CamBomb
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Joined: 03 Apr 2004
Location: USA, Massachusetts
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oh man...today is a sad day...my hard drive with all my music that i've ever made, all my samples and vsts that i had just started compiling...GONE...not to mention all my mp3's...god has forsaken me...and to top it off i was a couple days away from buying an external hard drive and backing up all my music files...TO ALL TRACKERS...make sure you back up your work...cause you don't want this happening to you!!! =( |
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Sunbuster
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Joined: 05 May 2003
Location: Finland
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Posted: Mon May 17 2004 23:10
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Try running EasyRecovery Professional on the HDD that crashed. This proggie has already rescued my work twice from crashed HDD's  |
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CamBomb
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Joined: 03 Apr 2004
Location: USA, Massachusetts
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Posted: Tue May 18 2004 05:29
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hah i wish it was that easy, this wasn't just a crash. Something bad happened...very bad.
First i smelled a burning smell in the air, thought my fan was overheating cause i'd had it on for a few days straight so i turned it off and smelled it...not my fan then i was started panicing cause i then turned to my computer and low and behold it all of a sudden shuts off. I then proceed to unplug my computer and quickly take off the side panel hoping that nothing will catch on fire, i throw and ice pack on the top of it hoping to cool it down, and it does cool it down. i leave it sit for about an hour and i thought i had traced the smell to my power supply. mainly because the power supply was really quite hot. so after that hour i then decided to plug it back in and see if the computer would turn on...it turned on then quickly shut off and after that it wouldn't even power up anymore.
I've had my computer looked at by a couple pros and they've narrowed it down to the hard drives. my 120 gig doesn't even spin anymore and my 30 spins but isn't recognized anymore. What is now the theory is that the 120 which had my OS on it had a serious failure and just shit itself and which might've courrupted my second hard drive as well. So as it stands my 120 had all my madtracker on it and my mp3's...my pappy said its possible to have my drive sent to someplace and have them take apart the drive and manually take of the data in a clean room. but thats expensive so if i was going to do that i think i'd only take my mt2 files...all i really care about really...but shit happens i guess ALWAYS BACK UP YOUR VALUABLES!!!!!! |
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technoid
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Joined: 21 Sep 2003
Location: Oregon USA
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Posted: Tue May 18 2004 06:52
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my pappy said its possible to have my drive sent to someplace and have them take apart the drive and manually take of the data in a clean room. but thats expensive so if i was going to do that i think i'd only take my mt2 files
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Yeah, that's called a Data Recovery Service and they usually pay per a unit of bytes (gigs, megs, etc.) and can be very expensive. Find out how much you'll pay though. It could be affordable. |
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Yannick
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Joined: 16 Apr 2003
Location: Belgium
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Posted: Tue May 18 2004 07:11
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Sounds like the same problem I had last year when my power supply burnt. It damaged my mother board but the HD, CD-ROM and the PCI cards were ok.
Maybe you had less "luck" than me... Anyway, a data recovery should still be possible in a laboratory or something. If the mechanical part of a HD is dead, the magnetic plates are still there.
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Sunbuster
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Location: Finland
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Posted: Tue May 18 2004 09:35
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You have tried inserting the HD's into another computer? see if they spin there? |
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CamBomb
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Joined: 03 Apr 2004
Location: USA, Massachusetts
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Posted: Wed May 19 2004 22:04
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yeah actually i tried putting them into other computers, making them slaves masters all that jazz.
And get this...the data recovery service costs anywhere from 600 to 5000 dollars...lol ahh well goodbye music i'll know better next time. I'm glad i got a couple recordings of my good songs or i'd really be down in the dumps...but all my mt2s are down the drain  |
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InHousePussy
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Joined: 13 Nov 2003
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Posted: Thu May 20 2004 01:26
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dang that's a bitch... I'm feelin u, no doubt..  |
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CHICAGO¤lollie
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Joined: 05 May 2003
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Posted: Thu May 20 2004 02:26
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I had the same sort of problem a few years ago, with a harddrive crash. Apparently, the harddrive had been scratched (an internal mechanical problem was to blame), and a large number of files refused to work.
I managed to save a few (crappy and now useless) files on Floppy though, before it went "bleh" on me.
It seems you've had much worst luck though |
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technoid
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Joined: 21 Sep 2003
Location: Oregon USA
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Posted: Thu May 20 2004 03:49
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I'm feelin u, no doubt..
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You perv.  |
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mikx
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Joined: 05 May 2003
Location: Melbourne
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Posted: Thu May 20 2004 10:59
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hahaha! @ technoid
regarding the crash though, those services sound really expensive!! i thought they were a little cheaper - surely there is some data recovrey place around your city with cheap services? i know exactly what you're going through though, and seriously, i would consider data recovery in this situation. but i guess thats because my music is the most important thing in my life..
good luck man 
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InHousePussy
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Posted: Thu May 20 2004 11:12
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I'm feelin u, no doubt..
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You perv.
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Lol
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CamBomb
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Joined: 03 Apr 2004
Location: USA, Massachusetts
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Posted: Thu May 20 2004 13:15
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yeah i'm still looking for a cheaper place but so far no luck  |
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D Vibe
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Location: Sweden
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CamBomb
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Joined: 03 Apr 2004
Location: USA, Massachusetts
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Posted: Fri May 21 2004 15:30
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heh thanks = ) i can't seem to find one thats any cheaper...soooo ahh well, i've needed to upgrade anyway these new vsts really kick my computers ass...but they sound so nice...that and i need a upgrade for my major in college(computer graphics) lotta 3d work. But i will miss my past work, i'd sent my friend quite a bit of what i had done, but i'd made this one song called starlight which came out really good, thats really the only one i'll miss, cause the other songs i had actually sent the mt2 to friends. heh ahh well least i got a couple recordings of um |
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