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Panic mode: HD not working
Bob2004:
--- Quote from: GoGeTa006 on January 17, 2012, 11:44:35 PM ---so I would need another TB hard drive? cause the drive's size is 1 TB, but I know theres no more than 600 GB there. . . ill try directly with the hard drive. . .Im hoping that its not on as much of a critical condition as you make it sound to be :P
i found some nice software for recovering data, just gonna get some money to buy a hard drive and we'll go from there. . .
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Yeah, hopefully it won't be as critical as I make it sound like, but the trouble is you can never tell - and it's better safe than sorry. It's up to you though; buying the extra hard drive space needed to back up the damaged drive is expensive (especially since you still need somewhere else to put the recovered data, at least temporarily), so I don't blame you for wanting to avoid it. Fingers crossed the drive won't die before you've had a good crack at recovering the data.
Good luck using the software you've found to try and recover it; I don't know much about drive recovery software, so I can't offer you any advice on what program to use (post in a PC-centric forum for suggestions if you need them), but hopefully what you have will work.
--- Quote from: Freedom Kira on January 18, 2012, 01:22:39 PM ---Note that if you have a Linux machine or a friend who has a Linux machine, use that for dd instead of installing a new program. Linux can mount the resulting image right away as well, so you can read the drive image as soon as you're done, as if it was just another connected drive on the system.
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I agree, Linux is better, provided you have experience with it and understand the filesystem a bit, but I'm guessing GoGeta doesn't; hence Windows. That said, for reference, if you do know how to use Linux, the dd command is built in, so you just need to boot up a live cd, open a terminal and run "dd if=/dev/sda1 of=/home/Bob/drive.img bs=10M", replacing /dev/sda1 with the drive you're recovering, and /home/Bob/drive.img with the img file you want it to output it to. That will achieve exactly the same results as my previous post.
It's true Linux is also better at dealing with img files, but my understanding is that Windows Vista/7 can also mount img files natively (though not as conveniently), so it should be easily usable whichever OS you use.
wizisi2k:
in my personal experience with a formatted drive, I found r-studio to be VERY useful in getting access at the formatted drive info. First you would need a disk image taken of the drive (1:1 copy to a 2 TB drive would be best and may take a few hours). Then you make a scan of the drive (takes MANY hours), then you open the partitions it shows and see which 1 has your anime on it. Then try recovering the data. There will be some CRC checking to do if files are damaged and it is POSSIBLE 100% of the data will not be recoverable but it's worth a shot
GoGeTa006:
got a 750 GB from ebay at 60 dlls. . . it shall be my tool for recovering ~500 GB of anime. . .
let us pray so that none of the data is corrupted and I can smile again knowing that if for some reason I was locked in a room with my computer for months I could have some anime to re-watch. . .
Freedom Kira:
You're, uh, not going to be able to image your drive. I hope you made your purchase knowing that. You're going to have to take the risk of losing your entire drive when you fire it up and hope that whatever file recovery tool you're using works (by losing the drive I mean it might not fire up again if you end up shutting it back off).
GoGeTa006:
--- Quote from: Freedom Kira on January 20, 2012, 07:21:04 AM ---You're, uh, not going to be able to image your drive. I hope you made your purchase knowing that. You're going to have to take the risk of losing your entire drive when you fire it up and hope that whatever file recovery tool you're using works (by losing the drive I mean it might not fire up again if you end up shutting it back off).
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yeah I know. . .but TB hard drives are way higher in price. . .even used ones go at least at 100 bux. . .and Im not in a situation like that. . .TBH I AM HOPING that its not in such a crucial state and I am putting my trust in the software. . .
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