3DAll my threads........DEAD......

markmassey

I just thought id post this thread to say that as of today all my threads are dead..

I had to wipe my laptop over the weeknd, so i backed everything onto an external hard drive and now thats died... so i've lost pretty much everything.. I'm trying some data recovery software but im not hopefully. the external drive is doing that clicking thing..

Thank you to everyone who has followed and commented on my wips, i appreciate you taking the time to do so..

Take this as lesson learned... From now on i'm going to back up my back up....

Tochiro76

What kind of laptop do you have?

What kind of hard drives were you using?

If you have a mac don't get those external WD drives because they don't get along with mac. The drives will go to sleep after a while and the mac doesn't like it. I have used WD caviar blue drives in external enclosures with mac and they stay awake in a sense that makes the mac happy without having to keep the platters spinning all the time.

Don't ever count on seagate hard drives for a laptop. The most common problem I have seen with seagate and laptops is the platters won't spin anymore so you can't recover data from them. But those platters are still in there. If you have enough knowledge of how hdd works you can find the same drive new and take both apart and switch platters and hope for the best lol. You could also pay a data recovery company to do the same since they know exactly what to do and how to do it but they are expensive.

<:K.I.S:>

If you are using a windows OS and reinstall even when reinstalling a fresh copy and not updating it should create a windows.old directory in your c: folder if thats what you have done you should be able to locate that directory and then just copy the files from there onto your new instalation instead of trying to recover the hard drive.

But that is just if you have done it on windows OS.

IRML

I've had the ticking hard disk, it wouldn't work at all and I thought I'd lost everything but still I never actually threw the drive away, after a year I found it and plugged it in again and I could get all my files back off it, it was slow and wouldn't be of much use in a PC, but it was definately stable enough to transfer all my files

my point is don't lose all hope just yet

Hundred

I dont know if any of these might help, but.... Good luck anyhow. :thumb:

How to rebuild a hard drive - Youtube

How to rebuild a hard drive - eHow

markmassey

thanks guys, the laptop is a dell inspiron 1520 the laptop has crashed like this a few times.... i blame porn sites...

But yes ive always been able to re install windows and get my data off the windows.old file. The trouble this time is that i did that then copied everything to my WD passport then formatted my laptop hard drive.... then when i came home from work to copy all the files back onto my laptop my passport wouldnt work.. The annoying thing is it was fine in work 20 minutes earlier..

I'm running a file recovery program on my laptop drive now to see if it can get any data of the formatted drive... which it seems to be doing, as for my passport i dont know.. It connects to the computer but doesnt show up. makes 4 clicks then powers down.. i've looked online and if i had the money id send it off to get it fixed, i dont want to try freezing it or taking it appart myself. so i think i'll do what IRML suggested and leave it for a while.. Then sneek up one day and plug it in before it realises what i'm doing..

NanoGator

There's a freezer trick you might consider looking into, but I've never trid it.

Tochiro76

Ok it is a passport drive, some or all of those WD external drives have been known to have too long a usb cable! Try shopping around for a shorter usb cable and also it should be a bit thicker too. Sometimes it is just the cable causing the problem of the drive showing up or not showing up. Also try a different usb port. Some laptop usb ports have this weird problem of not working just after you plug something in but the other ports work just fine... there is always that one port on just about all laptops.

tricky

there's software to recover files of even a formatted disk, I used some on my dad's computer after a similar experience, got everything back
Unfortunatly can't remember what the app i used was called, which doesn't help...

Dr-Timelord

I hope you're able to recover everything, dont lose hope yet

Aresius

I agree with the others, don't lose hope just yet. I once ahad my computer crash and both of my external drives (one of them being my mums drive to which I wanted to copy some works) were both crushed in the process. Neither computer recorgnised them.mum not hers and mine, and mine (after reinstalling windarft) not mine or hers. A friend of mine (Linux system admin) suggested to go into the bios and shut down all external storage ports (USB, but be careful if your keyboard is USB) and deactivate the external storage support, then restart (do NOT YET pull all wires of the externals), have the computer boot up like usually and then turn off the externals power-supply and detach them. Then shut the computer down, get into the bios and undo the changes. Restart, plug the externals first with the USB cable in, THEN activate the power supply.

Think of it as a cold-reboot for externals. It worked on my externals, they're Seagate and Captiva. No data was lost, so that's certainly a positive thing. Maybe you have luck.

reapers

I have had marginal success with the freezer trick so it is worth a shot. I had to do it several times. Cool drive for a few hours, let warm a bit, extract some files, cool, rinse, and repeat.

http://www.techspot.com/vb/topic138542.html

Also try: http://harddriveclicking.net/

Good luck. Now I just backup drives onto piles of drives.

markmassey

After hours of being read by recovery software my hard drive is dead.

I have recovered a few things off my laptop. Only a handfull of files though.. Moya and Talyn, my star trek ship, the CIC set from my galactica animation, and a few more files of other models and rigs.

So i'm going to start re painting the textures for moya and talyn first of all. then my trek ship..





I've also downloaded coxxons bsg fleet agian to re do my galactica animation.. this time it will be better... I'm not looking at a timeline for that yet...

SnowCrash

Moving forward you might want to try Dropbox. 2gig of free cloud storage. If you use this https://www.dropbox.com/referrals/NTg5OTA5ODk?src=global0 you'll get an extra 250mg through their referral system (and yes I get free space form people using that link to sign up as well )

Hope the data recovery goes well!