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Ahhh! Over the last five weeks Ive been dowloading Orbital gigs, B-sides, and remixes off limewire and the mixingbowl. I must had like 5 hours of amazing material and I was going to tranfer it all onto my new computer 2 days ago...yet my hard drive i was using died the day before and I lost everything. Im so frusturated!!!!

Shit happens to us all...

mmm condolences mate. i've lost so much stuff in hard drive crashes it's just not funny...

Yup, had the same problem happen to me, so I invested in one of those external USB hard drives (with a 'one-touch' backup button). Worth it's weight in gold if it ever happens again!

cool...actually I just found a site that is good at repairing crashed harddrives so I might send it off to them

ffej071 wrote:cool...actually I just found a site that is good at repairing crashed harddrives so I might send it off to them

So you've got about £400-£500 to spend then? Thats how much the top data recovery companies can charge to disassemble your hard drive in a clean enviroment and then transfer the platters etc. It's not always guaranteed to work and you'll still have to pay them.

Cheaper to buy a new hard drive, a backup solution and start again.

Agree with Dog on that one - you need to be a very rich man (and hope you don't have any porn stashed on it) to take the repair option...

How dead is the drive ? no power, no o/s error message or wont boot ?

it makes clicking noises....its on my laptop so I can hear it pretty well and yea i get the bluescreen with the error message. But dang 500 bucks? The site I saw said it had a high sucess rate so ill check it out and see how much it costs. Btw i got a new hard drive from IBM which was free so thats good.

try using GetDataBack. i recovered a drive with that just last week.

Clicking noises are normally the seek heads failing. You could try and put it in a caddie then connect it another machine (as a slave) via USB but it sounds quite f*cked to me.

yea i got a hard drive enclosure thing and I connected it to my other computer and I had no luck. It says its not accesible. And i called the place I was going to send it and they said it can cost from 400-1500 dollars so forget that idea .

All kidding aside, if it's clicking, try giving it a gentle tap or two with the handle of a screwdriver when you're booting the PC... Might get it spinning long enough to recover the data.

Seriously, try GetDataBack. i had a drive that was clicking, wouldnt boot up, the master boot record was also screwed and I recovered 28GB of mp3's from it. You can get the trial from from runtime,org which will let you know if its recoverable.

yea I downloaded it and it looks kinda confusing. Like I have my crashed drive inside a hard drive enclosure which is hooked up to my firewire port (or I can try USB2). Im not sure how to get the program to look there.