[Transit]

I have one MAJOR problem!!
I recently purchased an new 200 GB HD to function as an audio drive for my Mac G4 933Mhz. I have had it for 2 weeks now and it has been fine unil 2 days ago. I went to open a Pro Tools session (5.3.1 on OS 9.2), and it said files were missing. I searched the hard drive and it found nothing, but I could see the audio files in the audio files folder that they should be in. I tried to manually select the file, and it gave me the error "*file* is of an unknown type."

It has progressivly gotten worse over the past 2 days. When i first noticed the problem, only 2 songs were affected, but now I have over half the songs on the drive affected.

I ran Norton Antivirus on all the HD's on the computer, and it came back with no virus, and the computer is not connected to the internet.

I also have ran DiskWarrior, and Disk Doctor. Disk Doctor reported a major problem in the header block, and that the files that Pro Tools can't open have damaged resource forks.


Details on the setup
Mac G4 933Mhz
1024 Ram
60 GB system Drive
200 GB internal Audio drive
60 GB external Backup Audio Drive

I have backed up all of the sessions and audio to my backup drive, but they are the damaged files. i just wanted to ensure that i wouldn't loose any more. I tried to open the session from both the system drive and the external, and they both gave me the same problem

I don't know what else to do. Is there a way of rebuilding/repairing the resource fork.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated

I posted a .sit file containing one of the affected files
http://www.transitstudios.net/Horn 1_06.sit

[Developer]

You will have to return that hard disk as long as it's still under guarantee.

You might be able to restore some of the lost information in the resource forks with the help of the SD II format specification:

http://www.crucial-systems.com/code/..._specification

using something like ResEdit or Resourcerer.

But I doubt it.

[Xeo]

You say you have a Mac 933. Does that mean you have a Power Mac Quicksilver? I don't remember for certain, but I'm thinking they might suffer from the hardware limitation of supporting only <128 GB drives. If your drive is being recognized at the full 200 GB, then this must not be the case. However, I would try to find more information about Quicksilvers and their support of large drives, and find out if there are any other reports of data loss. You might have to get a PCI ATA card if that does turn out to be the problem.

[Transit]

i checked with apple before i bought the drive. I was told it was fully supported, and it does show more than 120GB of space.


Developer.

I do not know much about ResEdit or Resource forks in general. You'll have to explain it step by step, or is this something i should leave up to the professionals. i am a quick learner, and i would like to learn


I am not worried so much about the drive right now, its the data that is important. it represents 2 weeks worth of work, and i will be out a fair chunk of time and money, if i loose it