it's dead Jim....

[Ron Vogel]

4 years of recording down the tubes, hard drives corrupted.

I saved MOST of the 2 track .wav files, all tracks for all projects GONE!!!!



I'm very dissapointed. that is all

[ScratchNSurf]

throw the hard drive in the freezer for a couple hours! The change in temperature changes the size of the drive and sometimes the writing arm lets go of the drive, enabling it to be use for a couple more hours... theres also simply dropping the drive on a table or jiggling it... those should only be used if the freeze trick doesnt work..

And if the prjects are that important, theres also data recovery businesses. Expensive tho

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[Sqye]

.

That SUCKS!

Note to self - back up all recent projects and laptops tomorrow...

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[idylldon]

No backups or are they corrupted as well?

I've had success with the freezing trick a few times so that's definitely worth a try if you haven't already.

Cheers,
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Don

[Ron Vogel]

nah, freezing isn't an option...not anymore anyway.

Late night "smoking" during the repair led to lots of bad decisions

It was time to move on with these projects I suppose. I put in a new CPU, and have been spending quite a lot of time optimizing.

At least I got my stereo mixdowns, even though I was still tweaking many of them.

[Dean Roddey]

Always keep two drives and back up projects to the second drive after any substantial changes. Or just copy over the network to another machine in the house. On larger time scales copy them off site in some way in case of fire or theft or whatever.

[doom64]

My way to play is...

Two copies on hard drives, an FTP server upload of current projects (files converted to FLAC or WavPack) and finished projects deleted off one drive, burned to DVD-R or Blu-ray disc. When a drive fills up I just buy another.

All the naysayers of optical media are full of it. I have CD-DA writeables from 1999 that still work fine. Ripped with above 98% accuracy with Exact Audio Copy. Data discs, which is THE ONLY WAY TO ARCHIVE, are much more stable.

[dingo]

Originally Posted by doom64

All the naysayers of optical media are full of it.

It depends on burn quality and stability of the media; It takes time/money to test different media to find which is most compatible with a given burner, and then to find the optimal burn speed, and then to scan each burn.. and long-term stability of the media is always an unknown. Caveat lector.

Redundant redundancy is best.

[Lute]

Sad news Ron, you gotta backup regularly. I guess you know that now :(
I often post on forums that I've backed up my stuff and that usually prompts other folk to do the same. Just checked when I last backed up and it was in August Sorted now thankfully

Hope you manage to resurrect those pieces and back em up.
Cheers
Phil

[Batchainpuller78]

Argh!! this thread prompted me to check how my old drives were doing... 2 won't get going anymore.. they start up then comes a loud click then they wind down again then they try to start up again, big click and wind down... one is a lacie d2 quadra the other a d2 hd...

[doom64]

Thanks for the reminder to start up my old hard drives!

As for optical media (CD-R/DVD-R), Taiyo Yuden is where it's at. For Blu-ray Disc I use either Verbatim or TDK.

[Beat Poet]

Ahh shit, bad luck, I know the feeling. One thing to remember is that backing up on an external isn't really backing up at all. Like above, I use DVDs as well and keep them packed away where they won't get damaged.

[Batchainpuller78]

woohoo, turned out to be faulty power supply, they all mount again and no click!

[KT1]

[QUOTE=Ron Vogel;7470567]Late night "smoking" during the repair led to lots of bad decisions[QUOTE]

Been in that place so many times! Hell should i click this ..i mean it should be ok..I could just wait till i find out the answer tomorrow..nah ill just give it a go..

DEFRAGMENTING DRIVE..

Noooo!

Damn you sweet hunny cheeba damn you my little sugar puff of happiness...

[Burger]

Outch.


Had the same thing happening 2 weeks ago. 1 year of basicly instrumental production and some mixing gone. backups where there but way to careless.

Im Doing a Deep Scan with a Tool called diskdrill, hope that will at least save something. 15 days to go...

heads up!

[oweng]

no no no
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babe - chill -send it off to a data recovery place -

all the data is still there-
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don't panic -

it is all still there babe -

likely just a toasted read head ..chill