I am in a horrible mood! Harddrive crashed and lost 3 years of work!!! - GoFuckYourself.com

Rob · 02-04-2005, 03:45 PM

I need cheering up, please! I just told myself 2 weeks ago that I needed to back it up and procrastinated. 200gigs of designs. GONE!

Post funny pictures or movies to cheer me up! I really need you guys on this one!

MattO · 02-04-2005, 03:46 PM

There are ways of getting your data how bad is the crash?

DirtyDanza · 02-04-2005, 03:47 PM

thast why I rock 2 hardrives in each of my 6 computers... master=programs
slave=data.. bro hardrives are only 100 bucks or join http://www.danzabucks.com and send 20 sales I will buy you one plus your recurring payment

Rob · 02-04-2005, 03:48 PM

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Originally Posted by MattO

There are ways of getting your data how bad is the crash?

I have some guys to come in to look at it for a whopping $125 and hour. I ran Norton's disk doctor on it and it had quite a few bad sectors. When I slaved it to another system it would crash the boot sequence.

boneprone · 02-04-2005, 03:49 PM

take a step back and take the weekend off.
try to relax..

sucks i know.. its happened to me before too

Rob · 02-04-2005, 03:49 PM

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Originally Posted by Dirty_DS

thast why I rock 2 hardrives in each of my 6 computers... master=programs
slave=data.. bro hardrives are only 100 bucks or join http://www.danzabucks.com and send 20 sales I will buy you one plus your recurring payment

Lol, it's not the cost of the drives that's pissing me off, it's the data that was on it.

BigWebRev · 02-04-2005, 03:49 PM

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Originally Posted by HighOnAcid

I have some guys to come in to look at it for a whopping $125 and hour. I ran Norton's disk doctor on it and it had quite a few bad sectors. When I slaved it to another system it would crash the boot sequence.

sucks to hear man....

dready · 02-04-2005, 03:50 PM

Data can be recovered in a lot of cases.

Jayo · 02-04-2005, 03:51 PM

sorry to hear that.. you need to start making backups!

MattO · 02-04-2005, 03:54 PM

damn, well there are some programs, albiet expensive, that can pull the raw data off drives that are shitted up, and try to put it all back together. I had a drive that I thought was completely destroyed, no boot sector, bad sectors. I managed to get most of the stuff off, although there are many files that didn't get put together correctly, it saved enough to not be a complete loss.

Buddah00 · 02-04-2005, 03:58 PM

I feel for you, it happened to me over the summer. Techs couldn't recover anything. Hopefully you will have better luck than I did.

BIGTYMER · 02-04-2005, 03:59 PM

I'm sorry to read that man..

Ironhorse · 02-04-2005, 04:04 PM

Oh man, exact same thing happened to me last year. If it's any consolation, it gave me a chance to start things fresh, of course it dulled my productivity and from time to time I miss certain files.

NinjaSteve · 02-04-2005, 04:06 PM

That sucks. Backing up your work sucks too because it's easy to forget. I'm sure there are automatic solutions out there but those suck too because you forget about those too.

flashfire · 02-04-2005, 04:19 PM

that sucks, I usually backup to dvd...thats not bulletproof either though

Rob · 02-04-2005, 04:52 PM

I just got off the phone with my computer guy and he said that a majority of the data is salvagable so I'm feeling a little better now. Phew!

I tell you what, it's like Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless mind!

skillfull · 02-04-2005, 04:54 PM

relax and watch that ass in my sig :P

Scott McD · 02-04-2005, 04:55 PM

I think your sig might be too big...

MandyBlake · 02-04-2005, 05:20 PM

i was gonna say...you don't back up your stuff???

DerekT · 02-04-2005, 08:35 PM

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Originally Posted by skillfull

relax and watch that ass in my sig :P

That pic is hypnotic.

sickkittens · 02-04-2005, 08:36 PM

That sucks.

I've lost stuff after telling myself to save it. Sorry, man.

sickkittens · 02-04-2005, 08:37 PM

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Originally Posted by DerekT

That pic is hypnotic.

The one with the Asian kid is funny.

maddox · 02-04-2005, 08:42 PM

take your drive and go to a professional data recovering company, they can do magic

xclusive · 02-04-2005, 08:46 PM

glad to see it working out for you man the majority of the time the data is still there so don't worry. But back up more often.

