Data Recovery

[cicfada]

Hi folks, today started off well but now I am in deep depression. A couple of weeks ago I brought in an external drive to get looked at! The 2 lights that should have come on were not. Lo and behold today they told me that all the data was lost from the drive. "All" includes photographs from the last 5 years of my 3 boys!! The pics had been moved to the drive in the first place as I got my computer wiped/cleaned  last year and it was then that I moved all to the drive. I have not felt so low in a long while to be honest. The guy in the shop is trying one last thing, something about a plate or something but he says that this has little chance of success. Then maybe I could send it  to england where there are some experts appparantly!! PLease God that might work!!!

[ardmhachaabu]

If the drive is that damaged you will have no option but to do just that

Google is your friend on this one.  You don't want to pick the first one someone tells you, do the research yourself and find out who is offering the best price for the work

They are expensive though so be warned

[ross4life]

if the original pictures  were on your computer &  you transferred them to external hardrive you maybe be able to save them?

try downloading a restoration to recover deleted files

[cicfada]

Thanks lads/lassies?? for your kind comments. I don't think that that deleted file recovery is an option as the computer  was given a hard clean/ full wipe or whatever it's called last year!! I know that the final option of sending it to england will be expensivce... up to €1000!! But the pics are priceless to  be honest!!

[mylestheslasher]

Thanks lads/lassies?? for your kind comments. I don't think that that deleted file recovery is an option as the computer  was given a hard clean/ full wipe or whatever it's called last year!! I know that the final option of sending it to england will be expensivce... up to €1000!! But the pics are priceless to  be honest!!

You should be able to get it done much cheaper than that. I think I checked this before and got a price for €150, do a google search on it.

[ardmhachaabu]

I Googled about a year ago and the best price I got then was £150 per GB

[Lady GAA GAA]

[Puckoon]

Sorry to hear that, Ive lost about 1000 pictures of the daughter in the last year due to an accidental restoring of the iphone, and a theft. Its heart breaking to lose them.

[heganboy]

Similar problem last year, backed everything to an external drive and then "lost" everything on it. Did a bit of research and found a firm that specializes in this kind of thing. Cost me $600 and I now use a drobo. To prevent it ever happening again

[Norf Tyrone]

Ah Cic. That's a sickener.

I almost had the same mess this week. Pictures of the two babies from the last 5 years on my PC. It had started to give a bit of jip, so as a precaution I backed up all my pics to an external drive. Lo and behold the PC has now crashed and I think it's banjaxed.

I too was sick until I go the pictures backed up. Hope it works out for you.

[amallon]

cicfada sorry for your bother.  There are two components to an external hard drive, the drive itself and the enclosure.  If you aren't seeing lights on your external hd it could be something wrong with what limited electronics there are in the enclosure your drive could be in perfect shape.  I'd hope that whoever you had look at it removed the drive from the enclosure and connected it to his machine directly with a USB to IDE/SATA connector.  I'd get a second opinion from a good IT person locally to you before I send it off to a data recovery specialist.  It would be useful to know what utilites the first guy who looked at it used. 

[DickyRock]

Recovered the bro in laws stuff the other week. Drive wouldn't show up in windows at all. Used a Linux live cd and managed to get everything off. If you're around Belfast then drop me a pm and I'll have a look at it. If not I'll write up what I did later

[clarshack]

hard drive failures are very common. always back up important stuff like family photos to another location besides your PC such as an external hard drive or dvd.

[cicfada]

Thanks for all your messages. Just to clarify it is an external drive that is in question. It is an Iomega 460gig drive. It was not dropped or damaged at all but it is about 5 or 6 years old! I will find out from the guy in the shop how exactly he looked at it! I have another guy that I can use here in Cork to look at it for me! Hopefully all is not lost!!

[Karl Kennedy]

Hi folks, today started off well but now I am in deep depression. A couple of weeks ago I brought in an external drive to get looked at! The 2 lights that should have come on were not. Lo and behold today they told me that all the data was lost from the drive. "All" includes photographs from the last 5 years of my 3 boys!! The pics had been moved to the drive in the first place as I got my computer wiped/cleaned  last year and it was then that I moved all to the drive. I have not felt so low in a long while to be honest. The guy in the shop is trying one last thing, something about a plate or something but he says that this has little chance of success. Then maybe I could send it  to england where there are some experts appparantly!! PLease God that might work!!!

hi i have an external hard drive aswel but thankfully nothing has happened to it yet and reading the posts ere it cud happen sometime down the line.

With regards the photos I have on the hard drive I make sure I have them on photobox and snapfish in case anything goes wrong. Anyone else use these websites for photos?