Pink Floyd (opening act: mjf's hard drive crashes)

[mjf]

[Came here looking for Floyd talk and don't give a shit about mjf's hard drive or cloud backup suggestions?? then skip to post #41]


Absolutely devastated right now. I plugged my four month old WD My Passport Ultra into my mac today, and boom. None of the computers I've tried will recognize it. When I went to disk utility in mac, it won't let me repair it and says that it is damaged or something. No luck on PC either.

I've got about 2 TB of bootlegs and such I've collected for over 14 years. I kept a backup harddrive, but I had to wipe it this week for another project and fully planned on re-adding the files once I was done. Biggest mistake I've made in awhile.

I just wanted to post this up as a warning. I thought I had my ass pretty well covered here, but clearly not.

Can you guys recommend anywhere to take it to possibly retrieve the files? Like I said, 14 years of bootlegs (add to that pictures, literally every piece of work I've ever done for 8 years of schooling.... ugh). Any help would be appreciate. Fingers crossed they can pull the data.

[Mitch]

That sucks man.

But I think someone who knows how may be able to recover it. But I don't know what to tell you

[mjf]

Originally Posted by Mitch That sucks man. But I think someone who knows how may be able to recover it. But I don't know what to tell you

I'm praying man, I could never replace that collection. Had a 7 year long research project for another hobby on there gone too.

Sorry to bitch I'm just beyond devastated Hopefully it'll work out

[Jack]

Damn. Good luck. Going forward you should invest in Crash Plan or one of those cloud sites.

Does WD have a recovery warranty?

[gweeps]

It's always a bummer when you lose a hard drive. But 2TB worth of information? Damn.

At least you weren't one of those fools who never backed anything up.

Maybe where you bought it from can help?

[Mitch]

Originally Posted by gweeps At least you weren't one of those fools who never backed anything up.

no, but he's one of those fools who deletes his entire backup (sorry milf)

[gweeps]

Originally Posted by Mitch no, but he's one of those fools who deletes his entire backup (sorry milf)

I'll chalk that up to poor timing.

[mjf]

Originally Posted by gweeps It's always a bummer when you lose a hard drive. But 2TB worth of information? Damn. At least you weren't one of those fools who never backed anything up. Maybe where you bought it from can help?

That's a good call buddy, it was Staples and I know they do stuff like this. I'll try them first tomorrow, if not I found a few places that specialize in data recovery but it's going to be several hundred dollars. Honestly though, this music has become priceless to me.

Originally Posted by Jack Damn. Good luck. Going forward you should invest in Crash Plan or one of those cloud sites. Does WD have a recovery warranty?

I haven't checked yet, I figured they'd be more interested in just wiping it and fixing the harddrive. I'm thinking maybe taking it to a company that specializes in data recovery would yield better results. Definitely will cost more money, but as a fellow trader I'm sure you can appreciate how priceless this is to me. Cloud site from now on!

Originally Posted by Mitch no, but he's one of those fools who deletes his entire backup (sorry milf)

I know man. I needed data for work/school for a project and couldn't afford to buy a new HD. In 14 years I never had something like this happen so didn't seem like a big deal. Literally was gonna put it back on sunday :/

Just sucks, like I told ya this was the one thing keeping me studying and pushing through this insane time. On the bright side, I found an old harddrive with approximately 1/8th-1/4th of it but nothing from 2005 onward

[mjf]

Originally Posted by gweeps I'll chalk that up to poor timing.

Besides complaining/moaning, that was why I wanted to make this thread. After 14 years and no problems, I figured what the hell was one week? Ugh. Hopefully someone sees this and either gets off their ass and backs things up or triple checks their stuff

[song41fan]

I haven't kept up in hard drives a lot lately, but you say you tried it in the Mac and then a PC. Drives are usually formatted different for Mac and PC. Have you swapped them before or was this the first time? It could just be a formatting issue if it is powering up.

[mjf]

Originally Posted by song41fan I haven't kept up in hard drives a lot lately, but you say you tried it in the Mac and then a PC. Drives are usually formatted different for Mac and PC. Have you swapped them before or was this the first time? It could just be a formatting issue if it is powering up.

I wish, I changed the format to the universal one when I first got it because I'm constantly switching computers throughout the week. Thanks though, any advice is appreciated guys

[somf4eva]

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[mjf]

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Wow I'm intrigued, has it worked for ya? Thanks man!

[RageATL]

Happened to me years ago and it turned out to be the internal patch cable from the HD to the actual USB port. I went to Frye's, bought a new case, replaced the cable and I was good! If you do that and it still doesn't work, throw it in the freezer for a bit then retry it (if the HD isn't spinning).

[mjf]

FIXED!!!!! Well, so far so good I should say. I downloaded EaseUS. It literally goes through the harddrive and is pulling up every file it can that can be saved. So it'll get around what file I downloaded that pissed it off.

And for the record, I never downloaded porn to this HD to be safe I can't say that for elsewhere, but atleast not this HD

[RageATL]

I never did either but truth is HDs spin and are faulty. Cloud or Flashbis the way to go these days.

[mjf]

Originally Posted by RageATL I never did either but truth is HDs spin and are faulty. Cloud or Flashbis the way to go these days.

It really is. I'm glad you posted the freezer thing, I couldn't believe that when I read it!

Thing was spinning fine. Just some file I downloaded apparently corrupted it so that when I plugged it in, computers would acknowledge it but couldn't read it. Oh well. Gonna hopefully be a lesson well learned after I transfer the files from it (gonna take another 14 hours or some shit)

[roshea999]

Happy for you. That sounds just awful.

[mjf]

I'm definitely getting a new external harddrive tomorrow. You guys got any recommendations? this one looked good - [Only registered users can see links.]

I figure 3 harddrives + cloud and I should be fuckin good damnt

Originally Posted by roshea999 Happy for you. That sounds just awful.

thanks dude, I can breathe again!

[sean52692]

I've got most of my 1 TB HD backed up on my 2 TB one but I definitely need to update my backup.