lacie crash
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- weathabee0
Enter response:I had a 500 gb lacie for 3 months and had about 200 gb of material on it. One day I connected it to another machine to transfer some material and the fucker said it needed to be formatted and I couldn't access my files. I scoured the internet for help and found some data recovery software.
The software I used is called VirtualLab and it's made by a company called BinaryBiz (http://www.binarybiz.com). You may want to give it a shot - the only thing bad about it is their pricing. You have to purchase a quota through an internet connection everytime you want to use the program and it can be quite expensive ($100 for the first gig, $10 for additional gigs, and at some point it goes down to $5/gig). I had some invaluable work I had to save so I went ahead and paid for it (recovered 110 gigs!) You can go ahead and scan the hard drive and even recover a small file in the preview mode before you pay for a full quota.
There is a more affordable program I came across but I never had to use it so I don't know if it's any good. It's called GetDataBack and it runs like $70 or so and you don't have to pay for quotas. It also allows you to scan the drive before you buy - but like I said I can't vouch for it because I didn't use it.
Good luck, I know the feeling and I never want it again. DVD-R's are now my best friends.