Comments on: When hard drives go bad… http://www.seattlekarma.com/2008/05/28/when-hard-drives-go-bad/ Perspectives on life from the Pacific Northwest... Mon, 01 Feb 2010 19:46:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Mike K http://www.seattlekarma.com/2008/05/28/when-hard-drives-go-bad/comment-page-1/#comment-114 Mike K Thu, 10 Jul 2008 00:03:42 +0000 http://seattlekarma.wordpress.com/?p=84#comment-114 Bill, sorry to hear you lost your drive, but really, really glad to hear you got your pictures back. That's really the big thing, isn't it? I didn't care about the rest of my drive, except the pictures. It's funny how you take backup REAL seriously once the worst finally happens to you. ;-) Matthew, I believe Ontrack did exactly that (in a "clean room", dust-free environment). They were able to send me file samples, and the problem with filling in data is that the resulting file is still pretty useless, when you're talking about a large graphics file, anyway. I do still have the drive, I'm keeping it on the offchance I run across a miracle solution some day and can recover the drive 100%. I still ended up losing a small amount of pictures, and several long video files, that are pretty important to me. Bill, sorry to hear you lost your drive, but really, really glad to hear you got your pictures back. That’s really the big thing, isn’t it? I didn’t care about the rest of my drive, except the pictures. It’s funny how you take backup REAL seriously once the worst finally happens to you. ;-)

Matthew, I believe Ontrack did exactly that (in a “clean room”, dust-free environment). They were able to send me file samples, and the problem with filling in data is that the resulting file is still pretty useless, when you’re talking about a large graphics file, anyway. I do still have the drive, I’m keeping it on the offchance I run across a miracle solution some day and can recover the drive 100%. I still ended up losing a small amount of pictures, and several long video files, that are pretty important to me.

]]> By: Matthew http://www.seattlekarma.com/2008/05/28/when-hard-drives-go-bad/comment-page-1/#comment-113 Matthew Sat, 05 Jul 2008 00:00:25 +0000 http://seattlekarma.wordpress.com/?p=84#comment-113 Yah this basically just happened to me, however I can just replace the heads, dump the drive to an image file and use software to rebuild my RAID partition table with or without the data in some places. You still have your drives? Yah this basically just happened to me, however I can just replace the heads, dump the drive to an image file and use software to rebuild my RAID partition table with or without the data in some places. You still have your drives?

]]> By: BillB http://www.seattlekarma.com/2008/05/28/when-hard-drives-go-bad/comment-page-1/#comment-112 BillB Thu, 03 Jul 2008 15:32:56 +0000 http://seattlekarma.wordpress.com/?p=84#comment-112 I lost my main data drive a couple of months ago. 4000+ photos, most of them shot in RAW, gone. I pulled the drive and let it cool down, then reinstalled it. I was able to drag off the photo directory before it died again for good. On my Mac Pro I now have a couple of backups working. I use Time Machine to a 500gig external drive. Then I purchased 2 new 500gig drives. All my photos go on one, and a program I purchased called "SuperDuper" runs a full copy from one to the other every night. In this way my data drive is backed up to 2 places, one internal, one external. I also have portions of my OS drive backed up to Time Machine, but most of it is easily replaceable by re-installing. I lost my main data drive a couple of months ago. 4000+ photos, most of them shot in RAW, gone.

I pulled the drive and let it cool down, then reinstalled it. I was able to drag off the photo directory before it died again for good.

On my Mac Pro I now have a couple of backups working. I use Time Machine to a 500gig external drive. Then I purchased 2 new 500gig drives. All my photos go on one, and a program I purchased called “SuperDuper” runs a full copy from one to the other every night.

In this way my data drive is backed up to 2 places, one internal, one external. I also have portions of my OS drive backed up to Time Machine, but most of it is easily replaceable by re-installing.

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