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Just relating a situation many of you may have faced.
I backed up all photo files to 2 different 500 GB hard drives but never
made a disk -mistake, I know - and I never used the drives at the same
time they were always turned off until I needed a photo. A couple of
weeks ago I accessed a photo on the older of the drives and had
problems. I assumed that drive was biting the dust - it had become
unreadable - so I turned it off and turned on the new drive. Shortly I
ran into problems there as well. Making the story shorter, my computer
went berserk and the drive interfaces somehow corrupted both drives. I
replace the computer, yes, a Mac, and tried to recover images. No
luck. I was able to format the newer drive and reuse it. I bought
Disk Doctor Image Recovery software and ran it on the remaining drive.
The good news is that it worked and recovered most if not all of the
images; the bad news is that they are in generic files with generic
file names and the only way I can use them is to examine each file,
thousands, and then rename and resort. At least I got them back but
this will occupy me for some time. Don |
