buswizard Posted October 20, 2010 Share #1 Posted October 20, 2010 Well well well...since my portable hard drive decided to turn my summer's worth of photos into "webdings" file extensions with nothing but symbols last week...I had no choice but to format the drive. I plan to sell it off. THEN I FOUND OUT the next day I got on the internet, that my photo gallery has been mysteriously wiped from existence too!!! Now I have no backup, and the thousands of hotlinks I have on this forum and many others have been broken. Look at all my fantrip threads in this forum from this year before October...they ALL are little red Xs now! I am now using MediaFire for my photo storage. I have a few photos backed up from summertime, but...my SEPTA Bus Roadeo pics are gone, as well as nearly 80% of my Amtrak photos!! So...before I go into a round of serious depression (since bad things have been happening to me in a procession this past month socially, financially, technologically, etc), I am going to start over. Just thought I'd let you guys know in case you were wondering where everything went. Oh and by the way I am going to Toronto this weekend, so hopefully I can TRY and get some transit shots. (probably from a car window at best but still...) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Messino Posted October 20, 2010 Share #2 Posted October 20, 2010 you can unformat the drive and possibly fix the files if you dont write any new data to the drive.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
metsfan Posted October 20, 2010 Share #3 Posted October 20, 2010 That really sucks. - A Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NovaBUSRTS9145 Posted October 20, 2010 Share #4 Posted October 20, 2010 Damn man!!! I am really sorry that happened to you! It happened to me a while back when i upgraded my OS from Vista to 7 Home. Lost ALL of my videos, recordings, and 75% of my pictures!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buswizard Posted October 20, 2010 Author Share #5 Posted October 20, 2010 well at least I shall start over. I will be posting pics I took today in a new thread in a moment, as stored in my NEW online account. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
N-Trizzy2609 Posted October 21, 2010 Share #6 Posted October 21, 2010 If you need any NJ Transit photos to help fill back your new gallery, I can help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grand Concourse Posted October 21, 2010 Share #7 Posted October 21, 2010 Losing stuff like that is horrible. My sympathies. I have at least 3 different copies of my regular unaltered images. I also have at least 1 set of my altered pics and then the stuff I uploaded. So I've got like 5 different places for my pics. You can never have too many safety 'vaults'. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CenSin Posted October 21, 2010 Share #8 Posted October 21, 2010 It turns out that when a drive loses data that most of the data is recoverable. You just didn't try hard enough. In fact, the data might still be recoverable right now. (Look for a piece of software called Recuva by Piriform.) For the future, keep multiple copies of your data. Windows Live SkyDrive is a good place to keep your photos. If you use Internet Explorer combined with Silverlight, you can just drag and drop all your files (any kind) to SkyDrive and store them online. You get 25 GB of total space with a limit of 50 MB per file. I also keep copies in my external hard drive. The drive itself is physically 2 mirrored hard drives with each drive containing identical contents so that if one drive ever fails, I always have the other. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grand Concourse Posted October 21, 2010 Share #9 Posted October 21, 2010 Yup^ excellent advice. That's pretty much what I have with my external drives: both mirrors pretty much everything I have on my desktop. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joel Up Front Posted October 21, 2010 Share #10 Posted October 21, 2010 What kind of external hard drive did you have? I'm getting one soon... or planning. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CenSin Posted October 21, 2010 Share #11 Posted October 21, 2010 What kind of external hard drive did you have? I'm getting one soon... or planning. I hope you have a lot of cash to spend (was $505.97 last year but now ~$440). I bought 2 × 1 TB drives (enterprise class with a lower failure rate) and put them in a hard drive enclosure with data mirroring: Western Digital RE3 WD1002FBYS 1TB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive -Bare Drive × 2 ICY DOCK MB662UEAB-2S Aluminum 2 Bay SATA to Firewire 400/800 (1394a/;) / USB 2.0 RAID 0, 1 & JBOD Enclosure for Mac & PC × 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joel Up Front Posted October 21, 2010 Share #12 Posted October 21, 2010 I found a 1TB Western Digital external HDD for $90 on Amazon at the start of the month. I don't think I should skimp on the funding, though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RTS CNG Command Posted October 22, 2010 Share #13 Posted October 22, 2010 Of all the back-up hard drives to buy, a Western Digital is the LAST one to get. I had a WD MyBook, and four months later, it completely died on me. Lost all my files (on the back-up; they were still stored in my computer). And after looking up customer reviews, it turns out WD is well-known for their external drives crashing just months after purchase. Even a member of the Apple store in Midtown said he would NEVER recommend Western Digital. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joel Up Front Posted October 22, 2010 Share #14 Posted October 22, 2010 And I heard Seagates had terrible firmware issues... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amtrak7 Posted October 22, 2010 Share #15 Posted October 22, 2010 Speaking of losses, I lost the Outlook data files containing thousands MTA alert emails as well as RSS feed data of MTA press releases and Second Ave Sagas posts from Jan 1 to May 26, 2010. Apparently, chkdsk overwrited the file. Too bad this includes the 2 big snowstorms and a bunch of service cut hearing stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grand Concourse Posted October 22, 2010 Share #16 Posted October 22, 2010 Of all the back-up hard drives to buy, a Western Digital is the LAST one to get. I had a WD MyBook, and four months later, it completely died on me. Lost all my files (on the back-up; they were still stored in my computer). And after looking up customer reviews, it turns out WD is well-known for their external drives crashing just months after purchase. Even a member of the Apple store in Midtown said he would NEVER recommend Western Digital. whoa... that's scary, I have an older 80gb WD external drive for my laptop. Thankfully no problems in the past 5 years. Are you talking about the recent ones or just in general? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CenSin Posted October 22, 2010 Share #17 Posted October 22, 2010 Of all the back-up hard drives to buy, a Western Digital is the LAST one to get. I had a WD MyBook, and four months later, it completely died on me. Lost all my files (on the back-up; they were still stored in my computer). And after looking up customer reviews, it turns out WD is well-known for their external drives crashing just months after purchase. Even a member of the Apple store in Midtown said he would NEVER recommend Western Digital. I buy enterprise class drives, not general consumer class. And I get two of them working together (theoretically reducing my probability of failure to the square root of either drive alone). My drives and enclosure has been working for 1 year already and I keep the thing on 24/7. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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