rediris
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Posted almost 6 years ago
The unthinkable has just happened.My 250 GB hard drive that contained my 100+ GB of mp3s has just died. Unrecognizable by Windows or OS X.No backup.Ugh.I feel kinda bad.I guess I have to start over.
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  1. Heli0tr0pe
    Heli0tr0pe says maybe some MOGgers out there will have advice...there must be a way to retrieve that shit. good luck.
    Permalink posted 08/04/2006
  2. Direlander
    Direlander says thats really painful, just this morning I bought a new 360GB USB Harddisk for only 110€ because mine starts to make some strange noises. I hope you can rebuild your collection quick!
    Permalink posted 08/04/2006
  3. fairportfan
    fairportfan says My 250K crashed a while back -- like you, no backup; luckily, i happened across the DVDs i'd burnt for my ex-wife a while ago and then didn't have her address to send them... I have a lot less music on here, too -- like about 12 gig or so at this point, so it's okay at the moment. {neep-neep alert!} Windows 2000 went Blue Screen of Death on me a little more recently (i suspect that Real Player had something to do with it); the files were all there, it's just that W2K was tits up. I blew away the partition i was experimenting with Linux on and installed a new W2K there, and i still had or could get the installs for my software (benefit - some shareware i'd liked that timed out gave me another 30 days... {grin}), but booting from other than the main partition is suboptimal, so i need to get another drive - 20gig or so - to copy the boot partition to and use as my boot drive... {end neepery} I need to start using my backup tape drive. And i need to get another 250gig (or bigger) drive -- i'm limping along on an 80gig right now... (And boy howdy i never thought i'd say something like that -- back in '95, when i was doing phone support for NEC computers, we thought that the 2gig drive that shipped in the NEC top-of-the-line desktop was more fabulous than a unicorn's patoot. (Of course, when i was working at AMI in '91, 40meg was considered huge beyond most mortals' wildest needs...)
    Permalink posted 08/04/2006
  4. phantom
    phantom says "I guess I have to start over" Not necessarily check HERE first and if none of these work then try freezing your hard drive and then check it, Don’t laugh it works, ;-)
    Permalink posted 08/04/2006
  5. rediris
    rediris says @Phantom: Thanks for your suggestion. I ended up picking up File Scavenger ($50) and it recognizes all my files. I think my master boot record got destroyed. At any rate, I'm less freaked out, but I need to buy another hard drive to copy all my MP3s off the broken drive. I think I'm going to get a Lacie Ethernet drive, 300GB.
    Permalink posted 08/10/2006

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