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06/10/2007 10:32:39 PM · #1 |
I have an external 300Gb drive (nearly full, of course!) which suddenly got corrupted as I was copying files to it.
I've tried plugging it into two separate computers. I've tried both USB and Firewire. In all cases, the computer states that the drive either can't be read or is corrupted.
Anyone know of a good place to send the drive to see if they can recover anything from it? Any ideas on what that could cost?
Luckily, none of these are my customer's images. But I do have a ton of other pictures (including my family's pictures) that I really don't want to lose.
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06/10/2007 10:34:39 PM · #2 |
| I had a 120 gb drive go all whack in an enclosure i hooked it up to a computer running xp directly (it was an ide drive) and let scandisk on bootup take care of it recovered alot. |
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06/10/2007 10:37:30 PM · #3 |
| If price is no object and you absolutely want every single file back from the drive: ontrack.com. They can do the recovery remotely. |
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06/10/2007 10:54:41 PM · #4 |
| There are many programs out there to help before going to a company. |
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06/10/2007 11:20:58 PM · #5 |
That sucks.. there's been recent discussion on internal HD here:
//www.dpchallenge.com/forum.php?action=read&FORUM_THREAD_ID=614874
Hope you get your files back.
Nick
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06/10/2007 11:25:33 PM · #6 |
| Nikolai for the record that discussion is a complete failure, this is just corrupted data. |
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06/10/2007 11:32:18 PM · #7 |
| Dang David. I started a thread yesterday, I had the same thing happen to a full 250Gb internal. I just bought a new 500Gb external USB2 / eSATA drive. I also lost about 200 Alamy photos that were ready to submit as well as tons of others that I still had to work. My guess, well over a couple hundred hours of processing and originals ... poof all gone. Best of luck! |
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06/10/2007 11:33:22 PM · #8 |
Originally posted by PhantomEWO:
Dang David. I started a thread yesterday, I had the same thing happen to a full 250Gb internal. I just bought a new 500Gb external USB2 / eSATA drive. I also lost about 200 Alamy photos that were ready to submit as well as tons of others that I still had to work. My guess, well over a couple hundred hours of processing and originals ... poof all gone. Best of luck! |
Your hard drive failed.
His was corrupted different story! |
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06/10/2007 11:41:54 PM · #9 |
Yeah, as far as I can tell, the hard drive is still working, but the directory structure, etc, has become corrupt. I downloaded the ontrack trial software and it's trying to find the file system right now by scanning the drive. It's been going a long time though.... doesn't look promising.
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