I've been editing in Premiere recently to a Maxtor 40gig additional hard-drive. The drive itself has been acting fine until today - although I haven't had it long. Playback was stuttery for preview, both audio and visual, a message occasionally told me it could not write to the D: drive and eventually the screen froze. On restarting the PC the computer did not recognise my maxtor hard drive. After checking the cables inside the PC I tried again and this time the hard drive was recognised but was showing as 'full' in properties and I was prompted to reformat the drive. Luckily I held off as I'm in the middle of a project and don't want to lose everything and lo and behold 3 hours later when I return from the pub I turn on the PC and up pops my hard drive, stored files and all. Everything seems back to normal. What is going on?? Have I done something inherently wrong when installing my drive or is Premiere duff ? I swear next time I'll buy Apple.
quote:Originally posted by Gordonjcoe:
I've been editing in Premiere recently to a Maxtor 40gig additional hard-drive. The drive itself has been acting fine until today - although I haven't had it long. Playback was stuttery for preview, both audio and visual, a message occasionally told me it could not write to the D: drive and eventually the screen froze. On restarting the PC the computer did not recognise my maxtor hard drive. After checking the cables inside the PC I tried again and this time the hard drive was recognised but was showing as 'full' in properties and I was prompted to reformat the drive. Luckily I held off as I'm in the middle of a project and don't want to lose everything and lo and behold 3 hours later when I return from the pub I turn on the PC and up pops my hard drive, stored files and all. Everything seems back to normal. What is going on?? Have I done something inherently wrong when installing my drive or is Premiere duff ? I swear next time I'll buy Apple.
In my experience your drive is on it's way out.
Maxtor's site have a test program to determine the life left in the drive , download it and run it.
I lost an 18GB drive last year which started doing what yours is doing and which i could only save 13GB of data off because the drive only stayed alive for about 5-10 minutes at a time. I got it replaced by gateway under my computer warrantee.
Don’t use the drive more than you have too until it’s been checked and then backup the data as soon as possible
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Gary MacKenzie
Audio Visual Technician
(email me if you want a quick reply)
Use Maxtor's MAXDIAG program from their site to test the disk. Don't use the last of the three test options while you have valuable data on the disk - it writed to every sector and does some sort of low level format. I had a MAxtor which gave errors and this last option recovered it and it's still working fine.
If you get any error messages make a note of them and contact Maxtor in Dublin. If the disk is less than 3 years old they'll take a Visa number and replace the disk by overnight courier. You then have about a month to send the faulty one back or they'll charge your card.
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Good Luck
Cliff
CMac Video Wedding Videos in Northern Ireland.