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Bummer! Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2010 16:24:00 -0600 From: droberts@xxxxxxxxxx Subject: New but old thread To: photoforum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 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 Hotmail: Trusted email with powerful SPAM protection. Sign up now. |
