I hate technology

[sigsauer]

My stupid harddrive crashed and ive lost close to thirty gigs of music... amoung other files. Its going to take me forever to regain all that music. Any suggestions?

[Rudolf]

Keep backups next time. Computer can crash for a number of reasons.

[ROBER-E]

too bad man ..at least you still have this site to gett your collection started again:D

[stclairthug]

Damn, thirty gigs. I agree with Rudolf, best to keep back ups.

[lsdmeasap]

You can always tell us more details and I could possibly help you get your data back. Data is really NEVER deleted or lost. Corrupt maybe, but not lost.

Are you sure it is DEAD? And if so, what makes you say that?

[sigsauer]

Its an external HD. It doesnt show up on my computer anymore and it makes this odd whirring noise.

[c4m]

Yeah, you should try and see if someone can recover your data.

[ROBER-E]

this aint the first time this has happened
http://albumwash.com/forum/t1577-help-500gb-external-hdd.html

[lsdmeasap]

How much data is on there? And how important is it to you? If you like, you can send me the drive and I will get your data off there and send it back to you. Or fix the drive for you. I could send the data to you on a different drive possibly if it is not TOO MUCH DATA. Like a lot, then I wont be able to ship you back a different drive. but if it is only 20gb or so, then no problem. I may just be able to fix your drive for you, or create and host a torrent for your data if you want and you could download it from me.

There is many things that can be done, but it all depends on how much you want that data.

Damn, after all that typing I go and read the above link about 500GB

Well, you can send it here and I can see if it is indeed broke before you throw it away. Have you tried hooking it up yourself NOT in the external case? Could be a bad case, as well as disk, but you may be able to get stuff off of it if you get it into your pc and it turns out the case is worse off then the disk and that was what was making it not be read

[labou]

I can't remember the name of the program now, but later I can get you one that I believe can retrieve lost data.

[Je$t]

I have to agree with everybody else. Always keep a back-up. If you're already using an external HD, buy another one STRICTLY to keep your back up data on. I've got a 500 GiG external HD, that's nothing but back ups of everything that's "important" on my computer, and I haven't had any problems yet.

[labou]

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