Connecting a UFS harddisk

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Holger Beuttler

Dear all,

I've the following problem but I'm not shure whether this is the correct
group or not:
I had a problem with my hard disk recorder from Pioneer. I found a method in
the internet how to recover the data from the disk. I installed the demo of
the needed software (UFS explorer) and tried to connect the hard disk from
the recorder wirth my PC (Windows XP Home).
According to the interent I should see now the data on the disk with that
software but I can't because Windows found that disk but for a reason I
don't know it does not allow any connection.

Greetings
Holger
 
I tried both the Explorer where I, of course, didn't see anything and from
the UFS explorer where I could only found my computer's hard drive.
In the "Gerätemanager" (I think this is called "device manager" in the
English Windows) I was able to find an entry for my USB drive I use to
connect the hard drive with my PC. And Windows gave me also the message that
a new drive was found but it was not possible to access either in the
windows Explorer nor in the UFS explorer.
 
philo said:
Have a look in disk management

if it's not there, the drive is either defective or else mis-connected
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Where can I find this function? In the system control?
 
I had a problem with my hard disk recorder from Pioneer. I found a method in
the internet how to recover the data from the disk. I installed the demo of
the needed software (UFS explorer) and tried to connect the hard disk from
the recorder wirth my PC (Windows XP Home).
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I haven't tried it myself, but maybe
http://ufs2tools.sourceforge.net/ offers some help.
(That is read only, but that's all you need, I guess.)
 
Holger said:
Where can I find this function? In the system control?
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Lets back up here a moment...

Is the drive an IDE/ATA drive?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_ATA

is the drive even recognized in the BIOS

check that first.

If your bios is set to AUTO it should of course be automatically detected.

If it's not detected there it's either jumpered wrong or else
completely defective.


If the drive is detected ok in the bios

then here is how to use disk management

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/309000


Note: Be sure to do *nothing* with the drive other than seeing if it's
recognized
 
kony said:
It might help if we knew exactly what product this is,
possibly a link to the manufacturer's webpage for it or a
web review of it?

What "problem" did you have with it?

If the problem is that it had failed to function properly,
using a different software may not make a difference, the
data may still be unretrievable or corrupt.
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The recorder is a Pioneer DVR-520H
(http://www.pioneer.de/de/products/archive/DVR-520H-S/index.html sorry it's
German. I couldn't find the coresponding English page but this should help
also).
The problem was, that during the starting process of this recorder a power
failure took place. When I started the recorder again a message that a hard
disk error occured was shown on the screen and unfortunately the hard disk
was reseted so that it could be only used again after resetting it. I did
the procedure and this formatized my hard disk. The I looked up in the
internet and found that Pioneer's file systems is a UFS2 and deleted files
could be restored with this UFS explorer.
So I think there is no hardware problem because the recorder itself could
access the hard disk without any problems.
 
Thanks I will try the software also, but the first problem to solve is that
my PC can see an additional hard disk.
 
philo said:
Lets back up here a moment...

Is the drive an IDE/ATA drive?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_ATA

is the drive even recognized in the BIOS

check that first.

If your bios is set to AUTO it should of course be automatically detected.

If it's not detected there it's either jumpered wrong or else
completely defective.


If the drive is detected ok in the bios

then here is how to use disk management

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/309000


Note: Be sure to do *nothing* with the drive other than seeing if it's
recognized
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Thanks a lot for your help. I will check all this stuff.
 
Holger said:
Thanks a lot for your help. I will check all this stuff.
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OK

if you can get your PC to "see" the drive in disk management

there is hope that your utility can recover your lost data
 
Thanks a lot for your hints. The UFS explorer can restore lost files. So
there is a hope for me.
 
Thanks for your help. I'm very buzy today but I will try it tomorrow and
report than again if I need more help.
 
Holger said:
Thanks for your help. I'm very buzy today but I will try it tomorrow and
report than again if I need more help.
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Please let us know what your results are


thanks
 
philo said:
Please let us know what your results are


thanks
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I checked the BIOS anf found no possibility to add a new drive (maybe that's
because my compiuter is a notebook). So there is also no drive beside the
hard disk in the disk management. But I connected the external drive via USB
and I thought that there is no need to change anything in the BIOS (like a
memory stick). And, as I mentioned before, I can see the USB drive in the
control panell (Hardware). So it can be detected but for a reason I don't
know all other software I have can't detect it. I will try this on a second
PC maybe thats a problem of my notebook.
 
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