🙁 I feel for you George. I do a swap backup with a friend offsite but even then I know I have missed things.
I lost all my ripped music twice in 6 months! But we are in good company. It recently took me over a month to get the server team at work to restore 10GB of files some eejit had accidentally deleted. They hadn't tested a restore so had to work out from scratch how to do it on the setup we are all working with.
Wow, total empathy and words don't cover it. But don't do anything hasty, plan for a recovery. If it's windows and an external drive, chances are its corruption of one copy of the NTFS file system headers. But there is a backup copy automatically stored, so recovery might be possible. Stay cool and take good advice, don't rush.I lost access to the impedance measurements of the previous 5 days, together with anything I had saved the last 10-11 years on a 750GB HD.
I am totally pissed off
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George
HTH
LD
I have tried any remedy trick I found on youtube.
Next action is hammer it, then pour some alcohol over the remains, throw a match and watch the scene
George
I was close to sending it out. Then decided I would look inside. I found this and gave up. Sometimes acceptance is a relief. Easier that finding another matching drive and attempting to swap parts.
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On mine, the visible side is scratch-free.
Easier that finding another matching drive and attempting to swap parts.
Yes. And I don't hear it clicking when it spins. If it's the electronics there is some hope.
George
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There are specialised companies very capable in recovering of what is still there.
Don't try to do it yourself, you do not even have a dust free room to start with.
The smallest dust particle can already lead to a fatal crash.
Hans
Hans is right. Try a pro recovery. And once it's been opened to room air it's only good for a few hours, but that's enough in the right hands.
LD
LD
Yes, thank you.
I'll try to locate a logic board, swap the ROM chip and try my luck to milk the data and copy it to another drive.
Professional data recovery services are quite expensive, I asked. 300Euros minimum.
George
I'll try to locate a logic board, swap the ROM chip and try my luck to milk the data and copy it to another drive.
Professional data recovery services are quite expensive, I asked. 300Euros minimum.
George
Just a thought....once you've had at it, it may no longer be a candidate for pro recovery. Amateur efforts easily cause more damage. You don't have a clean-room, now do you?
300Eu doesn't sound like a lot, given the pain it could relieve. When it comes to the cost of an error like not running backups, that sounds pretty cheap. I've made far more costly errors than that. A cup of coffee down the laptop keyboard, for example.
300Eu doesn't sound like a lot, given the pain it could relieve. When it comes to the cost of an error like not running backups, that sounds pretty cheap. I've made far more costly errors than that. A cup of coffee down the laptop keyboard, for example.
If you are careful and open in a dust free environment its not that bad (I used to work in a disk manufacturing company). Don't leave it open, don't sneeze, but no clicks is a good sign. Get a similar drive from eBay and swap logic cards. You can even find logic cards. They are cheap enough to give a try. You do want to copy the important stuff immediately if its working.
I have had luck restoring lot of drives by removing the PCB and cleaning out the tarnished silver plated contacts underneath.
I just can't believe in this day and age people don't test restores. You don't even know whether you have a viable backup if you don't do a restore. Further, when data gies missing, restoration can be time-critical, that is not the moment to be realizing you don't know how to restore!Back when we used DAT tapes I would move a random file and restore from backup every couple of weeks, just to be sure everything was working right.
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