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i love computers. my own hard drive crashed 2 times because of a failure in the external hdd case firewire controller. but thanks to phobia who recommended me getdataback i got most of my files back. a month ago i bought my girlfriend a new shiny western digital (which is meant to make the best disks) drive 250 gigs strong. so far so good - installed (normally in a tower pc) configured - everything was going good. was. my gf needed the disk for movie files because she works on a movie project in adobe premiere. of course she saved all her files on the new disk. i didn't even recommend her backup because i always thought that the savest place for files is in a simple tower pc without internet connection. how false. one week ago my gf calls my histeric and crying that her data is lost. i thought that she just made some simple mistake and formated something or similar. so i went to her and looked at the hdd. seemed okay everything. the size in windows was ok, physically the disk seemed alright. but about 20 gigs of files (of course the most improtant ones - the premiere files, and, what's really strange - really important txt files and some mp3...) where completely gone. a few folders completely empty. i didn't really bother - launched getdataback and... ... and nothing happend - he didn't find ANY of the files not ANYONE. i launched getdataback again with differrent options, later ontrack, later a few other and finally i gave up... the histeria goes on - 3 months of work fucked + many scripts, works and other stuff as txt. i'm sending it to the wd service tomorrow - two weeks of waiting i think. but i guess they will not bother aobut the files, erase them, chjeck the disk and send it back or give me another one. i love computers |
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He <3's Computers. |
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your gf is shitting you. sheprobably cheats on you and made you think she was working on that film when in reality she was out dating other men. but yes, computers are poo. |
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it can`t be. option 1: the files was not deleted (lost), but just moved to another location (ctrl-x, ctrl-v) option 2: someone deleted them using wipe method. seriously. |
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she couldn't use wipe method - if she did i would find them anyway if they were moved - i would find them anyway it has to be a physical destruction of the disk but that doesn't change the fact that the files probalby are gone forever |
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there's also a kex factor in this; girls&computers. it just doesn't work. |
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If you move a file, you just change its path. It stays in the exact same place on the HDD. Unless you move it to another partition, then you actually copy and delete. Sadist: WD - normal thing. I guess one of the data recovery companies can help you, but I don't know the prices Don't play with WD. If you read that they are the fastest in some test, just take the second one. Don't buy WD. |
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formatting? could have started reformatting the drive? can you reformat/start reformatting a drive with apps stored on that drive still running? |
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getdataback and ontrack are such programs - nothing... qrdl - the thing is just - i phoned a popular databack company and they told me about 1000 dollars the gigabyte.... but we don't have the money to do this. maybe wd has their own specialists but i don't know if they actually will try to find those files. so what to do ? sue wd ? hell |
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another interesting fact: my gf told me that it was like this: she launched her pc, made a bit on it, it crashed, she restarted it, some windows error appeared, scandisk launched - files gone |
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1000$?!?!?! Wow, I was expecting something like 100$. I don't know what you should do. WD won't even try recovering the data, that's for sure. I'm sorry, but it seems you're fucked. |
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i already stopped worying about the data - i rather consider it lost and later drink myself to death IF they find the data... seems like i'll get a new wd disk with a sticker "fuck off" and life on |
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Exactly. Sell it on allegro and buy something else. Anything. |
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i don't have to sell it because i can bring it back as it is still guarateed |
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Seagate is the best your mistake was buying a WD try to exchange for a Seagate. |
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never had any problems with western digital drives. would also second what 01911170 said. |
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I mean the new one |
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Remember Seagate Barracuda IV (or III, I'm not sure)? Same thing. Maybe try Maxtor. |
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is Sadist the "Computer Problem Havin-ist" poster at XLT? |
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seems like i am. at last one thing that people might remember me |
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isn't that at least funny ? |
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it is at least strange and probably also funny. |
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god hates me |
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yeah, first problem was buying a wd, theyre notorious for failing, but normally when a harddrive fails its unusable, just a few folders missing doesnt really happen due to physical damage. which os is she using? if it is winxp or 2000 or anything using the nt kernel and the harddrive is formatted in ntfs, deleted files are unretrievable, even with consumer level data recovery programs. |
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the second part scared me to death... really? how come i retrieved my data on my ntfs disk on winxp? can you tell me more about this ? what about fat ? |
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haha, it makes your avatar very appropriate. |
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lol youre so right... good thinking |
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hahaha :D |
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i guess my patethic-meter just raised 3 points |
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goddamn.... |
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oops, i was a little unclear on that. in winxp, if a file is lost because some program fucks it up and deletes, it is still retrievable. but if a file is deleted and then recycled its gone forever. ie iTunes decided to freak out on me and delete-recycle in one go half of my collection, and even after trying data recovery progs they all said it was gone. with fat32 as long as there hasnt been anything written over the data on the physical disk it should still be retrievable (so if you think you lost something, make sure to move/create as little data as possible) |
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thanks for that! i guess that scandisk fucked everythign up... i mean when the pc crashed the files probably where tossed around the hdd. then scandisk detected them as bad data and deleted/recycled them. really the only thing that comes to mind |
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