External drive crash

OK, this may have been posted before, but I am not scrolling through a bajillion threads to find out:
I run i Tunes on my PC and kept all music and image files on a Maxtor external drive. It crashed, and in the raw data transfer, ALL the files were recovered except for the i Tunes AAC/MP4 files (13gb--I was not pleased). Before I send it off to an expensive data recovery outfit, does anyone know why these files wouldn't recover?

I doubt that anything would have happened on the mac without his specific permission. Unless your friend opened up Disk Utility and altered a whole bunch of settings?
Try connecting the drive to the Mac and right click on the drive and "Get Info" and see how much free space there is. Then, connect it to your PC and check to see how much free space there is. That way, you'll know whether the data has been physically removed from the drive OR if it's just hidden for the time being (for whatever reason).
EDIT: Updated to reflect that I too have Leopard
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Subject says most of it... "10 3.9 - external drive crashes PB when connected by USB or FireWire"
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Alias to External Drive Crashes Finder

I have an alias in my ~/Movies folder that is linked to a folder on my external hard drive. The problem is that sometimes when I follow the alias the Finder quickly crashes and then relaunches. After it has done that it works fine when I try again. I have even tried deleting the alias and creating a symbolic link in zsh but that just gives the same problem.
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I don't know which category I should put this on. I wish somebody can help me.
My friend has an external hard drive - 500 GB, FAT 32. He actually uses a PC. He connected his hard drive to a Macbook Pro (Leopard). After get it back, he found nothing in his hard drive but .trash and .spotlight-V100 as hidden files. However, it still says that he has 450 GB on the hard drive.
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I doubt that anything would have happened on the mac without his specific permission. Unless your friend opened up Disk Utility and altered a whole bunch of settings?
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EDIT: Updated to reflect that I too have Leopard
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Hello - My internal drive was starting to get full so I consolidated and copied all files to an external drive and began to run iTunes from it. Thankfully, I never deleted the files from the internal drive because the external drive crashed taking with it all the files I had imported since switching to using it. I have a new external drive and when attempting to re-consolidate, I receive the error message "Copying music failed. The required file cannot be found." I had hoped to leave iTunes as is and just re-import all the files that had been lost using the songs listed as missing files as a guide to what I need to do over. I have already changed the location for the iTunes folder to the new external drive and have also been unable to re-import missing files from the original music CD. Received a similar error message: "Error occurred while converting the file "*song name*". The required file cannot be found." I read in one thread how there are third party apps that can pull files back from iPod. I think I have iPod set to automatically update once connected. I'm afraid to connect it as I don't want to lose what's there. Is there a way to change the setting without first connecting iPod? Perhaps then I could aquire one of the third party apps to restore library that way? Any suggestions on how to deal with this would be greatly appreciated.
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For all other non purchased content (your own CDs etc) try this method which works on some Windows PCs.
Enable your iPod for disk use.
See: iPod Disk Use.
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Music from iPod to computer (using option 2). This a manual method using "hidden folders" and although it works, it is a little more involved than other methods.
Much easier ways are to use one of the many 3rd party programs that copy music from the iPod to the computer.
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Other free programs are Pod Player, SharePod and Floola.
If you want to recover just the structure of playlists from the iPod (and not the actual song files themselves), there's iRepo for Windows. which I understand has this feature along with all the standard features for these programs.
iPodRip also has the feature enabling you to reconstruct playlists.
There is also CopyTrans. This does preserve ratings/playcounts etc if those are important to you but this program is not free. It also supports video transfer.

Hard Drive Crash - FCP can't read QT files

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NLEdit wrote:
I wonder if DigitalRebellion's FCS maintenance would help this one?
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How do I stop Finder from crashing when I try to view my external drive?

Hello,
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12/27/13 7:04:08.000 PM kernel: SAM Multimedia: READ or WRITE failed, SENSE_KEY = 0x05, ASC = 0x24, ASCQ = 0x00
12/27/13 7:04:08.000 PM kernel: SAM Multimedia: READ or WRITE failed, SENSE_KEY = 0x05, ASC = 0x24, ASCQ = 0x00
12/27/13 7:04:08.000 PM kernel: SAM Multimedia: READ or WRITE failed, SENSE_KEY = 0x05, ASC = 0x24, ASCQ = 0x00
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12/27/13 7:04:08.999 PM WDSecurityHelper: encryptionStatus = 1
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12/27/13 7:04:09.712 PM WDSecurityHelper: mountApproval Called for device disk2s1
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12/27/13 7:04:09.836 PM WDSecurityHelper: processDiskApperance for device disk2s1
12/27/13 7:04:09.837 PM WDSecurityHelper: disk2s1 is not supported...
12/27/13 7:04:09.881 PM fseventsd: could not open <</Volumes/Uzak/.fseventsd/fseventsd-uuid>> (No such file or directory)
12/27/13 7:04:09.882 PM fseventsd: log dir: /Volumes/Uzak/.fseventsd getting new uuid: E6CE571A-E193-4549-94FC-0A76ACCEA37F
Sorry to dump all these lines of code, but if anyone can decipher them for me I'd be extremely grateful...

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My computer crashed. I backed up everything on an external drive. How do I get the backup of itunes and all my music back on my new computer?

My computer crashed. I had everything backed up on an external drive. I have a new computer. How do I get itunes back on my new computere from the external drive?

This question has to do with how to restore your computer drive if you backed up the computer to an external drive. Did you use backup software or did you just copy the data from the old computer to the new computer? If you just copied, then you need to just copy over the Music folder which should contain the iTunes folder.

Cure for crash after creating a RAID group on external drives?

I tried creating a RAID 1 mirror group on a pair of Western Digital Studio LX Firewire-attached 2 TB external drives (new), and Lion crashed with the RAID code on the stack (according to the crash report). The system always crashes the same way if I connect even one of the drives, at boot time or later. The RAID group was of the whole drives, not a pair of partitions. I was using a Mac Mini, but I expect my MacBook, also running Lion, will crash the same way, if I try to attach the drives to repartion them. I suppose I can attach the drives via USB to a Linux box to clobber the partition tables.
Is there a way to set up RAID 1 on Lion which does not lead to an immediate crash?
I have been a happy Mac user, but shipping with RAID 1 being so badly broken is really careless. I expect a lot better.

I set up a mirror raid on two external USB drives, and set to 256k under osx 10.7.5 then got the full melt down
and the same every time i tried to reformat the drives.
I did notice a slight moment of time when opening disk utility before the crash!
The following worked for me.
Start the computer, insert just one of the USB or Firewire drives then open disk utility.
Here is the key point as fast as you can select the drive icon as soon as it appears on the left and hit the erase option
don't worry about the type of format select the t hit the erase button as quickly as you can and again as the prompt comes up are you sure you want to erase the disk.
Then repeat again on the second drive and then start the raid set up over again with blocks set at 128k.
Probably advised to unmount all other drives so you do not accidentally format the wrong drive given this is all about haste.
Really hope this helps and think it through as to how it relates to your set up.

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