ChewbaCreative · 02-04-2005, 08:54 PM

man, life is go on - you'll make new and more creative works!

wdforty · 02-04-2005, 09:17 PM

Honestly sorry to hear that bro. I now am backing up (for the first time ever) right now, so thank you.

arnette · 02-04-2005, 09:56 PM

Same thing happened to me last week, i lost a 200gig hard drive. I tested out over 10 pieces of recovery software, most were useless, but i bought these two, and while they couldnt get back everything, they did pretty well.

www.restorer2000.com
http://www.quetek.com/

download the trials of them and test them out, they were by far the best 2 programs i found

pxxx · 02-04-2005, 09:59 PM

Damn. that has got to suck. Sorry to hear that man.

sickkittens · 02-04-2005, 10:02 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by HighOnAcid

I just got off the phone with my computer guy and he said that a majority of the data is salvagable so I'm feeling a little better now. Phew!

I tell you what, it's like Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless mind!

Good deal. I remember losing term papers a day or so before they were due back in college.

RedShoe · 02-04-2005, 10:03 PM

dude, I had one crash real bad and none of those data recovery people could do it. They told me about high end hardcore data recovery people that literally pull the drive apart in a "clean room" and place all the internal disks one a large table and read each disk individually. It takes like a week to do. The date comes off very slow and is reconstructed on a new HD.

Starting cost is 2K.

Instead of doing that I invested in a 1.5 Terabyte RAID setup.

Bottom line is, no one will know how fucked that drive is until they look at it.

Cheer up, it could be worse... you could be dickless.

sumphatpimp · 02-04-2005, 10:10 PM

after you get all this squared away get an external drive and make your backups to that. saved my ass a week ago when a drive on my machine went.
also make a CD to boot up from so you can back into the machine if the boot sectoe goes bad.
make sure your bios is set to boot from CD first then harddrive.

02-04-2005, 03:45 PM	#1
Rob I'm a great bowler. Industry Role: Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Right Outside of Normal. Posts: 13,309	I am in a horrible mood! Harddrive crashed and lost 3 years of work!!! I need cheering up, please! I just told myself 2 weeks ago that I needed to back it up and procrastinated. 200gigs of designs. GONE! Post funny pictures or movies to cheer me up! I really need you guys on this one! __________________

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MattO The O is for Oohhh Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: AUSTIN TEJAS Posts: 10,861	damn, well there are some programs, albiet expensive, that can pull the raw data off drives that are shitted up, and try to put it all back together. I had a drive that I thought was completely destroyed, no boot sector, bad sectors. I managed to get most of the stuff off, although there are many files that didn't get put together correctly, it saved enough to not be a complete loss.

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flashfire ICQ 1 6 7 8 5 3 4 9 2 Join Date: Feb 2003 Posts: 13,098	that sucks, I usually backup to dvd...thats not bulletproof either though

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Rob I'm a great bowler. Industry Role: Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Right Outside of Normal. Posts: 13,309	I just got off the phone with my computer guy and he said that a majority of the data is salvagable so I'm feeling a little better now. Phew! I tell you what, it's like Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless mind! __________________

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02-04-2005, 09:56 PM	#27
arnette Confirmed User Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 283	Same thing happened to me last week, i lost a 200gig hard drive. I tested out over 10 pieces of recovery software, most were useless, but i bought these two, and while they couldnt get back everything, they did pretty well. www.restorer2000.com http://www.quetek.com/ download the trials of them and test them out, they were by far the best 2 programs i found Last edited by arnette; 02-04-2005 at 09:57 PM..

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pxxx First African GFY Member Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: New Jersey Posts: 12,114	Damn. that has got to suck. Sorry to hear that man.

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RedShoe 赤い靴 call me 202-456-1111 Industry Role: Join Date: Feb 2001 Location: The Valley Posts: 14,831	dude, I had one crash real bad and none of those data recovery people could do it. They told me about high end hardcore data recovery people that literally pull the drive apart in a "clean room" and place all the internal disks one a large table and read each disk individually. It takes like a week to do. The date comes off very slow and is reconstructed on a new HD. Starting cost is 2K. Instead of doing that I invested in a 1.5 Terabyte RAID setup. Bottom line is, no one will know how fucked that drive is until they look at it. Cheer up, it could be worse... you could be dickless. __________________ SPECIALTY COSTUMES • PROPS • FX Superheroes • Monsters • Robots PM for details For any manufacturing needs. Adult or otherwise. aka BonsHigh on Insta Bonsai weed plants

02-04-2005, 10:10 PM	#31
sumphatpimp Confirmed User Join Date: Aug 2002 Posts: 5,235	after you get all this squared away get an external drive and make your backups to that. saved my ass a week ago when a drive on my machine went. also make a CD to boot up from so you can back into the machine if the boot sectoe goes bad. make sure your bios is set to boot from CD first then harddrive.