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radica
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October 06, 04 2:48 PM (permalink)

Sonar 3 Major Crash

Lastnight I was working in Sonar 3 when I had a dropout that locked up Sonar. I had to do the 3 finger salute to get out and when I went to boot back to win2000 it said it could not find hardware to boot up. I have a duel boot with win98. I went back to win98 side and my win2000 partition was gone as well as my slave physical hard drive. I went into the BIOS to see if it would at least recognize my other hard drive and no go. In one fell swoop I lost my audio hard drive and my WIN 2000 partition on the other drive. Anybody else have this happen to them. I'm guessing the boot sector of the WIN 2000 side got corrupted enough to not recognize the partition, but still there for it to show as a dual boot when booting up computer. I have not done anything to the master hard drive and wonder if I should do a scan disk? I was going to use fdisk and see if there is still a partition that is recognized. Any other help or advice would be great. Good news is most of the stuff was backed up a bit ago.
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    HammerHead
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    RE: Sonar 3 Major Crash October 06, 04 2:51 PM (permalink)
    drive crashes suck the big one.

    thats why we do backups.


    its odd that you lost the partition on your primary and also the 2nd hard drive (if i understand your post correctly) but stranger things have happened. are you sure your win2k partition wasn't on the 2nd drive ?
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    Guitarmech111
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    RE: Sonar 3 Major Crash October 06, 04 2:54 PM (permalink)
    working in Sonar 3 when I had a dropout that locked up Sonar.


    I have had 3 HDs go bad on me this year. All of them were ~200G.

    Your title would mislead people to think SONAR was at fault where I don't believe that is true.

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    radica
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    RE: Sonar 3 Major Crash October 06, 04 6:43 PM (permalink)
    No the other hard drive was just for audio. I just never had a hard drive fry before and certainly not that and a blown partition on a seperate drive as well. I don't think Sonar had anything to do with it except that I was working in it when it all happened.

    I just thought I would see if someone else might have had a simular experience. Thank you for responding
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    radica
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    RE: Sonar 3 Major Crash October 06, 04 6:49 PM (permalink)
    I suppose you could look at the title like that, but not what I ment. This is the first time I have had anything go weird while working in Sonar. It seems to like Win 2000 as well. People are trying to get me to move to XP, but not sure if it will be any better for audio or with Sonar.

    It could have been trying to write or read to the 20gig drive when the drive most likely took a dump, sending Sonar into a frenzy and maybe the 3 finger salute corrupted the file structure of the partition as well. I looked at it with fdisk and no partition anymore. Weird at least.

    Thanks for the response! I am a new person to the forum.
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    jyoung
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    RE: Sonar 3 Major Crash October 06, 04 7:00 PM (permalink)
    Sorry to hear about your hard luck.
    When it comes to computers, hard drive crashes are probably my biggest fear.
    The best action you can take it to religiously backup your important data. I copy my data nightly off to another system and then eventually burn it to a DVD.
    One piece of advice I have is that I avoid buying hard drives that are heavly discounted. Hard drive manufacturers inspect and grade their products based on their predicted reliablility and some discounters buy up lots of these drives that are of a lower grade and sell them at a "too good to be true" bargin price.
    < Message edited by jyoung -- 10/6/2004 7:09:11 PM >
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