Tech : Raiders of the Lost Data
Tuesday, July 7th, 2009 at
4:09 pm
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I had the very same thing a couple of years ago but with an 80gb Maxtor drive. I guess it just proves the mantra – “Maxtor; the James Dean of hard drives – live fast, die young”
Why dont u go to wikipedia and search “raid” for yourself?
“uh, did you have a back-up?”
“no! Fuck You! Why do you think im so pissed off!?
I WAS LAUGHING MY HEAD OFF
As a fan of Steve Gibson, creator of SpinRite and host of the Security Now podcast, I can vouch that SpinRite is the best.
Thanks for a very informative video.
My dads windows computer with 16 years of family pictures and movies crashed along with my camera on Christmas 2008. We lost almost 6TB of files. According to seagate the data can’t be recovered.
Believe it or not, my uncle’s RAID array that held almost everything (all his digitized copies of 33s, old reel footage, VHS tapes, CDs, and DVDs,), bit the dust almost right after yours. He had NTFS 3G installed on the Mac OS X side of his Mac so he could write to the array which was NTFS. As he was writing a PNG image (the smallest in file size), the Mac kernel panicked and he lost his directory structure too, But he’s been good about backing stuff up to DVDs and Blu-Ray disks.
I currently have alot of importent stuff that is not backed up. I need to change that but I’m outta cash. I’m looking into a drobo system myself as it seems pretty good.
what do you do for a living to afford all this.
ROFL yeah, I read your comment first and was waiting all the way through the video to hear it.
I have most of my work backed up on my 500Gb external. Can I use ‘time-machine’ and still drag other files onto the same drive?
Thanks,
Tom.C
my SD card for my camera crash. 6000 photos were gone
He makes videos, notice he is a partner.
Yeah but he only has like 7 thousands subs you need like 100.000 to make a good living.
My dad was plugging in a external drive with a 12 v power adapter. To bad the drive was 2.5 inch, and rated for 5 v )-:
Dont get it confused with a Mitsubishi Raider!
I have always told my family and friends to backup their data but to thought that i was invincible that is until my hard drive failed and I had no backups which is why now I back up every week.
damn.. how many hard drives do you have? i have to guess over 200 lol.
alfred could you provide me the link you have of the raid 1 hard drive enclosure I’ve been in the market for one
If you reformat it and partition it yes.
aha u hit it on the nose….my porn
I use spinrite. it’s the best…
No, Time Machine will wipe the drive clean and occupy the data.
BUT you can do this: Partition the external drive, so that you can choose which partition will be dedicated to Time Machine. This means that you’ll have one partition left to store other data.
I did this with my 1TB external: 250GB for Time Machine and about 700GB for other data.
The partitioning can be done with Disk Utility, which can be found in “Applications” -> “Utilities”
When one of them turns red, it’s ok, unless it’s the one with your HD Porn
i had 100gig of music on me laptop and me brother got in a piss anfd punched it
lost it all
the acctual hdd case was dented
did i have a backup fuck noooooooooo
To recover delete files or files from formatted filesystem, you can use PhotoRec, an opensource data recovery program.
http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec
It doesn’t recover the original filenames but the data will be recovered for free