Help! I forgot to Initialize Hard Drive.

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I am kinda freaking out!

I just shot a huge event and offloaded P2 cards twelve times!

I had just bought a new 500 GB and hooked it up to my Powerbook without initializing.

Everything was fine and I came home and even hooked up the drive to my G5 and I saw all the files. Then when I tried re-connexting it, it says that the drive is not recognized and it is asking me if I want to "initialize".

Is there a way I can get my footage off this drive and then initialize? Any help would be appreciated.

Please do not tell me I am completely screwed....:badputer:
 
Well, you spend some money and sendit toa "recovery" shop, or you can buy inexpensive software and so it yourself. The software I have is "GetDataBack" (I'm a PC guy, though). Try Googleing "hard drive recovery" or something like that.
 
I've used 'Disk Warrior' (Alsoft) with some success for media files on external drives talking to my G5. It's much more robust than 'Disk Utility'. There's a download available (I believe) but you definitely want the CD for future rebuild's. Just a thought.......
 
Veej said:
[...] hooked up the drive to my G5 and I saw all the files. Then when I tried re-connexting it, it says that the drive is not recognized and it is asking me if I want to "initialize" [...]
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What happens if you reconnect the hard drive to the PowerBook that you originally used to copy files to the hard drive? If both the PowerBook and G5 fail to mount the drive, see if Disk Utility (in the /Applications/Utilities folder) will mount it. If not, next step would be to run Disk Warrior as fevercity suggests. Just for grin and giggles, try a different FireWire (or USB) cable. If DiskWarrior can't mount the drive... let's not go there yet.
 
99.9 percent of the time drives come formated for the pc and you might be in luck to plug it into a pc and see if you can read your files and transfer them to a different drive. I have seen this done once before with success. Good luck and I hope you save your files. I had the same problem but didn't have anything worth keeping on it and remembered that I hadn't formated to the mac and did so and then it came up properly.

mt
 
Michael T said:
99.9 percent of the time drives come formated for the pc and you might be in luck to plug it into a pc and see if you can read your files and transfer them to a different drive. I have seen this done once before with success. Good luck and I hope you save your files. I had the same problem but didn't have anything worth keeping on it and remembered that I hadn't formated to the mac and did so and then it came up properly.

mt
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I concur....... once on pc should be no problem.
 
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