A lesson to be learnt........

[John27]

Re: A lesson to be learnt........

Sorry to hear of your problem, but you have just reminded me I was due a back up on my triple back up system

John

[oldbaldgit]

Re: A lesson to be learnt........

Thanks, Chris.
Yes, I will definitely hang onto it for the future...

Hi OBG

I had the same thing happen to me just a few months ago I,ve tried every avenue possible but I,m being told it needs to go to a company with a "clean room" where the drive can be stripped out and the disk installed into another case and then retrieve the lost files. For this they will charge me £300-£400 plus V A T. I,m going to file the hdd away till the prices drop then try again. Hope this is of some use.

Chris

[2Beers]

Re: A lesson to be learnt........

Thanks, Chris.
Yes, I will definitely hang onto it for the future...

Cant see the prices for data recovery dropping as they have a captive market also if as you say it has the click of death then it may not be possible for them to recover the data also £300-400 seems very reasonable as I have known some charging as much as £600 -700.

[oldbaldgit]

Re: A lesson to be learnt........

I was quoted about £600 but who knows, they may drop in time......hopefully.

Cant see the prices for data recovery dropping as they have a captive market also if as you say it has the click of death then it may not be possible for them to recover the data also £300-400 seems very reasonable as I have known some charging as much as £600 -700.

[David Stallard]

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I got into the habit of storing next to nothing on the PC itself - use it just for work and it stay's rubbish free and pretty quick, I back up all photo's etc to a 3tb external and then back that up to another 'just in case' (NEVER leave them plugged in / connected all the time) and the photo's I really would miss I put on Smugmug who do several backups as well - I'm paying for unlimited storage therefore I may as well make the most of it!

Hope you manage to get some if not all of your work back, it really is a heart wrenching feeling when it happens.

.DAVID.

[oldbaldgit]

Re: A lesson to be learnt........

Thanks David

I got into the habit of storing next to nothing on the PC itself - use it just for work and it stay's rubbish free and pretty quick, I back up all photo's etc to a 3tb external and then back that up to another 'just in case' (NEVER leave them plugged in / connected all the time) and the photo's I really would miss I put on Smugmug who do several backups as well - I'm paying for unlimited storage therefore I may as well make the most of it!

Hope you manage to get some if not all of your work back, it really is a heart wrenching feeling when it happens.

.DAVID.

[Magicmunch]

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Hi, there are plenty of free data recovery programs on the net, EaseUS Data recovery wizard is one,or there are pc shops that will do it fot £50 - 100. but you will probably need to format the hard drive before you can recover anything, having said that if the drive is in RAW format you might not get anything back.

Steve.

[oldbaldgit]

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Steve, I'm no computer expert but doesn't formatting wipe it clean?

[MX5]

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No not really ... data can still easily be recovered from a formatted or fdisk'd drive. When we decomission drives at work (and me at home) I use DBAN (http://www.dban.org/) followed by a lump hammer. The DBAN process took 3 days last time I did a laptop !!

[Magicmunch]

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There is your answer, save me explaining.

[oldbaldgit]

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You learn something everyday.

And nowadays forget twice as much.......

[DeeGee]

Re: A lesson to be learnt........

You have my sympathy. Had a computer harddrive die on me. Luckily my brother managed to get quite a bit back. I have a portable hard drive now, and back up onto another computer. Also load some to flickr (full size)

[oldbaldgit]

Re: A lesson to be learnt........

You have my sympathy. Had a computer harddrive die on me. Luckily my brother managed to get quite a bit back. I have a portable hard drive now, and back up onto another computer. Also load some to flickr (full size)

[Woolley]

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I was always taught there are two types of computer users. Those who back everything up, and those who will one day wish they had. I'm the former, but even then I have nothing offsite.

[Undercrank]

Re: A lesson to be learnt........



It's painful for sure. I had a similar experience several years back. I now have copies in 3 locations and I'm much more ruthless about what gets kept and why. I even have a Hitachi hi-fi unit with a small 40BG hard drive that has my 'best' shots on it.

When you think of the many hours of hard work we put in it's worth the insurance.