Have You Ever Lost a Hard Drive?
Posted: Tue Mar 22, 2011 3:27 am
OK, so here's hoping everyone can learn from my mistakes.
I have 3 hard drives in my computer right now, or at least I used to.
1. for operating system and programs.
2. older drive with mostly my older tracks on it (cubase, samples etc.)
3. newer drive with my newer tracks (up to two years old)
And none for backup.
The other day I realized that some of my tracks in itunes can't be found, mostly anything good. I was busy with work so I thought nothing of it really. Then 2 weekends ago I lost a zip disk for my Triton. No worries though I'd backed up, what must have been more than 200 sequences on and a whole bunch of patch banks on drive #3. I mean I would die if I lost that stuff!
So I went to retreive the back up and, you guessed it, no drive 3. I have tried everything under the sun and my computer will not recognize that hard drive any more. I even booted it in a linux machine and no luck.
It has been with the local data recovery guy for a week now and no luck.
I don't know if I'll be able to get that data back, but the long and the short of it is.
If I do get the data back it will probably cost me around $500 considering how long its taking.
If I don't, well, I'll be very very very upset. AND it will probably cost me around $500 considering how long its taking.
If I had spent $100 on an external drive that backs up automatically I would be very, very happy right now.
So I am getting an external backup drive and installing some easy to use backup software that runs AUTOMATICALLY. I am also crossing my fingers that I will be backing up my old data on it very soon. Then I will be paying myself out of data recovery debt.
So everyone, feel sorry for me please! I have learned my lesson.
Also here's a cool link that walks you through some steps to recovering your drive, even though it didn't work for me.
http://www.wikihow.com/Recover-a-Dead-Hard-Disk
I have 3 hard drives in my computer right now, or at least I used to.
1. for operating system and programs.
2. older drive with mostly my older tracks on it (cubase, samples etc.)
3. newer drive with my newer tracks (up to two years old)
And none for backup.
The other day I realized that some of my tracks in itunes can't be found, mostly anything good. I was busy with work so I thought nothing of it really. Then 2 weekends ago I lost a zip disk for my Triton. No worries though I'd backed up, what must have been more than 200 sequences on and a whole bunch of patch banks on drive #3. I mean I would die if I lost that stuff!
So I went to retreive the back up and, you guessed it, no drive 3. I have tried everything under the sun and my computer will not recognize that hard drive any more. I even booted it in a linux machine and no luck.
It has been with the local data recovery guy for a week now and no luck.
I don't know if I'll be able to get that data back, but the long and the short of it is.
If I do get the data back it will probably cost me around $500 considering how long its taking.
If I don't, well, I'll be very very very upset. AND it will probably cost me around $500 considering how long its taking.
If I had spent $100 on an external drive that backs up automatically I would be very, very happy right now.
So I am getting an external backup drive and installing some easy to use backup software that runs AUTOMATICALLY. I am also crossing my fingers that I will be backing up my old data on it very soon. Then I will be paying myself out of data recovery debt.
So everyone, feel sorry for me please! I have learned my lesson.
Also here's a cool link that walks you through some steps to recovering your drive, even though it didn't work for me.
http://www.wikihow.com/Recover-a-Dead-Hard-Disk