That's really good to know. I just shuddered when I heard how expensive data recovery costs. Then a friend told me his girlfriend had spent quite a sum because that was the only way to recover irreplaceable photos, etc.
I guess that also underscores the importance of having all your data backed up somewhere. Thanks for the tip. Hope I never have to use it. Randolfe Wicker Hoboken, NJ --- In [email protected], "Jarod Dixon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On a side note - Discovered a nice trick for data recovery on a drive > that Mac and PC won't read or recognize... Linux. > > Plugged a drive that must have had something important corrupted up to > a Suse 10.3 box via USB 2 external enclosure and it mounted fine. I > was able to recover data very easy. Probably won't work every time, > but worked in my case a month ago. > > Knowledge is good. > > Jarod. > > > > --- In [email protected], "Brook Hinton" <bhinton@> wrote: > > > > Make sure the drives are formatted Mac HFS+. Video will not work > reliably if > > they are formatted for both mac and windows, even if they mount. > > Make sure you have the computer set to never put hard drives to sleep in > > your preferences. (And avoid MyBooks, which ignore this setting). > > Make sure you never fill the drive up beyond 80%. > > Make sure every firewire cable is good. They can go bad. > > Make sure no cable is more than 14.5', Ideally much much shorter, > especially > > if you are using multiple devices. > > Make sure every firewire device in the chain is on. > > Make sure every port is good - on the drives AND on the computer. > > Make sure your video is in a format your software likes. > > It's a lot of work, but that's the usual firewire troubleshooting > list. It's > > rarely the drive unless you've been unplugging it or turning it off > without > > dismounting it. > > > > _______________________________________________________ > > Brook Hinton > > film/video/audio art > > www.brookhinton.com > > studio vlog/blog: www.brookhinton.com/temporalab > > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > >
