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Posted by Azz3D on Mar-11-2003 00:17:

[Important] I lost over 10GB worth of MP3s

I know this belongs in the chill room but I'd figured I'd get a better feedback here.

It finally happened. I was messing around with Partition Magic, trying to "add" a few GB to my MP3 partition, and while in the process of doing that I had a power outage. Needless to say, my MP3s became corrupted and inaccessible, but they are still residing on the drive. Should I,

[a] Forget the whole thing, format, and build the MP3 collection from scratch
[b] Try to recover the files using a recovery program

I already tried b, but this gay program I was using is a demo, and refuses to recover anything bigger than 64KB. If you've got a better suggestion, post it here.

Thanks for the feedback guys...

P.S. I had close to 800 MP3s, all 192kbps or above; totalling 10GB+

Posted by Az on Mar-11-2003 00:20:

get a crack for the program

Posted by allstar on Mar-11-2003 00:21:

I don't know much about this but I'd definitely keep trying with B) first.

If you value your collection, you may even wanna buy the recovery tool, or be naughty and get a dodgy version.

10 Gb is alot, I'd hate to see you lose it all!

Posted by Azz3D on Mar-11-2003 00:24:

I tried to [cough]crack[./cough] the program, but it still says it's a demo version... In case you were wondering, name of the program is active @ undelete 2.0.1

Posted by FastFashion on Mar-11-2003 00:28:

*Oucchyy!*

Posted by Azz3D on Mar-11-2003 00:47:

Why would someone make a demo program with such limitations? I'm not going to recover text files for God's sakes... UGHHHH

Posted by Az on Mar-11-2003 00:48:

quote:
Originally posted by Azz3D
Why would someone make a demo program with such limitations? I'm not going to recover text files for God's sakes... UGHHHH

www.chemical-records.co.uk
www.juno.co.uk
www.replayrecords.com
start building your collection again

Posted by Azz3D on Mar-11-2003 00:54:

quote:
Originally posted by Az
www.chemical-records.co.uk
www.juno.co.uk
www.replayrecords.com
start building your collection again

Looks like I'm gonna have to...
I had them all neatly sorted by artist... Oh well. You fall down, you get up and continue. It's life.

Here we go...
1. Svenson and gielen feat. Jan Johnston - Beachbreeze
2. ...

Thanks for the sites man

Posted by INFERNO2K on Mar-11-2003 00:54:

Remember that any data on a harddrive will always be there, everytime you format you're just 'painting' a new layer over the old material on the harddrive if that sector is being written to again.

Try other undeleting programs or even try a Windows System Recovery (if you have WinME/XP)

Posted by Azz3D on Mar-11-2003 00:59:

Someone on the hub has suggested a program for me to try. I'm gonna have to try that out. Nothing's over yet...

Posted by rock_roll18 on Mar-11-2003 00:59:

: -(

gotta say ~~tht does blow
Time to restart ur collection incase u cant recover ur mp3z
Hope u do in btw =)
NEed help re making ur colln...pm me ..hehe

Posted by capricorn15 on Mar-11-2003 02:00:

Re: [Important] I lost over 10GB worth of MP3s

quote:
Originally posted by Azz3D
I know this belongs in the chill room but I'd figured I'd get a better feedback here.

It finally happened. I was messing around with Partition Magic, trying to "add" a few GB to my MP3 partition, and while in the process of doing that I had a power outage. Needless to say, my MP3s became corrupted and inaccessible, but they are still residing on the drive. Should I,

[a] Forget the whole thing, format, and build the MP3 collection from scratch
[b] Try to recover the files using a recovery program

I already tried b, but this gay program I was using is a demo, and refuses to recover anything bigger than 64KB. If you've got a better suggestion, post it here.

Thanks for the feedback guys...

