cheaper!!!!!!!!
I'm now going to spend my Christmas holiday going through every single
one of them and getting them online in my gallery.
I'll keep you guys posted! :D
Cheers,
Erika
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-----Original Message-----
From: Ben Braver [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, December 19, 2003 2:49 PM
To: CF-Community
Subject: Re:Failed 8 month old IBM hard drive
Hurray, Huzzah !!!
Glad to hear you have a backup of the vital piccies, most of them
anyway.
As you know, better to ball than bawl!
<aren't phonetics wonderful?>
;-) ;-)
-Benny
>Thanks for the hugs ...
>
>quick update. GOOD UPDATE
>
>We have a deleted files recovery program.
>
>When we got the 120 gig drive, we moved all the photos over from other
>drives, then deleted them.
>
>We just scanned those drives and it looks like we can re-cover almost
>3/4 of them if not all ... oh boy. I can't explain how much better this
>makes me feel ... oh boy ... I'll let you know how much we recover.
>
>Might not have to bawl now ........ we'll be missing current pictures
>after September this year ... but that's ok ... most of those I have on
>the web ...
>
>Keeping fingers crossed ....
>
>Cheers,
>Erika
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
>From: Bill Wheatley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Sent: Friday, December 19, 2003 2:29 PM
>To: CF-Community
>Subject: RE: Failed 8 month old IBM hard drive
>
>
>
>*Snuggles* I'm sorry darlin. If you want data recovery its normally not
>cheap but my friend has some of the software they use to try to recover
>data let me see if he can help out. No promises but i'll do whatever i
>can i know how much it sucks when your H'D's die its like a portion of
>your life. All my pics of me are in Digital if i lost my computer i
>would have no history of myself. I feel your pain but if 2 years
history
>is worth 1-3 grand then go for it. I would probably have paid that
price
>to get back alot of the stuff i lost a couple years ago.
>
>
>Good luck Erika, i'm sure someone on the list can hax0r you some
>software for data recovery though *snuzzles*
>
>--
>Bill Wheatley
>Senior Database Developer
>eDiets.com, Inc.
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>3801 W. Hillsboro Blvd.
>Deerfield Beach, FL 33442
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>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Erika L Walker-Arnold [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Sent: Friday, December 19, 2003 2:21 PM
>To: CF-Community
>Subject: Failed 8 month old IBM hard drive
>
>That whole hard drive thread jinxed us.
>
>Our 120 GIG IBM drive just failed. It goes "clink, clink, clink, clink"
>and won't mount.
>
>We tooko it to a data recovery place where for $85 they told us it was
>definitely a physical failure.
>
>They want another $300 to take it into a clean room and take it apart
to
>see if they can get a directory listing. IF and ONLY IF they can get a
>directory listing, then it would be another $1000-$3000 to pull the
>stuff off to CD's.
>
>The really bad part of this and why I am freaking? ALL 10,000+ of our
>digital pics from the past 2 years are on this. All the Europe pics,
our
>wedding pics, party pics, all kinds of events. Many GIGs worth of
>photos.
>
>It was our backup hard drive for our files, and our destination drive
>for our software downloads. Some of this I have backups of, but not of
>the pictures. OH boy what a lesson to learn ... It's like having all
>your pictures burn up in a fire.
>
>My question to you lot ... What are our options?
>
>Right now I know I'm on the horn to IBM IF I can get a number to
>complain very loudly.
>But what about the data? Is that the right price to recover stuff like
>this?
>Is there something we can do?
>Does anyone have a data recovery service they recommend???
>
>ANY and ALL HELP is appreciated ..
>
>And no, I don't need to be told to back up more often. Lectures are not
>needed. Thank you.
>Already upset enough over the possible loss of our 2-year history of
>photos. Especially our fantastic Eiffel Tower shots. <sigh>
>
>Cheers,
>Erika
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