For everyone else here though remember there are two kinds of
computer users: Those who have suffered a hard drive crash...and
those who WILL sufer a hard drive crash.
Graham Walker
http://travelvlog.blogspot.com
http://wearethemedia.com
> --
> It is very dark. You are likely to be eaten by a grue.
>
>
> On Aug 11, 2005, at 11:24 AM, Frank Carver wrote:
>
> >
> > Yesterday afternoon, the 250GB Maxtor external hard drive that I
have
> > been using for all my video work stopped responding to requests
from
> > the PC. The best I can prompt it to give me is "this drive is not
> > formatted - format it now?"
> >
> > This was pretty unexpected - the drive is relatively new and had
been
> > working well for months. Unfortunately, I had become lazy about
> > backups. My original plan was to use this drive solely as
temporary
> > working storage for material loaded from tape while editing - if
> > anything went wrong I'd still have the master tapes.
> >
> > The I got a little flash camera, which made it so tempting to just
> > upload to the hard drive and move on to grabbing more footage.
> > Somehow, this hard drive _became_ the master version.
> >
> > So now, I've lost several months of irreplaceable raw footage, all
> > because I neglected to back up my stuff to multiple, more
permanent,
> > places.
> >
> > If you use a non-tape camera, don't get caught like me. Back up
> > everything NOW, and back up all your raw footage to multiple,
> > permanent, locations WHILE ITS STILL IN THE CAMERA. Remember. Hard
> > drives fail when you least want them to.
> >
> > As an aside, I was also using this drive for downloaded
videoblogs and
> > podcasts, so I will probably be re-fetching a whole bunch of
> > everyone's stuff in the near future. Apologies in advance for
eating
> > your bandwidth twice.
> >
> > PS. Anyone know any cheap and effective data recovery services?
> >
> > Sigh.
> >
> > --
> > Frank Carver http://www.makevideo.org.uk
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