My Hard Disk died!

[deepinspace]

In fact, I'm having problem formatting the drive!!! What is going on, it's less than 6 months old! :cry:

[richcz3]

deepinspace

What make is your drive? Check on their web and see if you're still covered by their warrenty. It's really pretty easy in most cases.

I had a Maxtor blow out on me a month ago after only a few months of operation. I finaly decided to put the time and see what I could do about it last week. Maxtor sent me a replacement drive in 3 days.

Its worth looking into.

richcz3

[gmask]

Firewire drive you say? Umm.. okay some enclosure don;t disspate heat very well. I assume thought hat this ios one that came all together..

A firend of mine was able to recover files by putting the whole drive into the freezer.. to coo it down and then he coudl copy file soff it.

Of course I would have just done something sane like take it out of the non cooling enclosure and mounted it either internally but he managed to recover most of what he nedded.

So does it feel hot? Is it hot where you are? Can you return it?

[deepinspace]

It's a Lacie D2 60GB 7200rpm external Firewire harddrive. The warrenty does not cover data recovery. I don't really care about the drive just want my data back. Just managed to reformat the drive, and running the data recovering program, now. Hopefully, just hopefully............


http://www.lacie.com/products/product.htm?id=10022

[gmask]

Err.. usually you wouldn't want to do a reformat if you wish to recover files but I guess it's possible.

[deepinspace]

I did try to recover my files before reformatting, but I wasn't able to access the drive. So, the only thing I could do was to format or reformat the drive/partition.

[gmask]

What recovery software are you using? If the file was at all fragmented when it crashed it is very unlikely any of the files will recover fully without very specialized software. There are services that can do it but it usually costs at least $2000 per drive.

[deepinspace]

2000 squid per drive, that is sick!

[gmask]

Originally posted by deepinspace
2000 squid per drive, that is sick!

Well $2000 US

basically the moral of the story is back it up or else

I would really reccomend getting a DVDROM burner they are alot cheaper than file recovery and you can store littel over 4GB on them for cheap and relatively quickly.

In the future I would alos reccomend not reformattign a drive until you are ready to give up. I have been able to recover file sfrom drives but installing them in another computer. Sometimes the drive manager in windows seems to get really confused about firewiredrives and you need to clear the old records of the partitions. But once you have rewritten the b-trees etc.. I don't know that much about it but once that has happened the chances of remounting the drive with your files intact is very very very slim and as I said even if the recovery software can see files after that the chances of those files being complete is even slimmer.

[Brim]

Why would you use an external harddrive anyway? I think it's risky even with shock protected cases. Better of building file server crap box. And yes - i also recommend DVD burner. 4 gigs per disk is great.

[gmask]

>>>Why would you use an external harddrive anyway?

Why? A: Because you either have a disk that needs to be portable and therefore Firewire drives are a good option or B: you allready have 4-5 internal drives like I do and have no other option.

I have a firewire tower with removable drive sleds because I have numerous projects drives. I could have them all or want them all loaded at any given time. The data is safer sitting on a shelf rather than mounted.


Anyway this issue doesn't really have anything to do with wether or not the drive is internal or external.. When I mainly relied on SCSI I had as many external drives as the day is long and it was never an issue. Firewire though has not proven to me to be totally reliable but so far it has not burned me ..pun intended :D

[cg_fan_2003]

yup freezer trick works. shaking it. and tapping the sides. best options then stick it back in and try to recover it all. unfortunetly u have no chance unless u have $2k

[gmask]

Originally posted by cg_fan_2003
yup freezer trick works. shaking it. and tapping the sides. best options then stick it back in and try to recover it all. unfortunetly u have no chance unless u have $2k

We had an avid drive once where the head got stuck and the support people told us to lift it up by one edge about an inch and then let go.. it started working again after that.

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