lacie crash
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- rabattski0
i'm so not liking the sound of this. this is not good. fuck. i bought the d2 for backing up stuff. now i have to backup the backup? djeez...
- r_gaberz0
how much did you pay derek?
- JamesEngage0
have you trie dkissing your data goodbye?
- versa0
unlike many others, i see no humor here, as i've had anxiety you must be feeling from the same scenario
good news: your data probably isn't lost
bad news: it will cost to get it back
think clearly and methodically, and good luck !
- arthur0
I lost everything on my LaCie three days after getting it. It would just make a clicking sound and never mount or be recognized by anything.
LaCie tech support said it was defective and to try putting it in the freezer! Didn't do a thing, other than get really cold. Piece of shit. Hope you have better luck.
- tGP0
i ran through the exact problem as arthur just said, except mine was about a year old...
word of advice, dont use a drive without backup, either another drive (i use my mac for storage, and just run silverkeeper to archive onto the d2), or fill up a DVD every few weeks, the cost of the media is well worth the insurance...
- waynepixel0
LaCie tech support said it was defective and to try putting it in the freezer! Didn't do a thing, other than get really cold. Piece of shit. Hope you have better luck.
arthur(Mar 21 05, 08:37)
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They where fucking with you, right. Hahahahahah freezer!. WTF
- r_gaberz0
it makes a clicking sound every 5 seconds, but it is recognized by Windows. It just doesn't seem to be formated :/
aren't there any tools I can use?
- mrs_snuggles0
so sorry to hear that. yeah, as mr. snuggles mentioned.. my drive crashed only it was way more than 4G that I lost.. what a ******* mess. definately back up now. everthing went corrupt, ended up shelling out close to a grand and got 4 dvd's (half useless) back. goood luck.
- Leftofsix0
I bought an 80GB LaCie FireWire d2 HD about a year and a half ago. This was my 'backup' drive so I loaded it all up with my work, mp3s etc.etc. 3 days after purchase I got the dreaded 'disk not formatted' error when I turned on my PowerBook. Couldn't believe my eyes, tried connecting, disconnecting, rebooting etc.etc to no avail. Ran DiskWarrior and it choked on the drive and managed to salvage 5GB of 60+ GBs. Lost 3 full projects to that piece of shit. Returned it immediately (pissed off) and got my money back. I'll stick with CD-R/DVD-R backups.
- fowler0
I lost everything on my LaCie 160gig, not due to a crash, but I formatted it on accident.
I tried pretty much all of the data recovery tools on versiontracker, macupdate and download.com. One of them worked, I forget the name, but you gotta pay for however many gigs your restore. It was less than $200. But, getting all my shit back was invaluable.
- tkmeister0
remember these quotes
Anything that can go wrong will go wrong.
If anything just cannot go wrong, it will anyway.
If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously overlooked something.
Everything goes wrong all at once.
- tymeframe0
I lost everything on my LaCie 160gig, not due to a crash, but I formatted it on accident.
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OMG dude!Leftofsix, do you ever fear that DVD-R drives would ever stop being made?
I have ALL my crap backed up on DVD-R, like 15-20 disks. Most PCs are DVD+R and Macs are now DVD-+R. I'm so scared Apple is going to convert one day, which by then I'll probably have like 40 disks to copy and reburn.
I use a LaCie btw, my hands are sweating.
- Solid0
it makes a clicking sound every 5 seconds
r_gaberz
(Mar 21 05, 08:54)-------------
If it's making a clicking sound I would power it down.It could be something similar to this: http://www.dataclinic.co.uk/data…
- ToxicDesign0
Must be going around. My film editor buddy just lost his 500gb Lacie Raid - had to redigitize all his footage again - about 3 weeks of solid work down the tube.
"what make was the drive" I asked.
"Lacie" He said
"Ohh" I said in amazement, thinking that Lacie was supposed to be the Industry's darling and not do things like brake down on you.
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- iamjonas0
sorry to hear about your troubles.
i too have a lacie 250gb(usb 2.0, porche) and i´ve experienced the same -TWICE! first time about a month after i bought it. first a folder went and later the whole disk. i reformat it and try again. 3 days later, drive not formatted...
the second time nothing can be found. but the first time it happened i was able to recover some files with pcinspector.com (free), but that was when only one folder was screwed. when the disk was screwed, i found nothing.
keep us posted on what lacie say! persnoally i think the disk is a metal piece of crap.
- Solid0
Lacie don't do anything special to their products do they? I mean, they basically just take an OEM mechanism from Maxtor/IBM/etc and put it in their "designer" enclosures, right? Or am I missing something .. ?
- sparker0
no..most vendors who make external drives use proprietary firmware and boards.
some are scsi drives mounted in casings, on boards that convert them to the firewire/usb ports...etc.
dunno.
are you on windows? if so, you could try booting into knoppix linux and forcefully mounting the drive via 'mount' at the command line.
i've had to do this before on corrupted windows drivers....
what filesystem did you use?
- rabattski0
aren't we getting a bit too paranoid here? i mean if lacie is that bad, and i mean, based on this thread it seems that every other lacie crashes, why are they still sold? why are people still buying them? why isn't there more online? why aren't there more bad reviews? why are there positive tests? i mean if it's that bad than there for sure should be a dontbuylacieitfuckingsucksfanclu... i have used so many harddrives in my life and, knock on wood, i've never experienced a crash or a click of death. or is the general quality of drives these days utter crap?
- tymeframe0
dunno, but when I was shopping for an external, I searched here. Everyone seemed confidant in the blue light....ie...LaCie.
Maybe I was being fuct with. Either way, I've have my 250 d2 drive almost a year and it's ok....so far.