Stupid! Stupid! STUPID!

[Bend The Light]

Hard drive failure!
2 years of photos lost.
Including all the ones of my 2 kids.

Might just be power failure. Here's hoping!

But if it's not said once...it's said a hundred times!

BACK UP!

 

[Majeed Badizadegan]

terrible news...

 

[Bend The Light]

terrible news...

How many times do you think I have thought "I'll go and get another Terrabyte and create a copy of the RAW files..." and then didn't do it?
Loads!

I have just had a thought...Many of the pictures of the kids have been transferred to the Father-in-Law's computer, I think. Large JPEGs. There's some consolation in that.

Double redundancy set-up coming up!

 

[pisicel]

is it a hardware failure, or just serious data corruption? If the drive still spins you can try Test Disk: TestDisk - CGSecurity
It is a free version and very powerful. I recovered a corrupted wedding video card after I had tried everything commercial and non commercial. I was desperate.
So I used it since and thank the creators for saving my b..ack

 

[Majeed Badizadegan]

Yes, and there is still hope. There are lots of ways a drive can fail. There are those who specialize in drive recovery and may be able to extract data through data recovery methods.

 

[pisicel]

yes, it will be expensive if it is a hardware failure. They will buy another harddrive identical to yours and replace your drive's damaged parts.
plus the work to recover corrupted data.

 

[Bend The Light]

is it a hardware failure, or just serious data corruption? If the drive still spins you can try Test Disk: TestDisk - CGSecurity
It is a free version and very powerful. I recovered a corrupted wedding video card after I had tried everything commercial and non commercial. I was desperate.
So I used it since and thank the creators for saving my b..ack

Yes, and there is still hope. There are lots of ways a drive can fail. There are those who specialize in drive recovery and may be able to extract data through data recovery methods.

Thanks. I have a couple of ideas from friends...fingers crossed. Will check that link, too. Thanks.

 

[Overread17 5]

Ouch
I've had scares and data loss from bad harddrives - hope you can restore the data and get it back!!

 

[Derrel]

Ouch! So,so sorry to head about your misfortune. I had a similar but smaller data loss, and have now gone to a triple-redundancy system after having lost some precious family photos. Data loss is always a bitter pill to swallow. Hopefully, there is at least "something" that can lessen the sting a bit.

 

[Bend The Light]

Ouch
I've had scares and data loss from bad harddrives - hope you can restore the data and get it back!!

Ouch! So,so sorry to head about your misfortune. I had a similar but smaller data loss, and have now gone to a triple-redundancy system after having lost some precious family photos. Data loss is always a bitter pill to swallow. Hopefully, there is at least "something" that can lessen the sting a bit.

I have a couple of knowledgeable friends who plan to take a look...it might be fully recoverable if it's the power or a controller board problem (or something). In the meantime, i will be buying at least 2x 1Tb drives so I can back up at the first part of the workflow.

I have managed to source all the pictures of the kids (up till a couple of weeks ago) as I put the full size JPG on to the Father in Law's computer. Not the RAW files, but certainly better than nowt!
I also have access to full size JPG of the shows I have done photos for in the past...

I have downloaded all my Flickr stream, but they are mostly 800px images for online use. but, better than nothing.

But here's hoping I can get the stuff back!

 

[bazooka]

PhotoRec is excellent if it's not a hardware failure. And it's free.

PhotoRec - CGSecurity

 

[Bend The Light]

PhotoRec is excellent if it's not a hardware failure. And it's free.

PhotoRec - CGSecurity

Thanks.

 

[IByte]

Thanks.

If it's an internal HDD there's hope. Take your HDD and place it into an external case and use it that way. It will set you back about 60-80 bucks. Good luck.

 

[SCraig]

In 25+ years of IT management I've come to the conclusion that you can never have too many backups but you can most assuredly have too few. I have overkill backup procedures in place on our network at the office but so far in 6 years (including two drive failures and one motherboard failure) we have never lost a single file.

I can understand your pain, I've seen it happen. Back in the 80's an engineering company here had been using CADD for about 2 years when they had a hard drive failure. The tech replaced the head and disk assembly (hard drives were different then), told the system manager to get his backup tapes and they would reload everything and he'd be good to go. The system manager just looked at him and said, "What backup tapes?" Two years of projects completely and irretrieveably lost. It only takes one time to make one a believer.

 

[IByte]

In 25+ years of IT management I've come to the conclusion that you can never have too many backups but you can most assuredly have too few. I have overkill backup procedures in place on our network at the office but so far in 6 years (including two drive failures and one motherboard failure) we have never lost a single file.

I can understand your pain, I've seen it happen. Back in the 80's an engineering company here had been using CADD for about 2 years when they had a hard drive failure. The tech replaced the head and disk assembly (hard drives were different then), told the system manager to get his backup tapes and they would reload everything and he'd be good to go. The system manager just looked at him and said, "What backup tapes?" Two years of projects completely and irretrieveably lost. It only takes one time to make one a believer.

Ghosting software is like magic lol.