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+Steve Martin
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Steve Martin
3 years ago
Well the reason I've been away for a few days is that I had a bit of a harddrive crash on Sat night. I've got a new one and everything's going well, but I lost a fair bit of stuff. Fortunately all my photos were also stored on my wife's computer and all the stuff I've been doing in my unpaid animation job was on a flash drive drive. However, I've probably lost most of my old scene files and renders, other than what I've posted here or elsewhere online. (Thank god for DAF!) I've lost all of my progress on Fallout 3 (bugger) and don't even get me startd on all the gay midget porn movies that I lost. I think I'm most disapointed about losing the Legnum animation scene file that I di with madcar. It was always in the back of my mind to try and finish it off at some stage. I guess I probably won't now. This has never happened to me before so I'm not sure, but is there any chance of me being able to recover anything with spending thousands of dollars? I didn't lose anything overly critical but it would be nice to get some of it back.
[Link to www.3dprevis.com]

-The Real Matt
Senior Member
The Real Matt
3 years ago
that sucks! lesson learnt to back up and back up again maybe.

um you can supposedly send your hard drive off to the company that made it and they'll retrieve the data for you or something like that. but you have to pay $$$$$$. otherwise......too bad

and it's a story that might bore you, but you don't have to listen, because I always knew it was going to be like that.

-Tyson
Senior Member
Tyson
3 years ago
There is software that can retrieve corrupted data. I leant one of my usb drives to a friend half full of data and he did something that corrupted it, he used some sort of data retieval software and got back nearly everything but it was all named bizarre things like XCGJYTEDTUIK00001.max
etc.. can't remember the name of the software but you could look into data retrieval programs and methods.

did a quick search... [Link to www.nucleusdatarecovery.org]

-cdballew
Moderator
cdballew
3 years ago
A while back I posted about my misfortune with the same problem. I tried to convey my despair so that others might not fall to the same mistake. Guess it didn't work. cry.gif grin.gif
Sorry to make light of your situation. I know how bad it sucks, and I know how long it can take to amass a large collection of gay midget porn.

Seriously though, I know it sucks.
1.Does your system recognize the drive at all? What errors do you get?
2.Can you here the drive spin?
3.Have you tried slaving the drive?
4. Is it SATA or IDE?
Chris

+Steve Martin
Moderator
Steve Martin
3 years ago
I haven't tried anything as yet, it's not plugged in at the moment. It was saying "disk read error press ctrl alt delete to restart" or something when I was booting up. I fiddled around with cables and some other stuff for a bit before deciding to go out and get a cheap drive and throw it in. This fixed the problem but I haven't had a chance to plug the old drive in as yet to see what happens. Hopefully some time on the weekend I'll get a chance.
[Link to www.3dprevis.com]

+Jamie
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Jamie
3 years ago
That happened to me man... it was a sad day. What error does it give?
Please support us and post a [Link to www.digitalartsfront.com] on your website.

+VarnishedOtter
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VarnishedOtter
3 years ago
yeah I need to invest in a backup.
Please support us and post a [Link to www.digitalartsfront.com] on your website.

--Matt

-cdballew
Moderator
cdballew
3 years ago
I got a wireless network card a couple of months ago and got my network going again. I can just shoot stuff over to my wife's computer. I also have two local drives I can backup to.
The problem with me is I have no excuse, if my hard drive crashed right now I'd be mad as hell, cause I haven't backed anything up in a while.

EDIT: I just backed up my scenes. Whaaaaat a relief!!!!!

Chris

+isaac
Moderator
isaac
3 years ago
hard drive recovery pt1
[Link to www.youtube.com]

hard drive recovery pt2
[Link to www.youtube.com]

I only glanced at parts but I think this is what you need.

+Steve Martin
Moderator
Steve Martin
3 years ago
Cheers all, I'll let you know how it goes.
[Link to www.3dprevis.com]

+Steve Martin
Moderator
Steve Martin
3 years ago
Just thought I'd let you know, looks like I'll be able to get back everything I want, using a program called GetDataBack ([Link to www.runtime.org] I've scanned and recovered some of it and it's working fine, I've loaded up some old max scene files and it's all there but it's gonna take some time to get everything I want off it. Hopefully I'll be able to format it and reuse it when I've got everything.
[Link to www.3dprevis.com]

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