Just had a hard drive with 2 terabytes of data on it die.

"JustWaitingForAMate" (justwaitingforamate)
11/13/2014 at 00:28 • Filed to: None

Fuck...this...shit.

DISCUSSION (22)

Decay buys too many beaters > JustWaitingForAMate
11/13/2014 at 00:34

Last week I had my work hard drive give out. 1.5 years of design work and all the stuff I worked on but didn't release, gone.

Rainbow > JustWaitingForAMate
11/13/2014 at 00:35

I was actually thinking recently about how all of my baby pictures are safe in a photo album, but practically everyone out there who's 10 or under has no physical copies of their entire childhood. For most, all it would take is the absolute end of Facebook - which is inevitable, though probably not for at least another decade - to irreversibly delete every picture of them. I don't think any of us realize how many important things we keep stored in virtual data until, suddenly, it's all gone forever.

beardsbynelly - Rikerbeard > JustWaitingForAMate
11/13/2014 at 00:36

how badly has it died? I've used testdisk a few times in the past to get some info off some fairly borked HDD's.

http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/Main_Page

anything it can't get you'll need a forensic level recovery...

JGrabowMSt > JustWaitingForAMate
11/13/2014 at 00:37

Was it by chance a Seagate?

JGrabowMSt > Decay buys too many beaters
11/13/2014 at 00:38

Did you try to get any recovery quotes for it? Certain failures are cheap to recover

SlickMcRick > JustWaitingForAMate
11/13/2014 at 00:39

Kinja'd!!!

JustWaitingForAMate > JGrabowMSt
11/13/2014 at 00:41

Funnily enough, my Seagate is my primary, and has no issues, it was a WD.

JustWaitingForAMate > beardsbynelly - Rikerbeard
11/13/2014 at 00:42

Partition is gone, shows up as unallocated space, I've run 2 recovery programs so far, no joy.

JustWaitingForAMate > Rainbow
11/13/2014 at 00:43

I'm kicking myself for the pictures I lost, I've got multiple backups on dropbox, onedrive, google drive, but I'm not regimented enough to back stuff up.

Viggen9er3 > JustWaitingForAMate
11/13/2014 at 00:43

For ideas going forward, try backing important data up on dropbox, or google drive and encrypt it.

JustWaitingForAMate > Viggen9er3
11/13/2014 at 00:44

Yeah, I've got a system in place...that I follow...every now and then...when I remember...

Decay buys too many beaters > JGrabowMSt
11/13/2014 at 00:44

Ive run several data recovery programs and reclaimed all but my CAD folder. Most of it is backed up on our company archives, but it will take weeks to track it all down (and this is only my released parts)

oh well, used it as an excuse to request a new Samsung 850 pro SSD

RiceRocketeer Extraordinaire > JustWaitingForAMate
11/13/2014 at 00:51

Took a hard drive failure for me to realize how cheap hard drives are relative to the cost of data. RAID1 and cloud storage, disk replacement every 2 years.

beardsbynelly - Rikerbeard > JustWaitingForAMate
11/13/2014 at 00:53

whelp. sounds like you need a NAS on RAID 10 with automated daily backups. Keep some work data on it and claim depreciation on tax ;)

JustWaitingForAMate > beardsbynelly - Rikerbeard
11/13/2014 at 01:08

Anything even remotely PC related is claimed on tax.

BATC42 > JustWaitingForAMate
11/13/2014 at 03:15

I once wiped, by accident, almost 1 TB of data on my external HDD. I was cloning SD cards for a project, the HDD was plugged in, chose the wrong drive in the program I was using, confirmed it, realised 1/2 second too late what I had done...

JGrabowMSt > Decay buys too many beaters
11/13/2014 at 05:05

Easeus Data Recovery is very good, if you want to give that a try. No quick process though.

Since the drive isnt totally dead, a data recovery lab may be able to recover even more for a not very bad price.

JGrabowMSt > JustWaitingForAMate
11/13/2014 at 05:07

Does the drive show up as raw/unformatted, or does it just click when plugged in?

spanfucker retire bitch > JustWaitingForAMate
11/13/2014 at 07:23

I had one of my 2TB drives die in my 4TB RAID 0 array over the weekend. Thankfully however, I had everything backed up. Did you not? Because that would suck.

Decay buys too many beaters > JGrabowMSt
11/13/2014 at 11:18

Tried easeus first. Took 23 hours and got back most of my non cad documents.

JustWaitingForAMate > JGrabowMSt
11/13/2014 at 13:40

shows as uninitialized. When viewing it in drive manager it shows a 2tb block of unalocated space.

JGrabowMSt > JustWaitingForAMate
11/13/2014 at 13:46

Try Easeus Data recovery. Its what I use at my shop. Not perfect, but much better than most other programs.