Hard drive recovery

[Blurred]

Broken hard drive on MacBook pro, can anyone pull the media off it for cheap?
Had much of the blurred chrons on it when it shit the bed. Months of editing on it lost right now.

[Tye 1on]

tech talk jong.


sorry, somebody had to! There's some smart mac mags here [i'm sure not one] hope they can help you restore it!!!!!!!!!

[advres]

Dude... don't tell me you guys were editing from the system drive!!!! Didn't Guardian go to school for this (or planned on it)? That is rule numeral uno!

As far as recovering data, I have never personally had to go down that road. A client killed one of my 1TB drives FW drives and it cost them $5000 to recover all of the media and it wasn't a guaranteed process. There are much cheaper solutions but none of them are 100% guaranteed to work.

I'll let others who have gone through it help you out more than I can.

Good luck bro! It sucks losing awesome footy and lots of hard work.

[summit]

Does the drive spin up?

[dumpy]

Blurred, just cause it's you (I think you are the funneh), I'll respond to this here instead of bitching that it should be in tech talk.

Is the HD clicking?? If so you've probably got a mechanical failure, this is where the big bucks data recovery becomes nescesary. A poor man's version of this is to assemble the following items:

Another computer
Another HD
A IDE or SATA to USB or Firewire adapter (yank one out of a portable HD enclosure, or just use the enclosure if possible, see below)
Ziplock bag
A freezer

Put the HD in the bag, seal it tight. Stick it in the freezer for a few hours. The cold will affect different materials in different ways,expansion, contraction whatnot. Many times this will get your drive working temporarily.

Plug that shit and copy the most important stuff over while you've got a chance, your time will be limited. I've even heard of people running a cable right to the freezer and doing it while the drive is still in there.

If that doesn't work, sling more lattes and be prepared to pony up for very expensive data recovery.


If there isn't clicking, something maybe screwed up with your file system which is usually easier to fix than mechanical issues, but it may also mean that not all data is recoverable. There is software to fix this, google "data recovery software".

And for the love of god, get Mozy or a similar service. I get unlimited, offsite backups (even an external drive or a RAID1 set up is no use if my house catches fire) for like $6 a month. Well worth it in my book. It is slow as fuck to back up, but whatever, my shit is safe.


So Mac fan boys, gotta ask, I thought Macs, "just worked" and "didn't fail"?

[advres]

One more thing I forgot to ask. How do you know it is the drive? Is it making noise or is the machine not booting up? Have you tried connecting it to another mac via target disk mode and see if it will mount that way? Connect it to another running mac with firewire and turn on the bad lappy while holding down the "T" key. If it works you should see a firewire icon float around on the lappy screen and the lappy drive should mount to the other computers desktop. Basically it is turning the whole comp into a firewire drive.

[dumpy]

One more thing I forgot to ask. How do you know it is the drive? Is it making noise or is the machine not booting up? Have you tried connecting it to another mac via target disk mode and see if it will mount that way? Connect it to another running mac with firewire and turn on the bad lappy while holding down the "T" key. If it works you should see a firewire icon float around on the lappy screen and the lappy drive should mount to the other computers desktop. Basically it is turning the whole comp into a firewire drive.

Wow thats actually kind of a cool feature (would work great when transferring data from an old machine to a new one), but what if it's the mobo/internal connection thats bad? It wouldn't mount using this method if thats the case..

[advres]

Wow thats actually kind of a cool feature (would work great when transferring data from an old machine to a new one), but what if it's the mobo/internal connection thats bad? It wouldn't mount using this method if thats the case..

It is a handy feature indeed! True it may not always work depending on the problem with the comp. But say something got corrupted and the OS won't boot (could seem like a harddrive failure) this could be a nice work around to get shit off.

The only time I do this now is usually to boot from another comp so I can run utilities on the normal boot drive. It really is a handy feature and it's been part of the OS since the OS 8 days before yuppies sipping their lattes bought Apple

[stevesmith7]

If the drive hardware isn't broken but it won't mount get a copy of Disk Warrior. I've had luck recovering data on what seemed like a dead drive.

[Whiteroom_Guardian]

Dude... don't tell me you guys were editing from the system drive!!!! Didn't Guardian go to school for this (or planned on it)? That is rule numeral uno!

As far as recovering data, I have never personally had to go down that road. A client killed one of my 1TB drives FW drives and it cost them $5000 to recover all of the media and it wasn't a guaranteed process. There are much cheaper solutions but none of them are 100% guaranteed to work.

I'll let others who have gone through it help you out more than I can.

Good luck bro! It sucks losing awesome footy and lots of hard work.

Believe it or not I went to film school and they didn't teach me shit about FCP or anything digital.

