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So I'm leaving the house today and see my gf's computer with the invalid disk error. Try to reboot, same thing and the hard drive is not sounding healthy. I've told her many times to back up her pictures and I'm sure she hasn't and will want them recovered. I'm sure that will be one of my projects tomorrow. I tried to find the thread to recover data from bad harddrives on ME but the site is gives me a currently unavailable message (Doing something again K?). Anyhow can you guys list some of the recommendations/tools again? Thanks in advance.
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take out the dirve and attach it as a slave on another system. The other system will be able to see it unless there is actual physical damage. Just pray system files were missing and you will be ok.Originally posted by neoeeNo Soup for YouOriginally posted by Miroslav -
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^ ^ Yeah. That'd be the first thing to do. If you can see the drive, and it states there are 0 files and 0 filesize, find a recovery program and scan the drive. You can get virtually any of those recovery programs for free, run them, find the one that works best, and if it's a trial, you'll have to purchase it and use it. Don't worry about the cost, I'm sure those pics are priceless. People will recommend all sorts of programs but they don't always work for everyone's situations. I tried over three dozen programs when my drives crashed due to a bad FireWire driver and luckily for me, I was able to recover over 700GB of music. Phew.Comment
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I think the best program recommended that was floating around before recovery-wise should you be able to use it, was getdataback; there's one for NTFS drives and one for FAT/FAT32.
The fact the hard drive isn't "sounding healthy" as you claim pretty well means it's on its way out...any drive that whirs up and down trying to reach full speed, clicks/chunks trying to access data and makes just a lot of unnecessary noise is either basically dead, or has very little life left on it....
PS; check the warranty on it...probably is out of it, but if it's still within, back/recover the data if you can and RMA it for another one.FM
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^ ^ I'd be careful on RMAing it if you have data on there that isn't quite "legal". I'm not exaggerating. Some people have been known to get in trouble with stuff like that so if you think you have a chance of sending it in for a replacement, and you got illegal programs, files, applications, etc., I'd just chuck it and get a new one.
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Ok so I think I got lucky. I haven't verified yet, I just had the gf grab one of my lab computers and swap it for hers. I didn't notice but there was a disk in the floppy drive. Don't know how it got there. I suspect it was ejected but never removed and somehow got pushed in. The noise at boot up that I mistook for the HD was probably just a very dusty floppy drive (it didn't sound like a normal floppy does else I probably would have noticed earlier). I still have to hook her computer back up to verify but I'm 99% certian thats it.
Well I guess if anything comes out of this my GF will be sure to back her shit up.
Thanks for all the quick replies and useful info everyone.
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dumbass
floppy; go figureFM
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I know amature move on my part, but I didn't even think I had a floppy in my house anymore.Originally posted by FMdumbass
floppy; go figure
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^ ^ That's awesome.
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Mercuryengine is about to be shut down this week because not enough people used it so you need to continue here with Computer problems.Originally posted by neoeeComment
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Damn asshats closing down the only thing that made sense.
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I can run it if you want to administer it, but DAMN that's a scary proposition knowing Beanz is administering something
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I'd love to have it back. It was fun, but yeah, it was way too slow; not enough traffic going on. What a pity. Oh well. It's time to move on and bring on the
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Originally posted by beanzncheez^ ^ I'd be careful on RMAing it if you have data on there that isn't quite "legal". I'm not exaggerating. Some people have been known to get in trouble with stuff like that so if you think you have a chance of sending it in for a replacement, and you got illegal programs, files, applications, etc., I'd just chuck it and get a new one.
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Dude. Think about it. You mean to tell me that that never crossed your mind?Originally posted by Nigel HarknessComment
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