[Shotimes] OT: file recovery utilities

[Ian Fisher]

Ron nailed it. It started off as a backup drive but
grew so much that I turned it into an archive drive. I
was playing the odds; I figure that I upgrade every
few years and hopefully the drive would still be
around for   me to transfer the data off of it to a
newer drive. Unfortunately this one died prematurely.
It's older sister (20g) is still running fine. Both
are 7200 rpm Seagate Barracuda's. I've always had good
luck with them both personally and professionally so I
didn't expect this to happen so soon. Of course with
any mechanical part...

I'm thinking of getting an external USB HD as well as
a new internal IDE. The USB would be a backup and I
could use it between my desktop and my ancient
(hopefully I'll replace it soon) laptop.

Ian

--- cmichaelo@optonline.net wrote:

> I personally would never use a single HD as backup. 
> 
> However, using two HDs as backups, each of which is
> an image of the other, should be quite safe, since
> the likelyhood of both failing within a day or so of
> eachother is sooo small.
> 
> This is sort of a poor mans ways of providing
> distributed backup.  
> 
> I think commercial backup facilities do sort of the
> same thing.  They use something called RAID (which
> is HD based) to provide redundancy and reduce cost.
> 
> Also, I don't know where else one should store all
> this info if not on HDs.  
> 
> I may be wrong, but I don't think they use removable
> media anymore, or do they?
> 
> Michael
> 94MTX,green,BOS+,Koni/Intrax,Baer,Corbeau
> SHO items for sale:
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> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Ron Porter <ronporter@prodigy.net>
> Date: Saturday, July 9, 2005 11:00 am
> Subject: RE: [Shotimes] OT: file recovery utilities
> 
> > Next time, back up that drive!!
> > 
> > IIRC, in your original post, you said that was
> your backup HD. 
> > Well, if it
> > was truly your backup HD, it should have also had
> the data stored 
> > elsewhere.
> > It sounds like it was really your "archive" HD. If
> that's the 
> > case, it
> > should still be backed up somewhere. Any device
> that is a "backup" 
> > meansthat it is a copy of something
> else.....meaning that you must 
> > have two
> > copies.
> > 
> > FWIW, I personally would never use a HD as an
> archive. It's not 
> > "if" they
> > die, it's "when" they die!!
> > 
> > Ron Porter
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: shotimes-admin@autox.team.net
> [shotimes-admin@autox.team.net]
> > On Behalf Of Ian Fisher
> > Sent: Saturday, July 09, 2005 9:16 AM
> > To: cmichaelo@optonline.net
> > Cc: shotimes@autox.team.net
> > Subject: Re: [Shotimes] OT: file recovery
> utilities
> > 
> > ahhh..IIRC, Seagate's ActiveX utility scanned the
> > drive online and said that it had possible bad
> > sectors.
> > 
> > Thanks for the link-Ironically I had just read it
> last
> > night but didn't investigate the testdisk utility.
> I
> > saw that the article was a few years old so I was
> > wondering if anyone had experience with anything
> newer
> > or better. 
> > 
> > It looks like I need a new HD to transfer data to
> if
> > this works. :)
> > 
> > Thanks!
> > Ian
> > 
> > 
> > --- cmichaelo@optonline.net wrote:
> > 
> > > Ian,
> > > 
> > > Sounds like you have both lost your partition
> > > information, or that the partition info has been
> > > damaged, which might explain why your drive is
> full
> > > all of a sudden.
> > > 
> > > You said up front that you have bad sectors. How
> do
> > > you know this?
> > > 
> > > There are ways to examine and possibly recover a
> > > harddrive that doesn't boot and which has messed
> up
> > > partition info.
> > > 
> > > Check out testdisk:
> > >
> http://www.cgsecurity.org/index.html?testdisk.html
> > > 
> > > testdisk and other freeware recovery utilities
> are
> > > discussed here:
> > >
> >
>
http://www.pcstats.com/articleview.cfm?articleID=1139
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Michael
> > > 94MTX,green,BOS+,Koni/Intrax,Baer,Corbeau
> > > SHO items for sale:
> > > http://hometown.aol.com/cmichaelo/for_sale.html
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