HELP! and I dont mean the song by the Beatles
Posted 05/07/2013 - 19:49
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If this happened I'd take the drive to my local computer shop and let the professionals do it. We have one about half a mile away, don't know about Glasgow!
Best regards, John
Posted 05/07/2013 - 23:18
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1st rule..... Don't do anything in haste.
2nd...........If you don't know what you're doing - don't do anything
Maybe these are back to front, but either way I think John's advise is sound. Just check that the 'repair man' also abides by the above.
As its not his data to loose he can afford to be a bit blase.
regards
Bernard
2nd...........If you don't know what you're doing - don't do anything
Maybe these are back to front, but either way I think John's advise is sound. Just check that the 'repair man' also abides by the above.
As its not his data to loose he can afford to be a bit blase.
regards
Bernard
Posted 06/07/2013 - 08:58
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^ yup. If the data is important, it's not a "computer shop" you need it's a qualified forensic recovery specialist.
Posted 06/07/2013 - 16:06
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That would be very expensive dpm, by "computer shop" I mean my local computer service specialist, but no need for fancy titles!
Best regards, John
Posted 06/07/2013 - 21:24
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personally John I'd have more faith in the average punter's abilities with some on-line coaching, than that of the average "IT pro".
JMHO, you understand.
JMHO, you understand.
Posted 09/07/2013 - 11:54
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The drive is a Packard Bell Store & Save. I think the culprit was a dodgy cable which lost contact whilst the drive was being written to but a couple of pieces of software seemed to have saved the day. A lot of time was wasted with a thing called Recuva which found both deleted and undeleted files but I got 'access denied' when I tried to recover them and technical support couldn't help at all. 7-Data Recovery Suite has done the trick with everything except Pentax RAW files but Camera Raw Photo Recovery is dealing with that. Interestingly in their blurb they say in comparison to other makes' RAW files, 'RAW photo format used in Pentax cameras. PEF images do not undergo any of these procedures and retain a wide color gamut and luminance range. Actually, raw images are pretty close to the real picture in terms of details and colors, because they contain much more information.'
But we all knew that anyway.
I know have very short fingernails.
But we all knew that anyway.
I know have very short fingernails.
Ken
“We must avoid however, snapping away, shooting quickly and without thought, overloading ourselves with unnecessary images that clutter our memory and diminish the clarity of the whole.” - Henri Cartier-Bresson -
“We must avoid however, snapping away, shooting quickly and without thought, overloading ourselves with unnecessary images that clutter our memory and diminish the clarity of the whole.” - Henri Cartier-Bresson -
Posted 09/07/2013 - 12:26
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Thanks for the update Ken. Pleased your data is intact. At present I store my stuff on a FreeNAS set up version 0.7.2. with two 300Gb drives. I read version 8 is terrible so wont attempt an "upgrade". As it runs on a home network I can store stuff from any computer.
Posted 09/07/2013 - 12:51
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I use Carbonite as an online backup and for some reason this drive wasn't assigned to it. Doh!
Ken
“We must avoid however, snapping away, shooting quickly and without thought, overloading ourselves with unnecessary images that clutter our memory and diminish the clarity of the whole.” - Henri Cartier-Bresson -
“We must avoid however, snapping away, shooting quickly and without thought, overloading ourselves with unnecessary images that clutter our memory and diminish the clarity of the whole.” - Henri Cartier-Bresson -
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Is their any way I can just restore of rebuild the file structure and directory?
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