I don't fucking believe this!

[Gatz]

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I lost a 500 Gigs drive last week with about 4000 sets on it with no backup i was in the process of copying them to another drive. Now i have to look at data recovery if i want what was on there.


fook me.

Today i'm proud.

I took that external drive apart plugged it into my p.c as an internal drive and was able to recover 3,701 dj and live sets over 400 gigs of them.

I think i'm gona share some .

[jeffrey collins]

Re: I don't fucking believe this!

i don't know about you guys, but i've had a seagate 250gig external and i'll never buy another seagate product again. This thing is always crapping out on me when trying to add or remove files from this thing.

[feather]

Re: I don't fucking believe this!

Today i'm proud.

I took that external drive apart plugged it into my p.c as an internal drive and was able to recover 3,701 dj and live sets over 400 gigs of them.

I think i'm gona share some .

How did you recover them? The hdd just happen to work internally?

[Dhar_2]

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^ lucky git!!!

[Gatz]

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How did you recover them? The hdd just happen to work internally?

Those usb external drives are just internal drives fitted with a power cord and a usb 2 plugin.
So basically i took the drive itself connected the power and other cable to the drive the pin setting was already set as a secondary drive.
Another fact is that my drive was not spinning either after the crash i think it was caused by a power outage i had at my place this probably caused a cicuit problem on the usb drive.

Anyway it worked as an internal drive i just copied everything to a new drive i had purchased.

[Dhar_2]

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but the drive worked magically on its own!!

was it fucked before/? like feathers?

[Gatz]

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but the drive worked magically on its own!!

was it fucked before/? like feathers?

I updated my post above yours. But yes it was fucked like feathers hdd.

[ganjamo]

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I got this 750GB external HD running 24/7 that gives me nightmares... it fails writing some times also, fkn annoying

[WilDFire]

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Hey guys - I remembered this threat from a while back because my Macbook hard drive dies (under a fucking year old! Has left the house exactly ONCE) and it has a year's worth of pictures from my son on it. Called that data recovery places and I will be goddamned if I have to pay 800-2000 dollars to get my pics back. Biggest irony of all? Backup drive was in the mail.

SO - this brings me to a related but different question - do you guys just leave your computers running all the time or shut them off at night? An old tech support guy told me that the heating/cooling cycle was thought to age the drives faster, but he always shuts his shit down.

What do you guys do?

And thanks for all the help for data recovery - hope I can do it.

[poults]

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I always shut my computer off overnight unless i leave it down loading something.
I did read somewhere that the bigger the HD, the bigger the risk of failure which seems to be the current trend here. Iv got a couple 300gb drives which have been fine for ages.

[Dhar_2]

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^ so its not the size, its what u do with it???!!!

inferiority complex!!!

[Kamal]

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get an old pc, strip out the internals, use dual gigabit cards (saw some for like $16 on newegg), setup windows 2000 / 2003 in raid5 and dump all your old HDs in them.

you may need to get a new mobo that has 6 - 8 S-ATA plugs but thats probably where your exp will end.

or just go out and buy a drobo.

[Gatz]

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SO - this brings me to a related but different question - do you guys just leave your computers running all the time or shut them off at night? An old tech support guy told me that the heating/cooling cycle was thought to age the drives faster, but he always shuts his shit down.

What do you guys do?

And thanks for all the help for data recovery - hope I can do it.

My p.c is up 24 hours a day all the time BUT i plug everything into those antisurge power bars in case of power failures.

[feather]

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Heat is always a major cause in their breakdown. I wouldn't leave the external drives running if I don't need them. And these days I'm looking at external enclosures with fans. But if the enclosures are badly designed, you're still fucked anyway.

[liquidsky]

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Yeah i back everything up on a 2nd Hardrive

backup to a drive I never leave plugged in - only for backup from my 2nd hard drive that has all my data files on it