Massive Crash !!!!

[martauto]

I have a two year old pc tower , hp and entry level at that and last week it crashed big style leaving me with nothing at all left to recover ( I have tried) but I backed all my "stuff" up to a seagram one terabite external drive and thought things are not this bad.
They are !!
I started to bring info back to the pc , which is working fine, and it then said it could not recognise the drive and it was corrupted.
My arse fell out as all my pics etc were on there .
My lad is having a look at his for the moment but I really could do with some help here if you could please ??
Restoring my pics and other bits of info would mean the bloody world to me right now so any help please guy`s ??



Mart.

[HenryM3]

Really do feel for you in this, many years ago I was with one of those sites which stored stuff for a fee, ended up going abroad (military) and didn’t renew fee and lost about 15 years of pics. Argued for months with no joy. Hope you have a good outcome.

[Satan]

Load the ops sys on another drive and try to connect to the drive that crashed to see if you can get the data off, if that fails then using a Linux boot partition may access the drive, I once rescued a mates data as the controller board failed on the hard drive we where lucky or he was lucky as we managed to track the same hard drive down swapped the controller board over and rescued the data.

There are pro recovery companies out there but its £500 minimum for data extraction.

Is the drive the data on encrypted?

[DanThe]

As above id contact a company that does data recovery, there are loads more about now and I would like to think its now a lot cheaper than it used to be

[Blanca]

Good news is nothing on a HD is 'lost', only the address in the index so the HD can't find it. there are several utilities , some free, some paid for, that can be used to recover data from crashed drives such as 'recoverit' It can take a long time churning away but it will recover most, if not all of your files.

Once you have recovered them upload to www.vgy.me. it is a free archiver, I have a lot of photos on mine. I used to use Photobucket until they got greedy and went pay only and then regressed to water marking everything not paid for.

https://recoverit.wondershare.com/hardd ... overy.html

[martauto]

Load the ops sys on another drive and try to connect to the drive that crashed to see if you can get the data off, if that fails then using a Linux boot partition may access the drive, I once rescued a mates data as the controller board failed on the hard drive we where lucky or he was lucky as we managed to track the same hard drive down swapped the controller board over and rescued the data.
Is the drive the data on encrypted?

Totally lost me there Stefan, but thanks anyway.

Mart.

[fixedwheelnut]

A common saying amongst IT people is that Data does not really exist unless it is stored in three different formats.

I had my PC built with three extra storage drives that I back up too as well as two large external drives.

You could try an external hard drive reader that just uses the bare hard drive removed from the PC as they bypass the failed PC then.
Good luck hope you get it back.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Sabrent-Extern ... 2813&psc=1

[martauto]

I just bought another pc tower for just over £200 from Curry`s, it`s the entry level yet again but it will more than suit what I need it for.
Thanks for the input (I had no idea what most of it ment. lol ) but my lad is working on the external drive so we will see what happens there !
For the price of getting up and running again soon and also keeping the original "offender" for future investigations, I`m sort of happy but it`s a new toy so I have to be glad and I am .lol

Cheers again,, Mart.

[Satan]

But on the plus side 100GB's of Baur pictures have gone to the PC Data Graveyard ;p))))

Only joking if you need a hand get it touch as I did get you other stuff back for you.

[Satan]

I just bought another pc tower for just over £200 from Curry`s, it`s the entry level yet again but it will more than suit what I need it for.
Thanks for the input (I had no idea what most of it ment. lol ) but my lad is working on the external drive so we will see what happens there !
For the price of getting up and running again soon and also keeping the original "offender" for future investigations, I`m sort of happy but it`s a new toy so I have to be glad and I am .lol

Cheers again,, Mart.

You can try to add the corrupted drive as a second drive to the new tower and see if the data can be accessed as the Master Boot Record may have been corrupted its a bit like losing the Index so you don't know where to go or where you are.

Personally when I had a tower my operating system was on one drive and the data saved to the second drive in the tower, now I use NAS with for HD's split in to pairs for the data the really really important stuff is backed up on a security protected drive. All passwords are get on a Post It stuck to my monitor ;o))))

[martauto]

But on the plus side 100GB's of Baur pictures have gone to the PC Data Graveyard ;p))))

Only joking if you need a hand get it touch as I did get you other stuff back for you.

Thanks Stefan, I will pm you mate.

Mart.

[Satan]

Just do what Gary Glitter did..........

[martauto]

Just do what Gary Glitter did..........

Oh ....go on then ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

Mart.

[Satan]

I meant don't do what Gary Glitter did.......

https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/jan/11/simonjeffery

[rix313]

Last summer I had a similar scare Mart. My laptop went down and the error was corrupt hard drive. Was right in the middle of me working on my wiring loom and the full plan and design was on it, along with, everything I've ever documented for my cars, so 15 years worth. Took it to a forensic specialist who, to be frank, were useless and wanted an obscene amount of money and no promise they could save it. Brought it back home and messed about with it. Turned out the ribbon cable had died, swapped it out and thank fuck it came back to life! I have a back up drive (must do that actually!) and a M$ onedrive account now,

[Satan]

Last summer I had a similar scare Mart. My laptop went down and the error was corrupt hard drive. Was right in the middle of me working on my wiring loom and the full plan and design was on it, along with, everything I've ever documented for my cars, so 15 years worth. Took it to a forensic specialist who, to be frank, were useless and wanted an obscene amount of money and no promise they could save it. Brought it back home and messed about with it. Turned out the ribbon cable had died, swapped it out and thank fuck it came back to life! I have a back up drive (must do that actually!) and a M$ onedrive account now,

Reminds me of when I was looking after Unix accounts systems in the day and the Data Drive for a Solicitors in Bromley would get lost, after a few visits I worked out the SCSI cable was a tad short the quick fix was to support the HD on elastic bands until a longer SCSI cable was ordered, I was an IT God in those days, look at me now though lol.......

[rix313]

Love it haha!