[Antman27]

Hello all so my external HD with 8 years of pix and about 7000 songs crashed -
Someone was telling me they have herd of some software I can install on my PC that will alow me to connect my Ipod to my PC and reverse -put the songs back on the PC

Is this true ?? If so what is it !!

[satfrat]

You never had all that material backed up? Cardinal sin my friend,,, never depend on 1 hard drive for anything important. A hard drive, like any computer part, has a lifesapn and won't last forever. I've had friends that have had their hard drive info retrieved after a crash but i know nothing about it. Hopefully someone here does. I have over 3000 albums on my hard drive,,,, on my 2 hard drives that is. and when 1 fails, I'll have another one there yesterday to takes it's place as a library backup!.


Cheers(and good luck),
Robin

[Antman27]

http://www.copytrans.net/

[cliffy]

You never had all that material backed up? Cardinal sin my friend,,, never depend on 1 hard drive for anything important. A hard drive, like any computer part, has a lifesapn and won't last forever. I've had friends that have had their hard drive info retrieved after a crash but i know nothing about it. Hopefully someone here does. I have over 3000 albums on my hard drive,,,, on my 2 hard drives that is. and when 1 fails, I'll have another one there yesterday to takes it's place as a library backup!.


Cheers(and good luck),
Robin

A couple of years ago I had a hard drive on a laptop and a home computer fail.  Look for a computer disaster recovery company near you.  I live in the SF Bay Area so I had no problem finding one.  Unfortunately, it cost about $900, per occurrence  

They don't give discounts just because the drive hasn't been dropped from a 10 story building, run over by a truck, submerged in the ocean and set on fire.

[satfrat]

You never had all that material backed up? Cardinal sin my friend,,, never depend on 1 hard drive for anything important. A hard drive, like any computer part, has a lifesapn and won't last forever. I've had friends that have had their hard drive info retrieved after a crash but i know nothing about it. Hopefully someone here does. I have over 3000 albums on my hard drive,,,, on my 2 hard drives that is. and when 1 fails, I'll have another one there yesterday to takes it's place as a library backup!.


Cheers(and good luck),
Robin

A couple of years ago I had a hard drive on a laptop and a home computer fail.  Look for a computer disaster recovery company near you.  I live in the SF Bay Area so I had no problem finding one.  Unfortunately, it cost about $900, per occurrence  

They don't give discounts just because the drive hasn't been dropped from a 10 story building, run over by a truck, submerged in the ocean and set on fire.

Yea, that's what I thought but $900???? I don't think so.  Personally it makes life a whole lot easier to simply invest in a second, third, fourth,,, as many hard drives as it takes to insure that all your eggs aren't in 1 basket. I have 4 hard drives at the moment, running out of USB ports and I'm reaching the point where I'll need to consolidate them into a Media Center. 

Cheers,
Robin

[Double Ugly]

SpinRite is an exceptional program, but I don't know if it'll help you after the fact.  Maybe you can load it on a functioning HD and retrieve the information from the one that has died.

Regardless, it's a great way to prepare for (and even stave off) the inevitable crash, especially if you're remiss in backing up your data. 

It sure beats paying $900 to have someone else recover it for you. 

[SET Man]

Hey!

    Oh! Crap that remind me that I didn't do my monthly back up this month yet! 

    Yes, I back up my stuff on 2 external HDDs.... one is a back up HDD to back up the main back up HDD ... uhhh well you get the idea

     About 2 years ago my HDD in my PowerBook die. But luckily I backed up every thing on those 2 external HDDs. So, I didn't loose much. Otherwise I would loose all those photos files and that would have been a disaster for me.

   And of course for a safe measure. I'm planning to replace the main back up HDD when it reach 5 year old. Well, these things are getting  cheaper every day so I can't see why not for a piece of mind.

Take care,
Buddy