P.S. I had close to 800 MP3s, all 192kbps or above; totalling 10GB+

i have a good idea, get a list of all those mp3s, format the hard drive, get on the hub and re download, about 2 monnths ago i lost abotu 30-40 gigs of music from collecting for 4-5 year, sucks but hey thast life, ya so get on the hub and re download, they should have many of those tunes

Posted by TranceMe on Mar-11-2003 02:07:

i wouldn't erase everything there's gotta be a way...

2 of my hard drives completly burnt out and the repair guy still save d all my mp3s...i dont know with what program though

sorrry...hope it works out..

Posted by twizta on Mar-11-2003 02:13:

i am with you man...my laptop's 30 gigs hardrive went out on me last friday.....all the precious tunes

..meh....but yea..starting from scratch rite now

Posted by Jeb on Mar-11-2003 02:25:

i had a horid drive error on my computer which meant that i had to reformat, i lost 12gigs or so of music and everything else. That was about a year ago, after a long time of ripping and downloading i'm at 32gigs. It definatly sucks to start from scratch.

Posted by Azz3D on Mar-11-2003 03:58:

I just got this recovery program from some dude in the hub. I'll give it a try tomorrow, because one has to scan the drive first, which takes a long time.

Again, everyone thanks for your support

Posted by MoonMan on Mar-11-2003 05:34:

What was the name of the program u dl??? Give me a pm, coz I have the same prob. Cheerz

MoonMan

Posted by victor on Mar-11-2003 05:51:

this is what i do....

everytime i feel that my collection has considerably expanded....

i make a cd backup!!!

lessoned learned or not?

Posted by CygnusX on Mar-11-2003 07:20:

quote:
Originally posted by S2K
I don't know much about this but I'd definitely keep trying with B) first.

I'd also do that.

Good luck and keep us updated!

Posted by capricorn15 on Mar-11-2003 07:29:

quote:
Originally posted by Azz3D
I just got this recovery program from some dude in the hub. I'll give it a try tomorrow, because one has to scan the drive first, which takes a long time.

Again, everyone thanks for your support

say, can you send me that too, my 40 giger full of mp3s coulndt even be formated cuz its fucked to shit,

Posted by arctic on Mar-11-2003 07:58:

quote:
Originally posted by victor
this is what i do....

everytime i feel that my collection has considerably expanded....

i make a cd backup!!!

lessoned learned or not?

This is correct, i back up everything (i have a ot of it on bought cds/some vinyl anyhow), but i back up every downloaded mp3/ogg,.ape on cdr, otherwise i could lose them....dont take the risk, back em up

Posted by DaveT on Mar-11-2003 15:32:

That's nothing...

A couple weeks ago....I was just sitting here using my computer, until my HD started going CLICK-CLICK-CLICK....then my PC locked up....

After that, my D drive, containing over 60gb of mp3s....dead. I could list the files, but not play the files or copy them. My HD would do the whole clicking thing over again and lock up my PC

Took the HD into work to see if it was recoverable...nope

So, 60+gb worth of mp3s.... *sigh*

Thank goodness I had just about all of them backed up. What sucks is that I lost all my more recent live sets and stuff.

Posted by Mr.Mystery on Mar-11-2003 15:37:

Re: [Important] I lost over 10GB worth of MP3s

quote:
Originally posted by Azz3D
I know this belongs in the chill room but I'd figured I'd get a better feedback here.

That's the lamest excuse ever.

Hey, I know - why not post EVERYTHING here from now on... nobody reads the other forums anyway...

Posted by jon on Mar-11-2003 16:05:

well if the program doesnt work you can pay agencies that will do it for you, i think www.seagate.com do one, failing that WHY THE HELL HAVNT YOU MADE ANY BACKUPS????

Posted by Fundamental on Mar-11-2003 16:25:

quote:
Originally posted by Az
www.chemical-records.co.uk
www.juno.co.uk
www.replayrecords.com
start building your collection again

Good point. If you'd just went and bought them in the first place, then you wouldn't have this problem...

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