I was having problems editing in the past with an external scratch disc so we said fuck it and used the system disc since it's 500gb.

The disc spins with no clicking, but it cannot be mounted as a target disc on another system. Disc utlity doesn't work or anything. It's currently in the apple store getting a new drive installed. We are getting the old drive back as well so we can try to do the recovery that neither of us can afford.

I fucked up.

[advres]

WG... I was just trying to make light of a fucked situation. Don't worry, it will work out in the long run. And invest in a nice 7200 RPM+ fw800 drive and all should be good.

[carvedog]

I know you can buy a case to install the HD so (if it was/is still functioning) you can use it like an external HD. If you are still trying to get the data off have the shop sell you one or install it in there for you and you can still try the freezer thing.

Mine crapped out this spring but I was able to get about 75 of 80gbs off the drive by leaving it in the car overnight to chill out.

Good luck. I want to see the vids.

[dumpy]

The disc spins with no clicking, but it cannot be mounted as a target disc on another system. Disc utlity doesn't work or anything. It's currently in the apple store getting a new drive installed. We are getting the old drive back as well so we can try to do the recovery that neither of us can afford.

Sounds like your file system is corrupted. Not really sure what disc utility you are referring to (is it part of the OS? I'm a Mac JONG), but it may or may not be designed to fix this.

Not sure what file system you are using, but I'm sure there is a (probably free) utility made to rebuild it.

[Whiteroom_Guardian]

Ok, so new drive is installed in my MBP. I have the old drive and a case for it so we can hook it up and try to salvage files.

Only problem is that I don't have any software to pull this stuff.

[Crass3000]

There are tons of programs to recover data. Just don't use shitty freeware -- at least from my experience. Pay $30 for a well recommended program that is known to be able to find the type of files ex. .JPG, etc. It's amazing how the programs can parse the harddrive and find the charactoristic signature of the beginning and the end of a certain type of file. If you're not good with computers this is probably a place where a good friend might be able to help. Some of the programs are a little hard to understand what you need to do. There are some powerful programs out there though. Saved my ass once at work. The lesson I learned and that you will learn from this one is to ALWAYS back up your data. The more ways the better.

[Rubicon]

I second Crass's suggestion about recovery software. I have even used some freeware recovery programs with good success. Get an enclosure for the drive and try some of the programs out there before you go pay through the nose to have somebody else do it.

[nickwm21]

$100 + best buy geek squad... if your lazy

[highangle]

next time get an Apple! whoops sorry, you already did...



pop in a Puppy Linux or Knoppix LiveCD, open a terminal and type:

$ lsof | grep TYPE (whateverfileextentionyourmediahas) (targetdestination)

Linux can easily read HFS/HFS+ if it's not journaled, and it'll start transferring all files of the type specified to the destination specified

if you enabled journaling on that drive before it crashed, there are some other ways Linux can handle it, but it may take a whole two commands instead of one


on second thought, this shit's probably too complicated and tech for you guys, so ur probably better off paying some fkn nerd 3 figures to type it for you


Good Luck! and maybe next time you'll enable journaling to prevent this typical Apple filesystem fuckup

[Crass3000]

Hmmmm. Sounds kinda neat that you're techy. What do you do or are capable of doing?

[highangle]

Hmmmm. Sounds kinda neat that you're techy. What do you do or are capable of doing?

one time, on a direct free kick from about 6 yards outside the penalty area, i curved a shot around the wall that bounced off the post so hard it hit the diving goalie in the back and scored

[Crass3000]

That sounds pretty gay. I don't want to add to that thread.

[highangle]

That sounds pretty gay. I don't want to add to that thread.

^^^i hope u were drunk when you wrote this

[mrryde]

$100 + best buy geek squad... if your lazy

never do this...ever

Let me know how you made out, I have a bunch of software based recovery tools. If its toast and the freezer trick doesn't work, unfortunately its going to cost you some bucks.

Also if you need the data and have to send it out to be recovered, pay the money, because if you skimp here because some guy claims he has a dust free environment and can do it cheap, you may end up with no way of getting your data back.

[davison1]

In my opinion there is a need of hard drive recovery service to recover the data from it . Although there are an ample of names in this field but I would suggest u to first analyze the the performance history of the service provider. As far as my suggestion is concerned I would suggest to go at http://www.hard-drive-recovery-software.com/ and see the details of the services provided by Stellar.

Thanks and all the best

[maximmax]

Hi. My computer broke a couple of months ago, all I got back from the repair shop was the hard drive and theres some photos I wouldnt mind getting off of it, its 750GB as well so I wouldnt mind using it as external memory.

Any reccomendations for caddys to use so I can use with the laptop Im getting in a couple of weeks? Its a standard sized hard drive.