This just sucks.
I don't know whether I should just sit here and cry or curl up in the fetal position and cry.
My external hard drive just took a shit.
Like, 15 gigs of music...gone.
The web pages I've been working on for me and the boys...gone.
Those are but drops in the bucket. Here's the worst part:
All of the pictures my wife and I have been taking for the last year-and-a-half...gone.
The reason for the external drive was just in case the computer tanked. HA!! Joke's on me.
I was only able to contact one place that does data recovery at this hour. The quote? Around $800.
This just fucking sucks.
Fuck!
My external hard drive just took a shit.
Like, 15 gigs of music...gone.
The web pages I've been working on for me and the boys...gone.
Those are but drops in the bucket. Here's the worst part:
All of the pictures my wife and I have been taking for the last year-and-a-half...gone.
The reason for the external drive was just in case the computer tanked. HA!! Joke's on me.
I was only able to contact one place that does data recovery at this hour. The quote? Around $800.
This just fucking sucks.
Fuck!
If the drive has stopped spinning you may have one last shot at getting the data. First, make sure you have enough space on the PC hard drive. Second, buy a small piece (paperback) sized piece of dry ice. What you will do then is stick the external hard drive in the freezer for twenty minutes. Put your dry ice in a pie pan and put a plate over that. Take external out and place it on the plate. Fire everything up. See if you can get the data. I know it sounds crazy, but it works.
If that doesn't make sure the problem isn't actually the enclosure isn't the part that has failed. How do you do that? Call your computer nerd friend Will.
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We have decided to let the good folks at my wife's place of employment give it a shot. Oddly enough she tells me someone else brought one in yesterday with the same/similar problem. I will pass on the dry ice idea. How'd you hear that one?
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It's a hold over from when hard drives were in the MB range instead of GB and there wasn't a lot of data to move.
When your drive can't spin any more it can be several mechanical reasons. Sticking the drive in a freezer (inside a ziplock bag, forgot that part) parts expand, re-establishing some contacts that normally aren't contacting. Just one of those things you hear about. The fix is very temporary so that's why I modified it with the dry ice idea as well to keep a "cold plate" for it to rest on.
I was thinking specfiically for just trying to get the photos since the most life you'll get out of it is probably 20 minutes.
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http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=2006110111270170
Some people say overnight (so 8 to 12 hours).
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