Hey guys, its been a while. But I could use some tech advice here. All of a sudden my hard drive stopped working. At first I suspected my Ide-Fix, then my Gayle / IDE port but now I found out with a newly bought a1200 that it is probably the HD itself after all. It's a 120GB IDE Seagate.
When I check it out in HDToolbox it shows up as 'Unknown' with no further Partition information. I really want to get it working again since it contains a lot of data (I have backups but not up to date ones).
Now, I suspect the RDB got damaged somehow. I've used the ReadRDB program from Aminet in the past so I do have a backup of my RDB. But ofcourse I am very hesitant to just overwrite the RDB. What I did try though, is backup the current RDB but then it tells me it 'cannot allocate 10MB+ for RDB'. The RDB file I wanted to restore is just 137kb, how can the RDB have grown that big?
a) Is this huge RDB a symptom of it being faulty?
b) are there any salvaging tools I could try, first? Or something that inspects the RDB?
Any other ideas are welcome.
Edit: Ok I have managed to make a backup of the RDB as it is now (indeed 10MB+ in size), by plugging in the ppc card and providing external power.. such a hassle! But it's done so that should make it a bit safer to restore my old RDB.
