RANT: BEGGINING TO HATE TECHNOLOGY

[kyparrish]

Originally posted by: virtualgames0
My 320GB RAID went corrupt, and windows wouldn't detect the drives. When I tried to format them, the drives would freeze the format utility(bootup ones).
I ran data recovery software on a good hard drive, and it was able to detect the damaged drives. I ended up recovering 95% of my data.

It took me over 30hrs of headaches and over a week total of everything I try going wrong until I've found the solution. If your drive is formatted, the data should still be on there. Run data recovery software such as R-Studio, and you should be able to recover your MP3s.

good advice...

this is why I run 2 hard drive's...nothing really fancy like RAID 1, but whenever I rip CD's, or download music, I back all ~20 gigs up to the other hard drive.

 

[sxr7171]

Originally posted by: kyparrish

Originally posted by: virtualgames0
My 320GB RAID went corrupt, and windows wouldn't detect the drives. When I tried to format them, the drives would freeze the format utility(bootup ones).
I ran data recovery software on a good hard drive, and it was able to detect the damaged drives. I ended up recovering 95% of my data.

It took me over 30hrs of headaches and over a week total of everything I try going wrong until I've found the solution. If your drive is formatted, the data should still be on there. Run data recovery software such as R-Studio, and you should be able to recover your MP3s.

good advice...

this is why I run 2 hard drive's...nothing really fancy like RAID 1, but whenever I rip CD's, or download music, I back all ~20 gigs up to the other hard drive.

That's what I do.

 

[Anubis]

raid 5

 

[So]

I have so many redundant backups of my MP3 collection that it's sick:

1. My HD
2. a duplicate partition that I back up to on another HD in my PC
3. My Laptop
4. Secondary PC in my room
5. 13.5 gig drive just sitting in the closet.

The only problem is that none of it is off site (at the moment, when I'm in college, there is a 8 hr drive between the main and the backups)

Oooh, that reminds me, I've gotta update the backups before I go back.

 

[rh71]

it's gonna suck throwing 20GB of songs back into your IPOD from those CDs you own.

 

[DaWhim]

you suck

 

[torpid]

The mistake was not in buying an ipod, but in NOT buying the music. It is not uncommon to have to reformat and possibly re-encode songs when dealing with hard drive mp3 players.