recovering corrupt data

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12.26.2011 10:57pm

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silveryoshi
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Hello all,

You might remember me from the thread external HDD vs USB stick in FFO. I decided to go for an external HDD and had lots of fun copying my files on it. Now for the interesting part. I then noticed that it was running a little slow. When I visited a site named PCpitstop it diagnosed my new drive with an uncached speed of 1MB/sec compared to 35 MB/sec for my old internal drive which came with my computer when I bought it 8-9 years ago. It also told me to set the drive to ajust for performance to increase speed (which I did, but failed to read the notice that said data could be lost if an unexpected power failure happened.)

So, surely you see me coming from here. Once I pressed the reset button during boot up because I remembered I wanted to check something in the BIOs and when I tried to access some specific files on the disk after the check up, I kept getting a "cannot read animation data" error message.

The files are still there in the folder and the rest of the content of the disk seems fine, but it appears those files were corrupted and cannot be read anymore. What's more is that these files aren't common extension files. They're .rvdata files (associated with RPG maker VX).

So I'm wondering if there's a way for me to repair those files for free by myself or if I should seek help from a professionnal. (Are these files even recoverable?)

I'll finish by humbly thanking you for any help you guys can provide and yes, you can scold me for not making any back ups of important data.

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12.27.2011 2:54pm

Southern Comfort
silently judging all of you

Yeah, it's better to leave external drives set to use minimal cache and immediate write. Externals will never equal the performance of internal drives, and you don't want them to.

That being said, professional help is required at this point, and don't expect it to work. If the files in question are corrupt, they'll likely have to be recreated.

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12.29.2011 10:16am

Arckanghel
Pirate.

Unfortunately, I have nothing else to offer either. Expect to spend lots of money and quite possibly get nothing at this point.

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