Well it finally happened.

[Shonsteez]

A lot of the time even when you can recover files from a crashed HD the files are corrupted in some way or tend to be damaged, at least in my experience with this sort of thing.

 

[Big Tone]

spent a few hours on the harddrive. reformatted and its still good. i have all of my sounds and most of my samples on dvd's. you best believe i looked all day for that shit. i not going to use this harddrive anymore went with a 60 gig i had in my vista machine. the 500gb is about to get a little more cramped

 

[Greg Savage]

Dont fuck with the drive yet i know a app that will allow you to get it all back just let me look for it. I had the same thing happen few months ago


DONT FORMAT THE DRIVE YET

 

[The Arkitekt]

is that at me?

 

[thedreampolice]

http://geeksaresexy.blogspot.com/2006/01/freeze-your-hard-drive-to-recover-data.html
http://help.lockergnome.com/general/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=43993

When I worked in tech I probably froze 50 drives and got data off about 30 of them. What actually happens is that what often fails on a hard drive is the controller chip. Those chips tend to last a little long when very cold (as do about every other compute part) heat is the enemy. It may sound like a strange solution but it is one that I have had very good luck with it. Also once you format the drive your not getting your data back BTW.

 

[Guevara]

Take it out of your computer, put it in the freezer for an hour. Take it out and try again to get your data quick.

Seriously.

i thought that only worked wit dead batteries.

 

[The Arkitekt]

yea I'm not formatting it until I can easily get the data back.

Can I freeze my HD now? it's been months. or do I gotta do it immediately after it fails

 

[thedreampolice]

No harm in trying now.

 

[The Arkitekt]

good point, I'ma stick it in the freezer.

 

[Greg Savage]

The application is called


POWER DATA RECOVERY

http://www.powerdatarecovery.com/

I've never had a issue recovering data on a crashed drive with that application.

Hook the crashed drive up as a slave or plug it up via firewire or usb

 

[The Arkitekt]

damn! I just put my good HD back in the enclosure like 1 minute ago lol (btw, my failed HD didn't work after freezing, I guess it's been too long)

good lookin out dude i'll try this program out

 

[Kontents]

Ughh... my external drive just failed. I just lost everything... and nothing is backed up.... I just lost my virginity a week ago and now this...

 

[Ominous]

I be backing up my back ups...

And when I leave my house, I put my MPC in the washing machine and I hide my hard drives under the mattress or behind the toilet paper in the bathroom.