Comments on: R.I.P HD (2007-2009)

By: hijinksensu5337

hijinksensu5337 — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 03:06:30 +0000

Im insane about it now. Multiple redundant backups always.

By: mathew

mathew — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 04:13:36 +0000

Oh.So terrible.I always forgot to backup frequently

By: HijiNKS Ensue - Geek Webcomic - Updates Monday, Wednesday and Friday » Archive » Saying Goodbye Is The Hardest Partition

Wed, 29 Apr 2009 20:41:46 +0000

[...] Goodbye Is The Hardest Partition As many of you already know, the hard drive in my Macbook Pro died last week. It was working just fine then all of a sudden my machine locked up. I had just plugged in an [...]

By: lverhulst

lverhulst — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 23:25:19 +0000

I've heard good things about Spinrite recovering data from a hard drive. http://www.grc.com/sr/testimonials.htm

By: merbrat

merbrat — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 22:41:10 +0000

We have "PC Guru" (Austin) and such…maybe you have one of those shops in your area?
They charge a hefty fee, but they can recover amazing things, They just have bigger
magic than us users. (I have a friend who used to work at one)
Since the Generous FBs have saved you some $$, maybe you can afford teh Pro Save.

By: FurrTheBear

FurrTheBear — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 22:08:58 +0000

If the drive is still recognized as existing but you can't get any further – find a friend with a PC and a copy of SpinRite 6. It won't fix a hardware failure – but what it can do is pretty amazing. It's saved my bacon – where by "bacon" I mean "data" – several times.

By: hijinksensue

hijinksensue — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 16:43:16 +0000

Ill be doing to "walk of infrequent back up shame" to Frys this afternoon. Hopefully I'll have a working machine by this evening. I imagine the restore will take a bit of time.

By: Joshua Starr

Joshua Starr — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 16:42:34 +0000

Man, that sucks so much. I went through something similar when my Macbook Pro was jacked from the office. I was teh dumbs too, as I had it set to backup my data once a week. It happens nightly now.

Have you tried the drive in an external enclosure? If it's recognizable as a disk, you might be able to copy it sector by sector. Maybe.

By: warholreject

warholreject — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 15:51:50 +0000

Dang… Sorry to hear about all that – Well, at least HDD's (especially that configuration) aren't that expensive anymore… upgraded mine recently (willingly though) to a faster, larger capacity drive for less than 100 beans… I know, I know, every bean counts… but hey, better a handful of beans than a bushel…