That'll be that then...!

[Malc]

Just dropping by to wish you guys all the best in your future ventures, I'm calling it a day.

On Sunday, my secondary HD failed, and with it has gone over five years of saves - VB projects, Panama, Work docs, Personal docs, the whole bloody lot.

The most annoying bit is the HD is barely six months old. It was a Maxtor 160Gb SATA thing. I had two in my PC, one I'd use for OS and installed programs, the other for anything and everything I save, including downloaded stuff etc. There was about 100Gb on it when it packed up. To say I am totally f*****g gutted is an understatement. I know I should have backed up critical stuff to CD/DVD more often, but after five years of using the same method I got kinda complacent.

Good luck folks!

[i_hawk]

Sad to hear that man... but just if you haven't tried yet, there are professional companies who should know how to get such info out of a dead HD. no promises but i think documents are easier to save since are smaller. it does cost... but of course depends on importance of stuff you got there.

[noname]

[quote="Malc"][/quote]

Well this is realy bad luck but before you give up you should try this tool : http://www.stellarinfo.com/
I was able to resore most data from my HD when it crashed half a year ago with this tool.

So good luck with it

[T_Rex]

[phoenix]

Sorry for your trouble malc...

Maybe a couple of us could get together and replace some of your data by uploading to filefront or somewhere.

Bastard maxtor are well known for crashing out

[Sherlock]

Malc,
another utility that a friend of mine recently used (he had the same problem) was

OnTrack EasyRecovery Professional

He downloaded the demo and it pulled nearly everything off his TWO bad hard drives that he needed. He recommended it to me.

Hate to see you pack it up man. You've been a great contributor to Falcon! Please don't go!

[Skwabie]

Malc,

I feel sorry for the incident. Like a nightmare coming true. 100GB must be a lot of valuable stuff. Try some recovery method guys above posted could be a good idea.

[Malc]

Been looking into it a good bit today - the disk isn't spinning up to speed at all. The good folks at PC World where it was bought will happily replace the device itself under warranty, but as for lost data they say its neither theirs as a retailer or Maxtors as a manufacturer liability, and sure enough the manual that came with it does say that.

They also gave me a website of people who will remove the platters and recover the data, so I'll await to see how much that will cost. Matey reckons "It ain't cheap"...

Time will tell.

[ysam]

Malc, my first post in the wrong thread

I hope I see no more posts like this in any forum..

Patience is a virtue !!!