Vista Vista !!! I don’t know how many people are facing problems during upgrading there system with Vista. But I should not have upgraded my system with that. I’ve had my karma about 6 months, initially I had a few problems with it freezing etc but nothing major. Then last week it crashed and then froze on the rebuilding database screen when I turned it back on. I’ve finally got it on now but everything is gone. The thing is that it still says that there’s 12gb being used when I go to 'about rio karma'. Does anyone know of any way to salvage the music on there because following the recent death of my hard drive, all my music was on the rio (I never got around to putting it back on the pc). I’ve tried rio taxi and riorad explorer, both to no avail. If anyone has any ideas id really appreciate it, since there was some really rare tracks on there.

are you trying to get this off of the dead hard drive? You could try freezing the hard drive for like 24 hours and then try to recover any info on that dead one. AMD Athlon 64 X2 4600+ OC 2.7ghz 2GB Dual Channel DDR 3200 Nvidia 7900GT SATA II 2x 300gig 7200rpm 16mb cache RAID-0+1 Gigabyte Nforce 4 SLI

y dont u attach the HDD to another computer and just copy it all over, orrr you can try partitioning the drive install windows on it and see if it will see the old partition (music one) i dunno its worth a try :) PC: CPU: Athlon 64 3200+ RAM: 1GB DDR 400 HDD: 20GB ex wont give me back my 250 :S GPU: Geforce 6150 Laptop: CPU: Turion 64 x2 Tl-50 RAM: 2GB DDR2 HDD: 160GB GPU: Mo x1600

cobra_r: An old suggestion (mostly a last chance attempt) that is not followed by enough details. chundel: A very good suggestion followed by a very bad one. Any writing or partitioning will greatly reduce the chance of recovering any data. Copying in another system requires enough empty space to copy all the data in one session. Many times you will get only one chance to copy. The system with the empty space also has to have an operating system that can read the bad drive.

well sometimes its just bad clustered or what not if u partition and clean up the new partition part and do what i said i would belive it would work also he would need a large HDD whi ch i dont know if he does or not i have a 250GB and have it partitioned with Windows 2000 xD in case something like this does happen and u can never go wrong with having Win 2k as a backup no matter how ugly it is... lol PC: CPU: Athlon 64 3200+ RAM: 1GB DDR 400 HDD: 20GB ex wont give me back my 250 :S GPU: Geforce 6150 Laptop: CPU: Turion 64 x2 Tl-50 RAM: 2GB DDR2 HDD: 160GB GPU: Mo x1600

The problem is that the file allocation table (of sorts) is corrupted. Things like this can happen to any hard drive device, so to fix it, you must treat the karma as an external hard drive and proceed from there. Connect the karma to your pc with the usb cable so that windows will recognize it as a device (assigning it a drive letter) and you can access it through my computer. If you can't access it through my computer, then use [[start>settings>control panel>administrative tools>computer management]]. Use the disk management tool to find the karma and give it a drive letter. Then you should run data recovery software on that drive. The software will ignore the file allocation table and read through your hard drive sector by sector to determine what is actually on the disk. One data recovery software that I am using is by a SalvageData Labs. Yes, you have to purchase salvage software (or acquire it by some means), But it?s a nice software I am sure you get your data back.