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| jchung52 |
soo....i turn on my computer this morning and turn on my external harddrive and its not being recognized... i knew i should have done something about this earlier cuz the drive was making clicking noises but ive been busy with stuff.. so about 100 gigs worth of music has been lost, a collection i took much pride in. tunes that u cant find anymore, hidden gems, mixes, sets, fUK. (only good thing is my cd binder has all my tunes from 2007 but still... ) on top of that, about 30 gigs worth of pics has also been lost....(thank god i have facebook and like 90% of my pics are on there) and to add to that...all my school work. i have an exam on monday and i had just finished making some wicked notes going through 150 pages of my txt book. GONE.
I hate my life. |
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| Cosmic Fur |
| Bring it into a computer repair store. They may be able to fix it. |
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| Orko |
If it's making clicking sounds, that sounds like the head/arm is malfunctioning.
A regular computer store will not be able to help you. You would have to take it to a data recovery business. They charge out the ass, but it all depends on how valuble the data is to you.
Another option: buy a good drive, the exact same model, and do a disc swap. You have to open it up, and take the platters out of the old drive, and put them into the new one. It's hard and tricky, but it could save a lot of money if you do it right. |
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| ÖZmözis |
| Yeah definetly sounds like that drive is dying or already dead. Data Recovery is the only way to go, but that costs arm and a leg... |
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| DigiNut |
| How many stories of lost data must people hear before they'll learn to make backups? |
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| Flec |
| quote: | | How many stories of lost data must people hear before they'll learn to make backups? |
ok so ive always tried to back stuff up, multiple internal hdds, partitions, cd-r's and dvdrs and so far everything has failed for me, my cds and dvds degrade soooooooooo quick and hardly ever work right
what is the easiest way to back your data up ( music, videos, pictures, documents etc.... not so much emails and settings for programs) without worrying about whether the data will still be intact when you actually need to salvage it. |
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| smuncky |
| quote: | Originally posted by Flec
ok so ive always tried to back stuff up, multiple internal hdds, partitions, cd-r's and dvdrs and so far everything has failed for me, my cds and dvds degrade soooooooooo quick and hardly ever work right
what is the easiest way to back your data up ( music, videos, pictures, documents etc.... not so much emails and settings for programs) without worrying about whether the data will still be intact when you actually need to salvage it. |
u have to buy better cd/dvd media then. the best for dvds is Taiyo Yuden and verbatim dvd-/+r.
for cd's id assume the same companies produce good quality products. don't go to the local store and buy ritek or ridata. that is crap. |
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| chinamon |
| quote: | Originally posted by smuncky
u have to buy better cd/dvd media then. the best for dvds is Taiyo Yuden and verbatim dvd-/+r.
for cd's id assume the same companies produce good quality products. don't go to the local store and buy ritek or ridata. that is crap. |
i agree that taiyo yuden is top of the line but ive been using ritek/ridata for many years an never had a single problem. no coasters and never burned a disc that couldnt be read years later. |
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| Abercrombie |
| quote: | Originally posted by Orko
If it's making clicking sounds, that sounds like the head/arm is malfunctioning.
A regular computer store will not be able to help you. You would have to take it to a data recovery business. They charge out the ass, but it all depends on how valuble the data is to you.
Another option: buy a good drive, the exact same model, and do a disc swap. You have to open it up, and take the platters out of the old drive, and put them into the new one. It's hard and tricky, but it could save a lot of money if you do it right. |
I swapped a circuit board on a drive where an IC blew, and saved my resumees and all my gold stuff.
Swapping heads on those things are very tricky, and need a lot of time and patience... Alignment must be an issue. |
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| DigiNut |
| quote: | Originally posted by Flec
ok so ive always tried to back stuff up, multiple internal hdds, partitions, cd-r's and dvdrs and so far everything has failed for me, my cds and dvds degrade soooooooooo quick and hardly ever work right
what is the easiest way to back your data up ( music, videos, pictures, documents etc.... not so much emails and settings for programs) without worrying about whether the data will still be intact when you actually need to salvage it. |
Recordable optical media is clearly a poor choice for backups. These types of media are designed with a shelf life of maybe a few years. They're not meant for backups and I believe most even say this explicitly. They're meant mainly for short-term portability.
If you can't afford tapes (and most people can't for their homes) then throw together an uber-cheap server with some big hard drives. Get a gigabit switch, network it with your other computers, and you're set. If you don't trust the hard drives, then set your backup software to verify after backup.
You could technically use another hard drive in the same machine, but it obviously doesn't work so well if you need to back up more than one machine, and you're not protected if the entire box gets fried for some reason.
But I'm assuming that the real reason having an extra internal hard drive didn't work for backup is that you started to fill it up with other things... am I right? |
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| catinthehat |
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If you can't afford tapes (and most people can't for their homes) then throw together an uber-cheap server with some big hard drives. Get a gigabit switch, network it with your other computers, and you're set. If you don't trust the hard drives, then set your backup software to verify after backup.
You could technically use another hard drive in the same machine, but it obviously doesn't work so well if you need to back up more than one machine, and you're not protected if the entire box gets fried for some reason. |
Absolutely. For people like us who have collections of hundreds of gigs of quality music that takes serious time and effort to amass, you HAVE to backup, and the right way. Information storage isnt the cheapest thing, but its pretty cheap when you think about it. just get another hard drive, make a complete copy of your tracks, and consider it musical insurance. |
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