Sad day-

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

I dropped my external hard drive a while back, and had been meaning to back it up for a long while, i have 70,000 images on it, many of which are important scientific records. i have just spent 48 hours trying to salvage as much as I can, still a long way to go, but it appears many files have corrupted and are no longer viable:puke:

 

I do not know as yet the full extent of the damage, but i was supposed to be putting a file together to mail some great people regarding my theories on Fistulina hepatica after a conversation this week.

 

just when these images become the asset they was always meant to be, i may have lost more than I can bare.

 

This is the second time ive lost images, but this is a BIG loss.

 

The digital age is a great thing, and a curse, learn from my mistake and back up boys and girls, cos this is going to sting for me for all my days.

[Brushcutter]

Sad news Tony. Have you tried taking your hard drive to a computer expert. It's amazing what they can do.

[defenderjack]

thats awful mate ! i sympathise with you , i hate losing photos when there that important , i lost the first 2 years worth of photos of my daughter from when she was born onwards ,i was gutted ! never gona get them again !

i hope you manage to retreive what you can , !

[roseyweb]

I've done the same not long ago, data recovery companies are a rip off

[david wood]

definetly worth taking to an expert, my last hard drive died big style and i thought i had lost all files - couple hrs later i got 99% back.

[wakarb]

that sucks mate. i have had an incident like this where i lost a whole disk that contained all the photos of my kids from birth onwards plus loads of other non-replaceable pics.

 

i looked into data recovery specialists that basicly tear the thing apart in a lab and fire lasers at the plater to recover things that software and pc shops just can not do. i hope this is of some help mate. there are a few company's offering this service but i would talk to them and get quotes as the cost can be very high.

 

ben.

[redmoosefaction]

Very bad.. almost happened to me so ....... on a good note, I now have 3 back up drives :-) when they cost sub £50, what price eh

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Yes, back up...back up.... back up... and to be sure, back up the back ups back up!

[bolthole]

Try using this...

 

Recuva - Download

 

I've used it on a number of occasions to great effect. If you can still read the drive, obviously...

 

I've also used this;

 

GRC|Hard drive data recovery software

 

but they've started charging for it now. Good luck...

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Try using this...

 

Recuva - Download

 

I've used it on a number of occasions to great effect. If you can still read the drive, obviously...

 

I've also used this;

 

GRC|Hard drive data recovery software

 

but they've started charging for it now. Good luck...

 

thanks, when ive got all the un corrupted images off it i might try those to recover that which i cant