My HTPC drive with all my tv shows and long-term backups went bad. Partition table corrupt or something, won't mount.
Grabbed my backup drive and it looks like this.
Isn't that just lovely. Lost all the shows I've downloaded over the past 20 years, as well as various projects that I have no future use for, but kept as mementos.
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god darn that's just sad man, rip
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sry
it might still be recoverable on your HTPC drive if it's just a partition table not working correctly. Look into file recovery software.
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My go-to was PC Inspector File Recovery but that's literally 20 years old now. This type of thing, like video conversion, is deep in the territory of garbage software that claims to do the exact thing you want, but it doesn't and they want $60
I'm not entirely sure what's wrong with the primary drive. Just says "parameter incorrect" and won't mount
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You should copy your HTPC disk byte for byte onto another disk and then play around with that disk image. It might be as simple as recreating the partition table and everything is still there. If it's properly corrupted you could try something like https://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec
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Ran a chkdsk and it fixed issues with the partition table. It's no longer "invalid parameter" but rather "Access Denied"
If I go into Properties > Security, it says "You must have read permissions". Going to Advanced and selecting that "Replace all child permissions" at the bottom.... it attempts to go through and I can see it applying properties to a ton of files. Random files get 'access denied' throughout the process but I can at least see that the files are supposedly there.
However once it completes, the drive still isn't accessible
edit: Found a Windows 7 PC behind the bedroom tv, used that to add Users and it's finally giving me access. Some of these shows would be hard to find in current_year even if I have no plans on ever actually watching them again.
Now the really fun part of trying to figure out all this darn data i have spread across half a dozen hard drives with no single drive big enough to consolidate it all
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