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Does anyone know of ways to prevent a hard drive crash? Or is it something that will inevitably and unexpectedly happen?
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quote:Originally posted by Talos: Does anyone know of ways to prevent a hard drive crash? Or is it something that will inevitably and unexpectedly happen?
Most modern day desktops anyway are rated around 5-6 years of moderate to heavy service, and it can be sudden. It might give you a couple days of really laggy performance if you're lucky.
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quote:Originally posted by NorcalfeetStudios: Just contact the Russian pirates who downloaded all of our archives and distributed them to the pirate sites and all those flop & choppers on social media. I'm sure between both of them you could recreate that whole lost set
I wish! These are the Canon Raw (.CR2) files I'm talking about. I have all the downsized and stamped versions of the photos. It's the high resolution, right off the camera files I lost.
quote:Originally posted by hyperion: In all seriousness Patrick, there is data rescue software out there that could recover what's on your optical media. I've used some before with some success, but it was years ago and I can't remember the vendor. PCmag.com does reliable reviews of stuff, maybe check out what they like.
Years ago when Carmen returned to Soles of Silk I had an XD card for my old Fuji FinePix camera fail to show any data on the drive. It showed there was storage occupied on the drive, however. Someone on this forum suggested a program that rescued all the data for me. I rewarded him with 6 months of membership time.
Knowing this, I've tried using several programs that do similar things for these DVDs. So far, several programs on both a PC and Mac have managed only to get me several photos if I'm lucky.
What happens is I go to rescue the photos and it'll grab the first couple. When it hits one it can't read, I can leave the rescue go for two days and it doesn't budge. Sometimes it'll even lock up the PC.
Do you know of any good programs or places where I can get this rescued? Hell, I've even thought about just sucking up my pride and letting a professional take a crack at it. Hopefully he has a foot fetish so I can give him some membership time too. LOL
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If you're just replacing the failed drive with another of the same type, you're essentially right back in the same situation, just a matter of time before it eventually dies again, unless you have more than one copy of your data.
For the money spent, higher quality internal hard drives can be had, than paying for external enclosures that often come with cheap low quality drives inside.
I like the Western Digital Black series drives for example that come with a 5 year warranty.
But if you're going for an inexpensive external drive, get one with two disks mirrored Raid 1, so that if one disk dies, you still have a backup copy on the other.
Originally posted by Patrick:
quote:These are the Canon Raw (.CR2) files I'm talking about. I have all the downsized and stamped versions of the photos. It's the high resolution, right off the camera files I lost.
At least you tried to save them. A lot of photographers throw away (.jpg) their digital negatives straight out of the camera.
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