Hello!
I have a problem. I was recording music Friday night on my PC. Recordings are written to my 2nd HDD (F). OS Win 7 is on a partition of 1st HDD (C -- OS is partitioned there on E) I think.
Now is where I apologize for being inept both at posting on forums and for my lack of knowledge.
What happened:
While recording music, my DAW just shuts down suddenly. As mentioned above, recordings are written to F:, as well as project files that save parameters, etc of the session. When I re-opened the DAW and tried to access my session it hung and failed to open anything - trying to pull from F:
Symptoms:
Now my F: cannot be accessed anymore. The PC startup time is roughly 5-9 minutes, compared to 2 min. previously. System is sluggish. Win 7 shows the F: drive, but cannot access. I hit F8 on start-up to get into mobo bios ??? sorry if that's wrong lingo, and I only see the C: HDD with my OS on it, etc. I no longer see the F: on mobo diagnostics.
Is that even possible? Win 7 shows it, but mobo doesn't?
I also found F: in Win 7 by going to disk management. It reads the capacity and everything, the colored bar was blue So.......
What I've tried so far:
Scanned/(should have) eliminated any chance of virus as root of cause.
PC cannot run a check disk on the drive.
I did a system restore. I ran Startup repair off boot disk.
Nothing worked so far.
ALL I want to do is get the files off that HDD and then I'm ditching it. Any advice?
I have a problem. I was recording music Friday night on my PC. Recordings are written to my 2nd HDD (F). OS Win 7 is on a partition of 1st HDD (C -- OS is partitioned there on E) I think.
Now is where I apologize for being inept both at posting on forums and for my lack of knowledge.
What happened:
While recording music, my DAW just shuts down suddenly. As mentioned above, recordings are written to F:, as well as project files that save parameters, etc of the session. When I re-opened the DAW and tried to access my session it hung and failed to open anything - trying to pull from F:
Symptoms:
Now my F: cannot be accessed anymore. The PC startup time is roughly 5-9 minutes, compared to 2 min. previously. System is sluggish. Win 7 shows the F: drive, but cannot access. I hit F8 on start-up to get into mobo bios ??? sorry if that's wrong lingo, and I only see the C: HDD with my OS on it, etc. I no longer see the F: on mobo diagnostics.
Is that even possible? Win 7 shows it, but mobo doesn't?
I also found F: in Win 7 by going to disk management. It reads the capacity and everything, the colored bar was blue So.......
What I've tried so far:
Scanned/(should have) eliminated any chance of virus as root of cause.
PC cannot run a check disk on the drive.
I did a system restore. I ran Startup repair off boot disk.
Nothing worked so far.
ALL I want to do is get the files off that HDD and then I'm ditching it. Any advice?
And one last thing, you said "I hit F8 on start-up to get into mobo bios", did you mean "to get into windows safe mode"?
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