Bad, bad day

[Kevin Taylor]

Think you've had a bad day?
I just spent 2 weeks putting a 128 track song together. This morning both my hard drives crashed.
48 part harmony..8 synths... 3 guitars... 3 drum machines...
All gone.

Always always always, save backups to CD!!!

Now I'm gonna go puke and start again.

[Dr_simon]

Ok dude, all may not be lost.
1) have you plugged the drives into another machine.
2) is the rest of the computer dead ?
3) If you know it is the HDDs than how come both have died at once this sounds very unlikely (unless the computer was hit by lightening or something).
4) Did you know there are places that do data recovery from dead drives !

If you want to send me the drives I will see what I can do !
Send me an email if you want any help.

[iamthe_eggman]

Yeah, unless there was some actual magnetic interference with the hard drives, or the FAT was destroyed, the data is still all there. A competent data recovery place should be able to get you back at least some of the data.

[mc9mm]

Not for free though. That's very expensive. I think.

[Dr_simon]

1500 bucks / disk last I looked. But then again how many hours @ what ever schmange charges an hour is on that disk.

1500 is probably quite cheap in comparison !

[ketsueki15]

if your hard drive is corrupted then you have no luck gettin it back..once its gone its gone forever BUT I dont think thats what happened...If you could provide more information then we might be able to help
could have been a power surge that might have overloaded your comp :D and then all hell broke loose inside and BAM..its dead...take it to a store or ask a smart comp friend to help..
my day is sorta bad..I spend from 1.:42 to 4:30 driving out to elementary schools installin PDA software ect just for the comp to screw upl..lol good thing its not my comp.

[Kevin Taylor]

Thanks guys. It's my own fault & too late now.
The original drive started acting weird yesterday... I'd open the song & it couldn't find certain files. Finally it wouldn't mix down at all. Then it crashed. So I transferred everthing to my second drive. Made room on my first drive, re-installed the system and transferred it back. Everything was working fine, so I erased the one off my second drive.
When I went back to the first drive again, I realized all the files that the song were pointing at were located on the second drive. So the song's intact, but there's no .aiff files left.

I already went throught the whole Norton recovery thing... all day... blah.
There's portions of the song files left but about 90% of em are gone cause both drives were filled to capacity & I'd already started erasing other stuff.
Even if I did find them all, I'd have to spend 2 weeks figuring out which ones were which and reconstruct the song from scratch anyways so to hell with it.

...and my last thought before hitting the 'empty trash' button was "I've got this backed up on disc... don't I?... yeah of course I do!"

[Dr_simon]

Sucks to be you man !

I know it seems like common sense but remember to throw away that bad drive... don't use it again !

[Kevin Taylor]

I ran my car over it.
Several times.

[Meta]

Lol What ever doesnt kill you makes you stronger =p

Think of it this way the last one was just practice for this one ;)

[bob-bobby]

Think you've had a bad day?
I just spent 2 weeks putting a 128 track song together. This morning both my hard drives crashed.
48 part harmony..8 synths... 3 guitars... 3 drum machines...
All gone.

Always always always, save backups to CD!!!

Now I'm gonna go puke and start again.

what if the cd screws up after backing up :p