A horrible thing has happened to me.

[TY2D2]

Hard Drive, failure...


Recovery, impossible.



Data - Gone


8 Months of work - Gone


Self-Esteem - Plummeting


Sanity Levels - Decreasing


Back-Ups in existance - None


Will to go on - Failing.

























Why me, now... Only 4 days before multiple projects for First Strike were going to be completed...


Someone, comfort me...

[[R-DEV]Rhino]

damn man, I kinda know how it feels thou not quite as bad for me

Try plugging your HDD into anouther system and trying to retrieve the data that way maybe?

anyways hope you can find some way to get your stuff back, if not, best thing you can do is learn from it and always back your stuff up in multiple places / systems

[Polka]

Ouch, that has got to suck

[TY2D2]

I have tried Rhino... I have tried.... it brings me near to tears to have to face this harsh reality.

[[R-DEV]Rhino]

Originally Posted by TY2D2

I have tried Rhino... I have tried.... it brings me near to tears to have to face this harsh reality.

well there is one more thing you could try thou unlikely to help but might.

Open up your hard drive, yep thats right.

Get a can of that compressed air stuff first, dont use deodorant or anything

then get the right type of screw driver, can find them most hard drives use star screws thou some use other types. When in a really non dusty room, open it up, keep any dust away from it as possible, also have really clean hands etc and make sure you get rid of any static electricity on your hands etc too. once you have it open then have a look around, look that the reader is on the disk right etc and theres nothing odd going on in there. then give your HDD disck a quick spray with the compressed air, should clean it up if theres anything on it, thou if you are in a dusty room will spray air onto your HDD, last thing you want so must be real, real clean, you almost need a clean room but you can get away with a norma room thats just really clean for the most part. then after that put it back together and give it a try.

you need to do this all as fast as possible too to reduce the chances of dust getting onto the disk etc but its worth a shot if your HDD is really 100% fecked IMO.

[TY2D2]

I suppose so...

[Squidy]

you can take it to a specialist maybe?

[markonymous]

Originally Posted by TY2D2

Hard Drive, failure...


Recovery, impossible.



Data - Gone


8 Months of work - Gone


Self-Esteem - Plummeting


Sanity Levels - Decreasing


Back-Ups in existance - None


Will to go on - Failing.

























Why me, now... Only 4 days before multiple projects for First Strike were going to be completed...


Someone, comfort me...

i dont know where you live but here we have ppl in the specialist computer stores that specialize at data recovery they work miracles my HDD failed me 2 weeks before i had a ton of schoolwork, papers etc that i had to hand in. they recovered like 99% of all my files on there. I did have to pay for a new HDD and about 30-40 euros for the actual recovery but it was worth it. So my advice is dont open it and screw around with it pay someone who knows what to do to do it.

and data can never really dissapear from an HDD if it just fails its physically in there.

so dont worry

[[R-MOD]Dylan]

Download ubuntu, install to a CD. When booting, set the boot device to CD/or DVD drive, this will load ubuntu from the CD. Get another CD, or get a backup HD, and save the data onto it. All you have to do is open up the HDD icon which will be your C drive... I had to do this once after Vista crashed and burned for a cousin of mine. I could get you a link better explaining it, because its been a while and I cannot explain to you in detail what to do, but it is actually very simple.

[[R-MOD]Saobh]

You could use a program like "DIY Datarecovery" or the likes. Then depending on the reasons your disk failed you can recover a portion or the totality of the hard drive (its a lengthy process)

I was able to recover 2/3 of my hard drive like this ( but sadly lost all my personal photography )