Just curious but can't you get that hard drive repaired and recover at least most of what was on it? That causes me some panicky feelings as I use two external hard drives extensively, and one of them holds all my works in progress. I copy songs back to my fast HD to work on them. I've gotten sloppy about backing up to cd-r as some of these new individual pieces are growing to upwards of a gig each. ____________________ www.psychicreform.com ____________________ "Be who you are... not what's cool." --Chef.
I checked out some data recovery places, and they told me it would be anywhere from $600-$2900. Fuck that. I just busted open the lacie this weekend and inspected everything. I'm just gonna hold on to it now until I can find a cheap way to recover my stuff. $200 down the drain. A dvd burner might be the way to go, Alan. I back up most of my stuff to DVD, but i have projects that are over 4.7Gigs...now I'm so paranoid I'm prolly gonna copy my DVDs 2 or 3 times. Yer Pal, Gel-Sol www.gel-sol.com
Just curious but can't you get that hard drive repaired and recover at least most of what was on it? That causes me some panicky feelings as I use two external hard drives extensively, and one of them holds all my works in progress. I copy songs back to my fast HD to work on them. I've gotten sloppy about backing up to cd-r as some of these new individual pieces are growing to upwards of a gig each.
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mac or pc? there are lots of diy data recovery apps around .. or was it a mechanical failure? On Mon, 22 Nov 2004 10:08:06 -0500 (EST), gel-sol@gel-sol.com <gel-sol@gel-sol.com> wrote:
I checked out some data recovery places, and they told me it would be anywhere from $600-$2900. Fuck that. I just busted open the lacie this weekend and inspected everything. I'm just gonna hold on to it now until I can find a cheap way to recover my stuff. $200 down the drain.
A dvd burner might be the way to go, Alan. I back up most of my stuff to DVD, but i have projects that are over 4.7Gigs...now I'm so paranoid I'm prolly gonna copy my DVDs 2 or 3 times.
Yer Pal, Gel-Sol www.gel-sol.com
Just curious but can't you get that hard drive repaired and recover at least most of what was on it? That causes me some panicky feelings as I use two external hard drives extensively, and one of them holds all my works in progress. I copy songs back to my fast HD to work on them. I've gotten sloppy about backing up to cd-r as some of these new individual pieces are growing to upwards of a gig each.
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Mac...but its a lacie 200 G external. And its a mechanical failure. "Click, click, click." The fucking thing broke less than a day after i bought it. Yer Pal, Gel-Sol
mac or pc? there are lots of diy data recovery apps around .. or was it a mechanical failure?
On Mon, 22 Nov 2004 10:08:06 -0500 (EST), gel-sol@gel-sol.com <gel-sol@gel-sol.com> wrote:
I checked out some data recovery places, and they told me it would be anywhere from $600-$2900. Fuck that. I just busted open the lacie this weekend and inspected everything. I'm just gonna hold on to it now until I can find a cheap way to recover my stuff. $200 down the drain.
A dvd burner might be the way to go, Alan. I back up most of my stuff to DVD, but i have projects that are over 4.7Gigs...now I'm so paranoid I'm prolly gonna copy my DVDs 2 or 3 times.
Yer Pal, Gel-Sol www.gel-sol.com
Just curious but can't you get that hard drive repaired and recover at least most of what was on it? That causes me some panicky feelings as I use two external hard drives extensively, and one of them holds all my works in progress. I copy songs back to my fast HD to work on them. I've gotten sloppy about backing up to cd-r as some of these new individual pieces are growing to upwards of a gig each.
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The best thing to do is buy another identical drive and swap parts. You'll hose the drive this way, but will probably be able to grab what you can off the disks before all the dust, etc ruins the data. -----Original Message----- From: orb-bounces+0rb=bi11i.com@mailman.xmission.com [mailto:orb-bounces+0rb=bi11i.com@mailman.xmission.com] On Behalf Of gel-sol@gel-sol.com Sent: Monday, November 22, 2004 11:06 AM To: Ronald Sansone; What were the skies like when you were young? Subject: Re: [Orb] ot hard drive death Mac...but its a lacie 200 G external. And its a mechanical failure. "Click, click, click." The fucking thing broke less than a day after i bought it. Yer Pal, Gel-Sol
mac or pc? there are lots of diy data recovery apps around .. or was it a mechanical failure?
