gutted.hard drive death
hard drive death
Ive always been pretty anal about backing up twice, but ive just had a harddrive die bdfore my second back up, music and pictures are the most annoying things ive lost on there, I havd the cds, so I can make more mp3s, but I have a feeling ivd lost some family pictures which I wont get back. gutted.
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I'm not antisocial, just anti idiot.
If you use the phase "man up" you have alot to learn.
"Wise men speak because they have something to say, fools, because they have to say something" Plato.
Re: hard drive death
Was it the main hard drive that died?, if so, it maybe possible that you can put it into another machine as a secondary slave drive and still access it.
Re: hard drive death
That's horrible! So sad to hear that. I back up on several things too - but if the timing's wrong, there's nothing you can do.munchh wrote:Ive always been pretty anal about backing up twice, but ive just had a harddrive die bdfore my second back up, music and pictures are the most annoying things ive lost on there, I havd the cds, so I can make more mp3s, but I have a feeling ivd lost some family pictures which I wont get back.
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Hamradioop
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Re: hard drive death
Not to teach you how to suck eggs, there are data recovery firms that may be able to help, but it will be expensive.
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Re: hard drive death
There are also some freeware / software tools that are pretty good as well, depending on what has failed.
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Re: hard drive death
Indeed, I have used Recuva before, supposedly can get data from damaged and formatted drives - https://www.piriform.com/recuvaCougar wrote:There are also some freeware / software tools that are pretty good as well, depending on what has failed.
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Re: hard drive death
If you are happy enough building your own computer look into a raid 1 harddrive config. that way you have to harddrives in your computer which are identical. if one breaks it carries on as normal and you just replace the broken harddrive
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I have downloaded the seagate recovery software, but at the moment it is not even able to see it, so it may be an board fault, which i think means it cannot be fixed, but i also know someone in the buisness so i might be ok, i wont hold my breath, i do like the raid setup idea though and my pc will do that.
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I'm not antisocial, just anti idiot.
If you use the phase "man up" you have alot to learn.
"Wise men speak because they have something to say, fools, because they have to say something" Plato.
I'm not antisocial, just anti idiot.
If you use the phase "man up" you have alot to learn.
"Wise men speak because they have something to say, fools, because they have to say something" Plato.
Re: hard drive death
I've lost lots of things the same way. I am planning (famous last words) on creating a file for all photos that I want to keep and them having them printed whenever Snapfish or Photobucket has an offer on.
I've got loads of things backed up twice but I bet those hard drives won't be around for 20+ years.
FYI, no need to copy CDs, torrents are free and you don't even need a disc drive. Perfectly legal as long as you own the CD/DVD/software. I think of all the hours I spend uploading CDs to my computer when I first bought an iPod all those years ago. Blugh.
I've got loads of things backed up twice but I bet those hard drives won't be around for 20+ years.
FYI, no need to copy CDs, torrents are free and you don't even need a disc drive. Perfectly legal as long as you own the CD/DVD/software. I think of all the hours I spend uploading CDs to my computer when I first bought an iPod all those years ago. Blugh.
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So how would you use it, dangerman? Sounds interesting, but its a complete mystery to me. I like the sound of it tho!dangerman wrote:FYI, no need to copy CDs, torrents are free and you don't even need a disc drive. Perfectly legal as long as you own the CD/DVD/software.