[Coco] W A R N I N G!!!

[David Gettle]

Another possibility is that a computer virus did this, I had that happen
years ago, the files were just hidden, try changing the window display
attributes to show hidden files, you may be surprised to see everything
re-appear.


On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 1:17 PM Spencer via Coco <coco at maltedmedia.com>
wrote:

>  Yeah all the quirks of OSs and drivers and updates can make us all pull
> our hair out or want to throw a computer across the room.  We've all had
> anomalies and my solution is to use a separate PC for only archives and to
> use cloud storage for some of my hard-to-find software. Most is obtainable,
> but you'll have to put hours, days and sometime weeks to get all the
> software back you've collected/archived.  I also have a listing of all my
> archives (vintage stuff) so if I lose a particular HD I know exactly what I
> lost.  Grandfather, father, and son backups, and in my practices I also use
> great grandfather and great great yada yada.  I'm a REAL eccentric when it
> comes to archives.  Good luck in restoring your software.  I also use an
> old faithful (to me) Acronis to create (span) images and then I back those
> up. ;-).
> Spencer
>     On ‎Thursday‎, ‎September‎ ‎20‎, ‎2018‎ ‎11‎:‎31‎:‎46‎ ‎AM‎ ‎EDT,
> William Astle <lost at l-w.ca> wrote:
>
>  I would be surprised if the docking stations or external connections had
> anything to do with the symptoms you describe.
>
> Files disappearing on a file system while the remainder of the system
> seems intact (directory tree, etc.) is almost certainly due to bugs in
> the operating system itself (device driver or file system driver,
> probably) or yanking a drive before unmounting it properly in the
> operating system. You really do need to unmount drives properly in the
> operating system to make sure all data cached by the OS is actually
> written.
>
> I assume each of these docking stations connect to a single eSATA port?
> If so, those docking stations are almost certainly SATA port
> multipliers. It's possible the driver for the SATA chipset responsible
> for whatever eSATA port you connected the docking station to isn't
> handling the port multiplier correctly, but it seems unlikely.
>
> It's also possible you have a flakey cable somewhere, or a bad docking
> station, which is causing drives to randomly disconnect from the system
> and then reconnect.
>
> In both of those cases, however, I would expect operating system level
> errors to appear, and much more random file system corruption.
>
> On 2018-09-20 12:27 AM, Joe Schutts via Coco wrote:
> > Hi Everyone,
> > While this warning pertains to Windows (and Linux) Based Systems it can
> also pertain to CoCo Users as well, especially if you are using a SATA or
> an IDE HD attached to an external SATA or IDE HD Docking Stations.
> >
> > I have a 2-Port External SATA Docking Station that I use mostly for
> long-term Program and Data storage using mostly 1TB (and up to 4TB) HD's. I
> recently added a 3-Port External Docking Station (1 IDE and 2 SATA Ports)
> to my system.
> >
> > Somewhere between using the 2-Port and the 3-Port Docking Station (I'm
> still trying to figure out WHEN AND WHY this problem occurred) ALL of my
> information disappeared on several HD's. And when I say several HD's, I
> mean OVER 8-10 HD's. I figure I have lost OVER 10-16 TB worth of info. Now
> the weird part is that ALL my Directories (AND my Sub-Directories) are
> STILL there and show up without any problems. The MAJOR problem is that ANY
> Directory (or Sub-Directory) that had ANY info in it, has disappeared...
> It's completely gone...
> >
> > Now I'm afraid to put anything on my HD's (using any external HD Docking
> Station of ANY type) to transfer files to any external HD.  Now I'm pretty
> sure that the info is still there, but the question now becomes "HOW do I
> recover or access my old info?"
> > Something else that enters into this puzzle is the part that ALL of
> these HD's were formatted in NTFS format. So now what program do I use or
> HOW do I recover my lost info???
> >
> > If ANYONE has ANY ideas on how I should proceed AND/OR which program I
> should try to use, PLEASE let me know as I've run out of ideas and VERY
> desperate...
> >
> > I hope this helps and that NO ONE else runs into this problem. I'd hate
> to see anyone else have this problem like me...
> >
> > Take care everyone...
> >
> > Joe...
> >
> >
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