[cantsleep]

great, my hard drive crashed and now my 500gb of music files are gone

oh man, all that labor, ripping CDs with EAC..

 

[ecclesand]

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Originally Posted by cantsleep /img/forum/go_quote.gif great, my hard drive crashed and now my 500gb of music files are gone oh man, all that labor, ripping CDs with EAC..

That sucks, man...and on a holiday weekend.

 

[malldian]

That reminds me, should update my backup - haven't for a couple months. Sorry to hear about that loss man, go get another 500GB and start syncing them daily.

 

[Al4x]

500gb, ooh, i have 3 hard drives, because ive found out [for hard drives

] 2 small ones are better than one big one!

one sits in a box, one in the optical bay and a boot one, just to be safe

and at least in mp3you can easily have a clone!

 

[nick_charles]

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Originally Posted by cantsleep /img/forum/go_quote.gif great, my hard drive crashed and now my 500gb of music files are gone oh man, all that labor, ripping CDs with EAC..

I am very sorry to hear that. Personally I have 5 copies of my music files on 3 external drives and two different PCs, probably overkill but I was a programmer back in the 1980s and we had a seven generation backup policy then...

You might yet be able to recover some data, there are utilities to do this as well as companies who may be able to recover data even from corrupt hard drives, it is not cheap but then what is your time worth to you ?

 

[TheMarchingMule]

Technology is a double-edged sword...

Sorry about your loss; I only have 80GB of music, and yet most of them I only have "virtual CDs" of, so if my hard drive ever goes, there goes a lot of MFSL, DCC, Black Triangle, and original pressing albums.

 

[yepyep_]

That sucks.

 

[acidbasement]

What kind of crash? Head crash? If so, try the freezer trick. I've never done it, but many people swear by it for a head crash.

 

[TheMarchingMule]

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Originally Posted by acidbasement /img/forum/go_quote.gif What kind of crash? Head crash? If so, try the freezer trick. I've never done it, but many people swear by it for a head crash.

Here's what I came up with from a Google search:

Hard Drive Freezer Trick - have you ever tried it?

Put Your Hard Drive In The Freezer To Recover Data · CaseyTech.com

Saves the OP a few seconds of tweaking key search words around.

 

[Carmantom]

I hope you are able to find something to get them back. Gosh! Anyone who has ripped that many cds knows the work involved. I remember hating spending the dough, but for those who have not done it, get another storage drive and back em up.

 

[That dude]

ARGH! Dude, guess what, the exact same thing happened to me today. My maxtor onetouch 4 mini refused to read today for some reason, it's producing sort of a high pitch repetitive tick.
However i did back up some of the stuff so just around 50gb of music and videos were lost... still... bummer. Most of my videos are not downloadable anymore...
Ripping music can be fun, it let's u re-discover what you have. (and I don't mean that in a sarcastic way.)

 

[Carmantom]

This event seems to speak to a broader issue regarding hard drives. It seems to me years ago hard drives seemed to last forever. I'm not saying they never failed. I just can't remember one of mine failing. In the last 5 years or so, I have had more of them fail. I guess all the more reason to support back up.

 

[user18]

At work, I had a IBM Deskstar HDD that failed right during a backup. The backup was corrupted. The system was running linux and it would load the kernel, but would fail when it reached the stage of mounting the partitions. The error messages listed the tmpfs swap partition as corrupt. But it still wouldn't load even with the swap disabled. I tried installing the HDD as a slave in other computer (with Linux, Win, BSD) to no avail. Then I tried hooking it up through a USB HDD enclosure. It failed from the Windows machine, but on the linux machine, I was able to mount and read the main partitions. It took a couple of tries, but it did successfully mount. There was still a sterror message about the corrupted swap partition, but I was able to copy off all the data from the main partitions.

 

[Uncle Erik]

Try vinyl. I've worn out a stylus, but have never had trouble retrieving music from my discs.

And sorry about the crash. I'd try one of those data recovery specialists instead of re-ripping.

 

[acidbasement]

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Originally Posted by That dude /img/forum/go_quote.gif ARGH! Dude, guess what, the exact same thing happened to me today. My maxtor onetouch 4 mini refused to read today for some reason, it's producing sort of a high pitch repetitive tick. However i did back up some of the stuff so just around 50gb of music and videos were lost... still... bummer. Most of my videos are not downloadable anymore... Ripping music can be fun, it let's u re-discover what you have. (and I don't mean that in a sarcastic way.)

That is a head crash, and the freezer trick might work for that. See the links on the previous page. The basic principle is that the freezing contracts the r/w head and platter enough that the head doesn't hit the platter - it doesn't last long, but it can give you a brief window of time to get your data backed up elsewhere.