Prestiege lock-up loop

[qualityfilmvideo]

Hello all, I hope you can help.
I have been editing on a project using OS 4.1. My Prestiege locked up and gave me the red box, then shut off, came back on , gave me the message that I did not turn off properly, and then gave me a message that the project was being restored from an earlier version.
The big problem is that every time I try to do anything like delete any scenes from the image bin, or even try to change projects, the whole sequence starts again. I can not do anything to break the loop.
I finally unplugged the unit. When I start it again the same thing.
I unplugged again and installed another drive I had in a sled and that drive seems to be fine.
How can I save my project and materials on the first drive that has the locking-up problem?
Did having too many scenes in the scene bin at the bottom couse this problem?
I am near finishing on a 70 minute project, and don't want to loose everything!
Any help is appreciated !

[Jeanton]

Hi

If you can you could try to back up to DV tape so you might save alot of editing afterwards.Have a look at at the treat of no sound from Lex viewtopic.php?f=14&t=1422 near yours it is not the same problem but there are some other suggestions that might help you aswell.

[TimKennelly]

Agreed, take your Project out to DV tape immediately if that is possible.

Try creating a Scene of your Storyboard, take it to Clipboard, then switch to the Record menu and back prior to trying to switch Projects.

You can try doing a non-destructive install with a 4.1 OS CD or Smart Media Card.

If none of those work you have probably lost everything to a catastrophic corruption of the OS.

Live and learn, you should continually archive any significant editing.

With a Prestige and 4.1 this would be limited to DV tape and Disk Transfer for catastrophic archive protection and by creating Scenes of any significant editing and using Clipboard to put these in a Project you maintain strictly for back up in case you get the less catastrophic Project corruption.