Disaster - Major data loss

re: Disaster - Major data loss

Nate Swenson — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 12:42:46 GMT

R-Studio worked pretty well when my file system died.

re: Disaster - Major data loss

Stuart — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 14:01:00 GMT

If the drives were mirrored then they would be set up as a Raid 1 array, not Raid 0 as you mentioned in your last post. There's a number of third party tools you could try to recover your files with - Winternals ERD Commander (which MS bought a while back) has got some good stuff that may help. But you may need to take both drives into a specialist data recovery place for more help.

re: Disaster - Major data loss

James B — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 15:49:19 GMT

1. To Little To Late but anything worth saving is worth saving twice, maybe three or four times. You have a Raid Desktop so my guess is you have a DVD Burner, couldn't take 20 minutes to setup a burn of those images on a disk costing 25 cents?

2. To Little To Late but many like us offer online, secure backups for as little as $20 a month, esecurebackups.com

3. There are a number of very good drive recovery companies out there that can get that data back but it's going to cost you. If the drive will function at all getting an image of it ASAP is very important.

re: Disaster - Major data loss

jake — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 16:27:20 GMT

I know it sounds odd but sticking it in the freezer has helped me in the past. Obviously I was pretty desperate to even try it but, I have recovered a server and several laptops that way. Depending on what is wrong with the drive, it can help. The best result was to put the entire server in a chest freezer and run it from there long enough to get the data.

re: Disaster - Major data loss

Chris West — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 23:33:05 GMT

I feel for you, I have been there as well..

I have used these guys in AKL: http://www.datarecovery.co.nz/data-recovery.html

I had a dead IDE drive and they were able to retrieve my personal data (yes, photos like you!)

If it is personal data, they have a special rate.

Rgds

Chris

re: Disaster - Major data loss

Adam — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 00:32:38 GMT

I just set up a home NAS solution to cover me for exacvtly this kind of situation. And of course we must always remember raid is for redundancy not backup! But its a bit late for that now.

I lost a whole bunch of photos of a camera once and that was horrible - I ended up talking to forensics specialists who couldnt get it back (aparently some cameras write zeros all over the card to delete all photos. arg)

So anyway it now probably comes down to how much you want to spend. From what I've heard theres not much that can't be recovered, but this may depend on how toasted your drive is. There's some very skilled ppl in this space in NZ.. I think i spoke to http://www.datarecovery.co.nz or someone... they had a minimum charge to get started which was like $700 or something but it may be worth it if they can get your prized info back...

Dead hard drive, dead power supply

Darryl Burling @ Work — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 04:21:59 GMT

I've had a tough time over the last week or so. Last Monday my Hard Drive in my new HP laptop died, taking

Dead hard drive, dead power supply

Noticias externas — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 04:42:50 GMT

I've had a tough time over the last week or so. Last Monday my Hard Drive in my new HP laptop died