And the hard drive dies!!

I really need to get an external hard drive for some dedicated Time Machine action. I've been getting by so far just running Synk to keep personal data syncronized between my G5 and MacBook Pro, but I've got to actually run that manually.
 
Gabriel M.A. said:
Unfortunately, that's evolved to "how many VPs does it take to give conflicting directions to programmers on the corporate way to change a lightbulb".
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I like that. The true answer is "None, that's a hardware problem". So your answer restated as "how many VPs does it take to give conflicting directions to hardware technicians on the corporate way to change a lightbulb" is still quite funny, and also very Dilbertesque as well.

Obviously, you are one of the artists here who is NOT an IT worker playing with cameras on the weekend...
 
RdEoSg said:
Unfortunatly Disk Utilities won't do anything either. It can't mount the drive so everything is greyed out. I don't have a hard drive big enough to put a 300gb disk image anyways so I'll still have to buy a new drive.
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I did see that those external backup device run about $199 for 500 gig. Maybe you could buy one of those, restore to it, replace the drive in your computer and only copy back what you need?
 
okto said:
You can't accidentally delete film.
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Ever leave exposed film in a checked bag going through the airport?

Ever open the back of the camera when you THOUGHT you'd rewound?

Ever wind on so far, you tore the end of the film off and nothing got rewound?

Ever misplace your film?

Ever had a flood?

Ever had a house fire?

Ever been burglarized?

And even if you haven't, many have. Happens every day to someone.

You might want to reconsider your statement. Nature, man, and technology effectively 'erases' film all the time. And unlike digital, it is a single point of failure. Once it is gone, it is gone.
 
Well in Disk Utilities, it sees the drive, the name is wrong, but it does see it. It can't tell the size though, and the spot where it says Repair is greyed out and can't be clicked.

I downloaded the Seagate software for recovering data. It is free for looking at, but you have to pay $130 to actually get the working one that will transfer the images. I ran the test and it did find a lot of data. For some reason it actually found more than was on there! I think it found it multiple times is what happened. Some of it it kept in the folders and some were just images.. It seemed to be less than 50% that were recoverable though unfortunatly. It would say some worked and when I'd open they wouldn't view, but then there were some that said it couldn't do, but did. It also didn't get file types right all the time. I opened one that said jpg and ended up watching Don't Cry video by Guns N Roses! :p

I am not sure what to do. I don't know if I should pay the 130 for 50% and then just deal with that and maybe some day when I have a lot of extra cash, send it in to have a real recovery done that could cost $500-1000. I don't even know if a real recovery would do more or not. I guess no one does til they try.

I don't know what the CKDSK is. Could you explain that too me? I have PC's at work which is where I ran the seagate software from.
 
Thanks for the help Arden! Ok latest update. I checked the software from seagate again and it crashed on me... this is where it gets odd. When I opened the program again, I could see the drive a lot easier. It is like you said, the reason I was seeing so much corrupted stuff is that it was finding all of the deleted or moved files as well. Now it looks quite normal, in addition to the old folders I see all of the current ones and so far upon reviewing all the files, I have yet to find any corrupted files I couldn't get opened.

I went ahead and bought another hard drive as they were on sale and clearly I need a backup or something anyways. I am going to go ahead and recover the drive over to this new one, and then I am thinking I will format the corrupted one a few times and try to whip it completely clean and then possibly add all the files back to it as a secondary backup, I don't want to rely on it solely after this, but it can't hurt to keep it as a spare copy! Provided the format takes care of the problems that is.

One more question. This drive is Fat32. I wouldn't mind converting my new drive I got to the Mac format.. I forget what it is.. the extended thing. I understand it, just don't remember the name.. anyways, I am not sure how I can do that since the other drive and recovery software are connected to a PC. I assume I will have to leave this one as a FAT32 drive otherwise the PC isn't going to see it. Does anyone see a way around this? I guess I could transfer this one. Then repair the old one. then transfer back to the old one. Then once that is done and I have two drives that are both working, I could connect them to the mac, reformat the new drive to the Mac format, and then transfer the files yet again...

Did you catch that.. surely there is an easier way :p
 
Update!

Well I used the seagate software to recover the drive. I tried the Mac Disk Utilities again but it just won't let me do anything. The recover and repair settings are always greyed out. I paid the $130 for the Seagate software and it worked perfectly! I now have a perfect copy of my hard drive and I have yet to find a single file corrupted or missing!

Thanks again for all of the help everyone, I really appreciate it!
 
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