , just gave it the old fashioned test :

could i see the files on the pc :yes:

could I see the files on the media streamer (SMP-N200) :yes:

could i go back and see the files on the pc? :thumbsup:

 

An oddity is that in the copying files from the linux NAS, all the files had the security flags changed so that regular users could only view and execute. I had to go into admin mode (not admin user) to delete files.

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Hello,

 

Perhaps there was some kind of corruption og the file system on the Western Digital external USB hard disk drive that was only recognizable by Microsoft's NTFS driver.

 

Regards,

 

Aryeh Goretsky

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