On Mon, 22 Nov 2004 10:08:06 -0500 (EST), gel-sol@gel-sol.com <gel-sol@gel-sol.com> wrote:
I checked out some data recovery places, and they told me it would be anywhere from $600-$2900. Fuck that. I just busted open the lacie this weekend and inspected everything. I'm just gonna hold on to it now until I can find a cheap way to recover my stuff. $200 down the drain.
A dvd burner might be the way to go, Alan. I back up most of my stuff to DVD, but i have projects that are over 4.7Gigs...now I'm so paranoid I'm prolly gonna copy my DVDs 2 or 3 times.
Yer Pal, Gel-Sol www.gel-sol.com
Just curious but can't you get that hard drive repaired and recover at least most of what was on it? That causes me some panicky feelings as I use two external hard drives extensively, and one of them holds all my works in progress. I copy songs back to my fast HD to work on them. I've gotten sloppy about backing up to cd-r as some of these new individual pieces are growing to upwards of a gig each.
____________________
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____________________
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hmmm...well that sucks. I totally took this drive apart, including the 3 discs that make up the drive...being that you can;t just pull them out real easily, the discs had smudges on them and I tried to wipe them off with a cloth for cleaning eyeglasses....do you think my discs are fucked? I assumed they were roughly like cd's, where you can get dust on them, but you can wipe them off to insure clean playback/files... I was going to buy an identical drive and use the read/write heads from the new drive, but the nature of the way the drive is built doesn't make it easy to keep things perfectly clean. Thanks for all the advice...turns out my bandmate's friend does repairs at the apple store here, so we'll prolly ask him if theres anything we can do. Yer Pal, Gel-Sol www.gel-sol.com
The best thing to do is buy another identical drive and swap parts. You'll hose the drive this way, but will probably be able to grab what you can off the disks before all the dust, etc ruins the data.
-----Original Message----- From: orb-bounces+0rb=bi11i.com@mailman.xmission.com [mailto:orb-bounces+0rb=bi11i.com@mailman.xmission.com] On Behalf Of gel-sol@gel-sol.com Sent: Monday, November 22, 2004 11:06 AM To: Ronald Sansone; What were the skies like when you were young? Subject: Re: [Orb] ot hard drive death
Mac...but its a lacie 200 G external. And its a mechanical failure. "Click, click, click."
The fucking thing broke less than a day after i bought it.
Yer Pal, Gel-Sol
mac or pc? there are lots of diy data recovery apps around .. or was it a mechanical failure?
On Mon, 22 Nov 2004 10:08:06 -0500 (EST), gel-sol@gel-sol.com <gel-sol@gel-sol.com> wrote:
I checked out some data recovery places, and they told me it would be anywhere from $600-$2900. Fuck that. I just busted open the lacie this weekend and inspected everything. I'm just gonna hold on to it now until I can find a cheap way to recover my stuff. $200 down the drain.
A dvd burner might be the way to go, Alan. I back up most of my stuff to DVD, but i have projects that are over 4.7Gigs...now I'm so paranoid I'm prolly gonna copy my DVDs 2 or 3 times.
Yer Pal, Gel-Sol www.gel-sol.com
Just curious but can't you get that hard drive repaired and recover at least most of what was on it? That causes me some panicky feelings as I use two external hard drives extensively, and one of them holds all my works in progress. I copy songs back to my fast HD to work on them. I've gotten sloppy about backing up to cd-r as some of these new individual pieces are growing to upwards of a gig each.
____________________
www.psychicreform.com
____________________
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On 11/22/04 10:06 AM, "gel-sol@gel-sol.com" <gel-sol@gel-sol.com> wrote:
Mac...but its a lacie 200 G external. And its a mechanical failure. "Click, click, click."
The fucking thing broke less than a day after i bought it.
I know it doesn't help you now, but do not EVER buy the Maxtor 200GB drive or the Lacie external 200GB, as that is the drive inside. I had two in a row go South on me, the latest only a few weeks back with the same dreaded click click click. Those drives are CRAP, and my buddy @ Apple confirmed the same fact (they disqualified those drives due to early failure). Apparently that was just a bad drive, and it should be avoided @ all costs. _jason_ _________ ________ _______ _____ ____ ___ __ _ _ _
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