Yup, i think im gonna shoot myself

[He Man]

Bought a new backup hard drive 2 weeks....sold the one it replaced. and it failed today. 480gb of data lost.

[Magnus]

ouch....  that blows.  happened to me before, so i bought an external drive that had two drives, mirrored.  this way your backup has a backup. 

[He Man]

You know, i dont even know if its my HDD.

I wanted to redo the partitions on my intenral hdd for my notebook. So booted up my windows xp disc, and reinstalled windows. Plugged in my external HDD to gather my info, everything was fine, but i forgot to make a special partition for this program called media direct on my dell. By now i had already moved a sizeable chunk of data from my external hdd. I also installed SP3. So i throw the disc back in and redo the parititions. My laptop boots the winxp cd and detects my external drive and  i thought nothing of it, just dont touch it and im fine. Its under its own catalogery anyway.

I install windows, and my computer will not detect my external hard drive, but it turns on and windows does detect a mass storage device. So i try it on a vista computer, which my hdd is compatiable with. And i try another XP computer. nothing. I cant even get XP3 to instlal from windows update.


wtf.

[iDuc]

Sorry to hear it- aren't computers fun?  If it is really important stuff, remember there are data reclaimation services, but they're expensive.

[He Man]

okay, i think i know what happened. The media direct application thought my mass USB device was part of my main hard drive and deleted the whole make the beast with two backsing thing. Why cant i detect it? under windows XP install, 480,000mb of space that has not been partitioned yet. Once i recreate the partition i should be able to recover the data. I dont care about 50% of my stuff except for my photographs and music.



okay...Partition magic detects teh partition. But once i create the partition, the begining and end of the drive will be lost....is there a program that can recover data from a unpartition drive?

[derby]

okay...Partition magic detects teh partition. But once i create the partition, the begining and end of the drive will be lost....is there a program that can recover data from a unpartition drive?

ontrack easy recovery (pro)

fyi, you might want to quit dickin' with that drive if you don't know what you're doing. the more you play w/ what's on that disk (partitions, format, etc), you're more likely to lose your data forever.

[He Man]

I know what im doing.
Its a backup drive. The only thing im make the beast with two backsign with is my main drive which has nothing but my OS.

Ill check out ontrack easy recovery. I should barely loose anything since the only thing that happened was the drives partition was erase. Nothing has been done to it except for a partition delete and attempt to access it.

[Bun-bun]

I know what im doing.

Then why are you asking for help?

[He Man]

Then why are you asking for help?

Started the post as a voice out and realize what caused my hard drive to act like it failed. Now im wondering if anyone has programs they recommend using. Anyway, i used ontrack easy recovery, and got back 99% of my data, lost a few pictures that i actually have hardcopy backups (dvd) so all is well.

[Bun-bun]

Good. Glad to hear it.
It would really hurt if I lost my pics and music.
I'm getting ready to upgrade my PC soon, I was gonna go with a new one, but with all of the problems w/vista, I decided to just drop in some more memory, and a better graphics card.
I'll learn from your mistake, and keep my backup seperated til everything else is installed.
Jeff

[DarkStaR]

... 480gb of data lost.

That's a lot of porn you have on there.   

My computer (Mac):

all OSX applications + office + PS CS + 20 GB of music + 2k images = < 42GB

[IZ]

So, since you'll be dead..is anyone getting the bike?!

[darylbowden]

Bought a new backup hard drive 2 weeks....sold the one it replaced. and it failed today. 480gb of data lost.

If it's a backup drive, how did you lose your data?  You should still have the "original" data, no?

[Popeye the Sailor]

If it's a backup drive, how did you lose your data?  You should still have the "original" data, no?

You webgeeks would be amazed at the ways us normal folk can make the beast with two backs up a computer.



Me: Highly skilled engineer. Builds cars, satellites, bikes etc.

Computer: Voodoo magic box that hums don't open it lest ye release the magic smoke.

[He Man]

If it's a backup drive, how did you lose your data?  You should still have the "original" data, no?

It would be a backupdrive if my main drive didnt fail. lol

That's a lot of porn you have on there.   

My computer (Mac):

all OSX applications + office + PS CS + 20 GB of music + 2k images = < 42GB

Well its only half porn.  I take a lot of pictures and videos and i have bunch of movies on it so i can stream to my xbox. Now i just need to figure out why i cant get SP3 thorugh Windows update...