Accessing Cached Filesystem

[jchmack]

I recently knocked over my External hard drive while accessing it (listening to music) and now it seems that it is broken.

Now I am just trying to rebuild my music library.

When I first knocked it over I noticed i could still browse the file system but I just couldn't open files. I restarted my comp hoping that it would fix it. But windows no longer recognizes the drive (Seagate Freeagent Desktop). It just tries to spin up and beeps every few seconds.

I am hoping that maybe windows might have stored the directories of the drive somewhere. Before I did a reboot I could still browse around in there just not open any files.

I know that file recovery from a broken drive is an expensive thing and I just want to know the filenames of the songs so i can begin to rebuild.

On a side note If anyone has any good tips/links on how to repair a broken external hard drive I would be very glad to listen =)

[GDH]

Hi,

It is hard to know if your problem is now at a physical level (i.e. if the drive is physically damaged), or if it is at a logical level (the file system has become corrupt).

Does the drive sound ok? - does it sound like it is spinning normally? Any stange noises? What does the light on the front of the drive do?

When you connect the drive, if you got to MY COMPUTER > MANAGE > DISK MANAGMENT can you see the physical drive connected to your PC? If so, you should be able to use data recovery software to get it back. Follow the first sticky post of this forum to give Recover My Files a try.