Comments on: View It Now for SNAP OS 4.X

By: bitor

bitor — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 15:19:40 +0000

Dick, do you know of ANY other OS that will mount the SnapOS HHD ? Do you know of any other OS that will be able to see the mounted SnapOS HHD ?
Thank you for your expert knowledge.

Best regards,

By: Vince Truchan

Vince Truchan — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 03:10:21 +0000

I ran VIN-SNAP on a 160 gig drive and received a read error at block 216 of 39266:

FUNC:() MSG:() LBA:(0) NUM(0)

When I click OK on the error message, the program closes. Is there anything I can do with this? Thanks.

By: Dick Correa

Dick Correa — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 17:00:48 +0000

Phil,

Is the drive slow in coming up? Was the LaCie slow to format? If you formatted the drive then you should see data in the partition table of the software.

You either have:
1. Bad sector 0
2. Cloned the wrong direction
3. Intermittent USB interface problems

What I would do would be to format it again and see if it shows a drive letter. If it does not then look at it with the partition repair tool. If the display is still zeroes then the interface or the drive is bad.

Lastly, I am assuming that you are not concerned about the data since you formatted the LaCie

Dick

By: phil

phil — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 10:04:49 +0000

Hello,

I have a Lacie external harddrive which does not show up on the computer (no drive letter) , I think partition (maybe have been deleted or corrupted) might be missing. Problem showed up after formatting and then trying to clone to it. I used ”Partition Repair” and can now see the drive and when I click on it the boot and all other settings are zeroes. I cannot edit any of the settings either. Is there anything I can do to reset the sttings in Patition Repair or How can I rewrite a boot partition to it? Thank you.

By: jeff

jeff — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 22:37:15 +0000

Followup: I was not aware of WinHex, I have been using HexEd. With WinHex, I was able to explore the content of the drive even though Windows does not recognize it. I am very happy to be steered toward WinHex, it really is something special.
I’ll see what I can do from here. Thanks for the tip!

By: jeff

jeff — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 03:01:59 +0000

I experienced a failed disk in a mirrored pair in a Snap Server. I cloned the failed one with a sector copier. With this clone connected to my regular Windows box via USB, the Snap OS File Viewer shows entries for all the files I can no longer access.
This is maybe a sophomoric question, but “now what”? I can’t copy, transfer or rescue these files in any way, all I can do is see that they seem to still be stored on the drive.
The working drive remained in the Snap, and would not display anything so I asked it to do a soft recover. It did, and the Snap functions but displays an empty file structure.
I have done some medium-level recovery before with FAT, NTFS, and Mac, but this is alien to me. I can’t look at it with a hex editor because the system does not recognize the disk.
Any comments or hints would be welcome!
Jeff