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i've lost my life... hard drive crash stupid piece of $#()*)*#) (pg. 5)
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| mysticalninja |
| you never answerd me... did you try putting the hard drive in another computer and using software like GetDataBack and the likes on it? works like a charm. |
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| Zombie0729 |
| no computer recognizes it in BIOS |
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| Johnny Cache |
| quote: | Originally posted by Zombie0729
no computer recognizes it in BIOS |
this is really, really sad ! |
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| raconteur |
Hey!
It may be possible to recover your files using Symantec Ghost 8.0 solution.
How it works? Find this program and make a ghost boot disk. then connect your old HDD and the second healthy one to the computer. It doesn't matter that the BIOS doesn't see your harddrive: BIOS may get just signal timeout. Now boot the system from ghost boot image. Then you should see menu, from properties mark "CRC Ignore" and Force Cloning", then move to the upper menu and choose copy "Disk to Disk". Choose the source and destination drive and voila: if you're lucky, the cloning process begins. It may take some time ( like a week or even a month :) ) and it will find many bads, but ignore that. When cloning is finished, the new hdd will be the same as your old broken one and may even fix itself during checkdisk (chkdsk -R).
The second opportunity: If the HDD electronics are messed up, then find drive that contains indentical circuit board and try to change that, it's easy. |
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| Mr.Mystery |
I know this probably won't help you but I'll say it anyway...
I suffered the same fate a couple of years back - I had a HD failure (not just any kind of failure, it physically broke apart) and lost absolutely everything I had. I was devastated for a while, but looking back to it now I realise it was a new starting point for me. I had always relied on the same soundsets and samples I had collected and never dared to venture outside of them, but once I had lost them all I had to. And I'm glad I did - I instantly started branching out to things I didn't even think of before.
So, while a loss like this might be an end of something it will also be a start of something completely new. |
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| Luke Terry |
* makes backup
It's been too long since I did this
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| zodiac9 |
| I backed up all my music data the other day, I don't do it often enough. I have several PC's on a network, so I just shoot all my data to another PC. I should be making CD or DVD backups too, maybe I'll get around to that. My FL Studio folder is 11 gigs, that's a lot to backup. I could probably clean house and put some of that on DVD, but it would take a lot of time to sort through all that. |
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| Zombie0729 |
ok... this is GREAT, if at any point you are reading this do as follows:
Hard Drive companies have negotiated terms for their customers with these data recovery places. For instance, my drive that cashed was a Western Digital. Western Digital lists on their website their "preferred HD recovery places"
I had originally sent my drive to one of these companies WITHOUT knowing they were a WD preferred place. Now, i got my quote of $1650 with a $150 "WD Customer" discount. Woopty Doo.
I called in after i got the quote to tell them "i couldn't pay" for that much on a recovery and was only expecting to pay $800-$1000. The guy told me to go thru WD's website and go to their company link THRU the WD website and sign up for a work order. Doing it that way, its only $795.00.
I'm looking online and a bunch of HD manufacturers are doing this, i guess to get the preferred business these companies are being mandated from the HD Manufacturers how much they are aloud to charge us.
SO BEFORE YOU SEND OFF YOUR DRIVE TO ANYONE, YOU SHOULD CHECK YOUR HD MANUFACTURERS WEBSITE FOR REFERRALS FIRST. |
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| music2dance2 |
| excellent. I hope I never have to do that, but good heads up if I do or anyone else does, thats doesnt have a backup. |
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| Lolo |
it happened once here.
While transferring a SATA drive to a fw enclosure, the maxtor drive just died, and I lost all of my sample library.
I don't rely on hard drives anymore, and tend to backup everything more than once.
Fortunately the future looks bright for this kind of issue: SSD drives in a few years, now Time Machine instant-recovery that saves everything on the fly. And also, RAID 1, that syncs any data on a drive with its twin on the fly. |
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| Kid_presentable |
cheers to anthony!
same thing just happend to me but thanks to this thread most of my stuff had been backed up :)
except ive got no kicks left :( anyone know a good sample cd purely for kicks? |
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