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Dropped Hard Drive, Stopped Working!!! HELP!

Discussion in 'Technology Advice' started by Brom27, Dec 17, 2016.

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  1. Timmers
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    Timmers Well-Known Member Trusted Member

    I will answer this on your other thread, this is not the right thread :)
    Timmers, Dec 17, 2016
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  2. Brom27
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    Brom27 Well-Known Member Trusted Member

    Unfortunately I don't know anyone that's the problem.
    Brom27, Dec 17, 2016
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  3. Brom27
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    Brom27 Well-Known Member Trusted Member

    But I live in a small town in Mindanao not sure if anyone's capable of doing this. Nevertheless I learned my lesson should probably use my DropBox.
    Brom27, Dec 17, 2016
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  4. Brom27
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    Brom27 Well-Known Member Trusted Member

    Depends on the owner I'm afraid.
    Brom27, Dec 17, 2016
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  5. graham59
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    graham59 Banned

    Well let's not be too negative about Filipinos, eh. :rolleyes:
    graham59, Dec 17, 2016
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  6. Timmers
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    Timmers Well-Known Member Trusted Member

    We live and learn young man, don't let it get you down :)
    Timmers, Dec 17, 2016
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  7. oss
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    oss Somewhere Staff Member

    Brom you need someone with access to a data recovery program that can read physical disks really it is that simple, anyone who has such a program (app) will be able to tell you immediately if the problem is physical damage or not.
    oss, Dec 17, 2016
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  8. Brom27
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    Brom27 Well-Known Member Trusted Member

    Now I wish you're here. Lol. Anyway now I'm tempted to accept the offer from a friend of friend. He said he could recover the file but won't be able to save the drive itself. Now my partner tells me I should wait till I get to the UK and we will do it there since there are many trusted people who can do it in the UK than here. So I'll probably suffer for a while for now.
    Brom27, Dec 17, 2016
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  9. Brom27
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    I'll try to look for one here although might be difficult. But thank you for the suggestion.
    Brom27, Dec 17, 2016
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  10. oss
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    Sod the racism and inject a little bit of reality, if you tried to fix this problem on the high street in Britain you would fail for exactly the same reasons, your average local bloke that knows computers will fail with this specific problem that is why the real recovery experts charge thousands for this.

    My industry Graham I know exactly what I am talking about and for me all data is precious and I hate to see anyone in the situation where they have lost part of their life.
    oss, Dec 17, 2016
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  11. oss
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    Data recovery should always put the drive in readonly mode, nothing should ever be written back there are many programs but the best ones require the user to have some skill, be careful.
    oss, Dec 17, 2016
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  12. Brom27
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    Half of my life is literally on this drive. I'll be very upset if I won't recover the files. Forget the movies but thousands of my pictures are here and I can't go back and take the same picture again. My fault, I know.
    Brom27, Dec 17, 2016
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    Yeah I'll try to be wise with people I'm asking for help. Thank you, I appreciate it.
    Brom27, Dec 17, 2016
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  14. Maharg
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    Always back up your hard drive. Something like this could happen at any time.

    I have everything backed up. You can get a back up drive really cheap in a pc store.

    Bit late with the advice maybe, but never depend on a hard drive lasting forever.
    Maharg, Dec 17, 2016
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  15. Brom27
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    Brom27 Well-Known Member Trusted Member

    Yes, lesson learned.
    Brom27, Dec 17, 2016
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  16. oss
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    Yeah Brom it is the pictures that hurt, I am a software engineer but I was also a professional photographer once upon a time, my personal family pictures and my attempts at anything arty are duplicated on four hard drives in more than one physical location with an additional full online backup in a totally secure encrypted vault.

    Drives fail, I have owned and still have over 100 hard drives of various sizes that I have accumulated over the last 27 years, one day I will go through my archive many are tiny compared to todays drives but all of them matter to me, a lot of the content is duplicated elsewhere but the originals are still important to me.

    At the end of the day you need a back up strategy but I do understand how hard that can be in the Philippines, I have tried to be multiply redundant for my family over there but I worry that they will not understand the systems that I have put in place for them for our family history.
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    oss, Dec 17, 2016
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  17. Brom27
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    I could give you more than a like rating. Well said there. Amazing how you're very organized, passion-driven and wise in dealing with things. Wish I'm also like that but as you said it will be difficult here. My resources are limited and can't get everything I need.

    Well at least I learned something today. But still hoping for the best to get my files back. Thank you. :)
    Brom27, Dec 17, 2016
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  18. Jim
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    I wish you the very best of luck Brom. :)
    Jim, Dec 17, 2016
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  19. Brom27
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    Aww thank you Jim. I needed that.. ;)
    Brom27, Dec 17, 2016
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  20. bigmac
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    bigmac Well-Known Member Trusted Member

    no--seriously--not being funny. i saw a tv programme where an onboard hard drive was being tested--to destruction. it withstood a great deal of punishment. but i could well imagine a laptop not surviving a fall--but the hard drive could well be perfectly ok--in another machine.
    bigmac, Dec 17, 2016
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