On Tue, January 12, 2010 16:24, Don Roberts wrote: > 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. Ouch! That's gotta hurt. And you'd even worked pretty darned hard to do it right, and mostly had. Maybe I'd better update *my* collection of off-site DVDs :-). -- David Dyer-Bennet, dd-b@xxxxxxxx; http://dd-b.net/ Snapshots: http://dd-b.net/dd-b/SnapshotAlbum/data/ Photos: http://dd-b.net/photography/gallery/ Dragaera: http://dragaera.info
