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[elgibby]

I knew this would  happen eventually, but I figured that with a less than 2-month-old hard drive, it would be a while.
Last night my 120 gig LaCie external firewire HD died. Its icon shows, but my system (XP) reports that it is empty and unformatted.
It had 80 gigs of music on it.
The good news is that my old Maxtor 40 gig drive still has the 40 gigs on it that I transferred to the LaCie when I got it. It really belongs to my stepdaughter, and I just hadn't got around to reformatting it and giving it back. (And LaCie will replace the new drive; gee, thanks.)
The bad news of course is the other 40 gigs that I've lost, stuff I ripped/downloaded since the end of December. And I had RG'd about 85 percent of my files. And done hours and hours of other housekeeping chores.
I'm considering trying a data recovery service, but they are horrendously expensive.
It's a good thing storage has become "cheap" because I see no other remedy but to have twin drives, and keep one as a mirror/backup. Of course, at 120 gigs each, two drives will set me back $400-$500, no longer "cheap."
Thanks for letting me vent; this reads like I'm pretty calm. You should've heard/seen me at 2:30 this morning. Cat's still shaking.
So am I, actually.

[zevele10]

Did you hard drive was formated as a large drive?
If not when you overloaded it ,it got empty and not formated.
Not of any help to you ,but i had the same trouble with a Maxtor 160 and lost around 131 GB of music.....

In this case ,look like there is no way to have data back.
Most of the data recovery have a free scanner telling you what it may be able to get back.
1;23 AM here ,do not feel like to dig in my mess to give you names.
Seach for one of my posts .
I was sure than a 120 drive does not need to be formated as a  large drive.
I tell you more in few hours ,a friend is coming to fix the problem.

If your problem  the same than me ,there is a good news: your drive is ok and will work

[nila]

Hey

Some advice,

I hope you haven't touched the drive since it's 'accident'.
You have a couple of options.

First one - you might want to try contacting the manufacturer, with a drive that new that has failed, they might offer some kind of free recovery service.

Secondly - data recovery software - there's quite a bit around the net and you could get hold of some of that and try it. It's designed I think for businesses and can be quite expensive but I'm sure if your resourceful u might be able to find a version lying somewhere.

No one's gonna hate you for trying to recover your data and not being able to afford thousands of pounds to do so.

[zevele10]

Bad news: 120 drives do not need to be formated as large drive as far as i know.
I got a link for a recovery program who cost $50. Search for my post about my problem with my drive
First you can use the free scan who would tell you if there is something you can  recover.
email me ,i can help ........

[elgibby]

Zev, Nila

I've recovered my files!
Zev, I downloaded the program you linked to in your previous thread -- R-Studio NTSF -- and the demo version "found" all the files. So I paid the $50 and it recovered all of them.
What a relief!
Thx thx thx!!

[zevele10]

GREAT!!!
This program is not that expensive when you see the price of other softwares.
Anyway i assume your drive is dead.
Not such a problem if you got your files back.
Sure you will get a new one in no time , cause ,after 2 months ,nothing they can say ...just give you  a new one..

[nila]

Cool

It's SUCH a pain loosing them all.

I want to set up a Raid 5 array at home for my personal computer. Seems a bit extreme I know for just a home computer but there's nothing worse than loosing a hard drive with years worth of data on it.

Soon as I get a few hundred spare I'm going to.
I'm currectly using Raid 1 but that's just such a big waste of space as it's all duplicated.