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- ninjasavant0
I did something similar a little while ago. Twice actually. Once trying to share a drive between a windows and mac machine, once on an opium bender. Anyway, here's what I know from experience.
First. What's done is done. Getting angry now will only cloud your judgement. Take a moment, take a breath, take a nap, just chill.
Second. Offsite data recovery will cost no less than $3000, I've looked into it, talked to people, and that's not guaranteed. Its the most reliable option, but for a price.
Third. Your best bet is to drop a few bucks on a data recovery program. I work for one of the largest software/hardware companies in the world and gave some developer friends of mine the drive to see if they could get in and extract the binary code being that they had done it before once. But it was no use. If you don't have the money, save up. It's your only option. There's no magic fix.
Fourth. There's a chance that your data is gone. Repeat step one and start making plans for what you are going to do from here. Its only stuff. I lost a lot of stuff the first time I crashed a drive, but I survived. Don't lose hope. Good luck.
- brandelec0
what the wise graf said
- scarabin0
the plus side is you'll never do it again
- BonSeff0
experiment with a man and get your 100 bucks
- sparker0
that's not true.
i've lost my email archives like 6 times this year. lol. i always say...i'll write a cron job and backup script tomorrow.
:)
- ninjasavant0
Aw man, now I sound like a biter. I should type faster :)
- scarabin0
i keep my portfolio backed up on my ipod
the shit never leaves my sight
- foreverwhatever0
thank you very much twooh, i hope that i works
- Jaline0
chill on the corner. earn a $100.
k77
(May 13 05, 15:15)haha, you mean 'work' on the corner and you can earn more than $100.
- twooh0
it works man, i've had many many many many problems like that and i managed to get my stuff back everytime.
that, and also Ontrack, work very well.....perhaps ontrack is better.
you can also try and look for torrents via Filelist.org, or other other places, and look for a crack via Astalavista.com.
good luck.
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- beagle0
aw common, 100 dollars is like not even a days salary...
- d-error0
havn't read the hole thing, you have mac or pc? i have software for mac that does the job for you.
let me know
- ribit0
once you've got all that sorted... remember a hard drive can fail anytime... If you value your stuff you should have it in more than one place (external drive? DVD backups?).
- beagle0
its a pc... unless its a mac with windows xp.... or two windows xp for that matter...
- SCarrier110
yeah Ontrack saved my ass once when i deleted the wrong folder one time. very useful.
- skelly0
man, if you didn't back up there's nothing you can do. only some strong whiskey can help you now. yeah it will get worse before it gets better. over the next few weeks/months you will randomly remember certain files and realized they are gone and you will get very pissed every time.
all you can do is learn your lesson and backup. i learned the same lesson when this happened to me -- which reminds me i haven't backed up in a while.
- anzelina0
you still have a bit of work on your website.
download it from your ftp site and there are a few of your prized portfolio pieces right there!
- ********0
It happened for a reason. Now suck it up and get back to work.
And sorry.
- eficks0
well, since windows is reinstalled on the second drive, alot of your stuff is definately gone for good, hopefully mp3s were filled by those sectors/clusters/whatever.