[LFF]

Good to hear you got some of it back! I try to back-up everything on my external drive and burn most to disc as well.

I lost my entire collection once in a drive failure and since then, I try to back-up regularly.

 

[krmathis]

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Originally Posted by Tyson /img/forum/go_quote.gif Good vibes have paid off (as has the good advice in this thread). I sought the help of a second specialist locally and brought both drives. Secondary drive was salvageable and I've got the majority of my music collection back on line - WooHoo!

Great news!

Saved you a lot of time re-ripping, encoding, tagging, ...

 

[omegaman]

Glad you got most of it back, you must be relieved. Back it up again...NOW !!!

 

[rogue]

Glad you got it back! I recently had a 500gb WD drive crap out on me, and it of course held the majority of my music (~150gb or so). Luckily, I was able to salvage it with Spinrite, for it seems that a mechanical failure (sort of like the famous IBM 'click of death') had occurred which caused the drive to accumulate loads of bad sectors. Thankfully it was still able to spin up, and although it took 20 hours or so, Spinrite did recover the majority of the bad sectors succesfully, and I was able to copy my music over before the drive crapped itself again.

FWIW, I've had drives from every manufacturer (Maxtor, Seagate, IBM/Hitachi, and WD) fail on me, except for Samsung. I'm in the process of replacing my current 500gb's with Samsung 750's - cheap ($100 or so), quiet, and reliable.

 

[Wmcmanus]

Great news! Most is much better than none at all. I think I would have crapped myself if I were you, but I didn't want to say that until now.

 

[musicmind]

That's good to hear Tyson, glad you recovered your music, the classical music threads wouldn't be the same otherwise

 

[Caribou679]

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Originally Posted by bungle /img/forum/go_quote.gif I would be utterly pissed if this happened to me, but... I don't agree with that, since he gave away the CDs already and no longer owns them. I'm not sure he should have kept the digital copies once he gave the CDs away. What does everyone else think?

I share your thoughts on this. He should not have kept the digital copies.

It is too easy to give away something that you still have/own. Either he gives it away or he keeps it, there is no gray line here. Whatever the justifications are why it seems OK to do that ,I don't think it is correct.

He could have donated what he did not want to keep and listen no more and that would have been cool, but "donating it all" and " keeping it all" just does not work. Responsibilty i think it is called.

It does not surprise me his hard drives failed, he just pulled it in!

I hope he rebuilds a cd collection soon, and listens to what he owns.

regards,

 

[skeeder]

I use a nifty program called
Allway sync
It detects changes and copies new files to my redundent smaller backup drive. Its a poor man's raid...haha.

I recommend it to all.

 

[Ne12o]

Zune: Reverse Sync!

w00t!

 

[Ne12o]

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Originally Posted by Caribou679 /img/forum/go_quote.gif I share your thoughts on this. He should not have kept the digital copies. It is too easy to give away something that you still have/own. Either he gives it away or he keeps it, there is no gray line here. Whatever the justifications are why it seems OK to do that ,I don't think it is correct. He could have donated what he did not want to keep and listen no more and that would have been cool, but "donating it all" and " keeping it all" just does not work. Responsibilty i think it is called. It does not surprise me his hard drives failed, he just pulled it in! I hope he rebuilds a cd collection soon, and listens to what he owns. regards,

You don't "own" the music. You own the license to the music. He paid for the license, and thus he can use it.

 

[olblueyez]

Glad to hear you got your music back!

 

[Kang]

Splendid news! A huge sigh of relief for you.

 

[mosi]

Congratulations on getting your precious collection mostly back alive Tyson!

Since someone mentioned DVD-R backups I strongly suggest to avoid those media. I switched to DVD-RAM media a while ago because they are said to last like 30 years when stored well.
Maybe have a second backup-set which you store at a friends basement just in case.
Also they're rewritable an awful lot of times so frequent backups are made easy.

 

[milkpowder]

Very nice to hear things have been mostly resolved. I had a similar experience about 2-3 months ago. The 500GB WD HDD that my 320GB library was on decided to go into early retirement. Fortunately, I had a partial back-up (275GB) on two different hard drives, as well as some of my CD collection with me so it didn't hurt too much. There is no excuse not to back-up.

 

[bungle]

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Originally Posted by Ne12o /img/forum/go_quote.gif You don't "own" the music. You own the license to the music. He paid for the license, and thus he can use it.

Then what is one doing with the licenses when one sells or gives away the CDs? If one does not transfer the licenses, then the recipient cannot listen to the music. If one does transfer the licenses, one cannot continue to listen. A person cannot copy or duplicate the licenses, as that is not a part of the license agreement if he is not the copyright owner.