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OH GOD! My music!

MachismoMachismo Registered User regular
edited February 2007 in Social Entropy++
Oh god! All my music. Gone.

I had to reformat and I accidently reformatted one of my backup drives. Poof. All of it gone!!!

Gigs and gigs! From hundreds of CDs I've owned, most of them stolen a while back.

What a shitty experience.

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    scarlet st.scarlet st. Registered User regular
    edited February 2007
    God that fucking blows. I know the pain all too well from a few years back when I reformatted after burning all my music to CDs, then put them in after the OS installed only to find that they were all corrupt.

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    TallahasseerielTallahasseeriel Registered User regular
    edited February 2007
    Man that sucks, best start redownlo- errr purchasing them.

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    MachismoMachismo Registered User regular
    edited February 2007
    Yea, Uriel. I am totally 'buying' them now. I have a couple of DVDs of the really hard to find stuff, but I am not sure where they are at.

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    LemmingLemming Registered User regular
    edited February 2007
    Can't you retrieve that stuff somehow?

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    LinksvilleLinksville Registered User regular
    edited February 2007
    Shit, that sucks. I've had the reformat itch for some time now. I think when I finally break, I'm going to back everything up thrice and do the deed.

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    PalinePaline Registered User new member
    edited February 2007
    You should be able to recover the files with the right recovery software.

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    StaleghotiStaleghoti Registered User regular
    edited February 2007
    I have 12,736 songs

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    scarlet st.scarlet st. Registered User regular
    edited February 2007
    Paline wrote: »
    You should be able to recover the files with the right recovery software.

    Even after a reformat?

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    MachismoMachismo Registered User regular
    edited February 2007
    Paline wrote: »
    You should be able to recover the files with the right recovery software.

    I don't think that will work too well. I am afraid that the hard drive now being used as system and boot was formerly my media hard drive.... It is quite likely that the sectors have been written too. Besides, in my experience, undelete operations are not perfect. Audio tends to like perfect reproduction.

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    JinnJinn Registered User regular
    edited February 2007
    So who's going to Bonnaroo?

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    PalinePaline Registered User new member
    edited February 2007
    Yeah, I remember at work an absent minded co-worker started a quick format of a hard drive with a very important database file on it. I can't remember what he used to recover it, but it worked.

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    wookieeArmourwookieeArmour Registered User regular
    edited February 2007
    unless you use a program made to keep it from being recovered you should be able to recover it.

    i'd look into it myself.

    you might have just messed up the boundaries between partitions too, in which cased it should be fairly easy to recover.

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    QuadropheniaQuadrophenia Registered User regular
    edited February 2007
    Jinn wrote: »
    So who's going to Bonnaroo?

    Not me. That shit's expensive.

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    b0bd0db0bd0d Registered User regular
    edited February 2007
    Yeah, unless you over wrote the data with random uh...data, it should still be there. I think the HD drive just marks it for overwritting but doesn't actually "erase" it. I'd look into it.

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    Zombies Tossed My Salad!Zombies Tossed My Salad! Registered User regular
    edited February 2007
    This is why I don't reformat.

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    jpegjpeg ODIE, YOUR FACE Scenic Illinois FlatlandsRegistered User regular
    edited February 2007
    After this happened to me twice (instead of it just being music, it was also roughly 4 years of art and graphic design/web design work down the drain also) I just partition my drive with all my files and installers on one large partition, and all my windows files and programs on C:. That way I can format and reinstall windows without even touching my shit.

    In other words, ugh that sucks I know what that's like D:

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    StaleStale Registered User regular
    edited February 2007
    provided you didn't do a DoD-wipe or something similar, the data is still there, just not tabled.

    "shop" online for some good recovery software, the worst that can happen is that you get nothing, but even with audio it is very very possible to keep the data just fine.

    When I reformat a drive I do it all the way, therefore making it impossible to retrieve anything without days and days and hundreds of thousands of dollars of expense.

    suck it gub'mint assholes, MY DATA is MY DATA.

    gdisk disk /DISKWIPE /DOD

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    SephSeph Registered User regular
    edited February 2007
    Yeah you can get it back, you need another computer and ghosting software to do it.

    As in you need one computer to ghost the crap to from your HD. Maybe someone can help you out.

    I think ghosting software costs 100-200 bucks

    but cheaper than buying hundreds of discs

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    SASA Registered User regular
    edited February 2007
    I did that the other day. I just got it all off my iPod, so it was okay.

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    potatoepotatoe Registered User regular
    edited February 2007
    i had this happen a few months back

    i had 2 harddrives fail within a week of each other, 120GB of music gone

    i had about 50 of it backed up, but it was a backup 3 years out of date so it was all shit i never listened to



    need a hug?

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    SephSeph Registered User regular
    edited February 2007
    You can usually take your broke ass HD to a computer repair store. The dudes there SHOULD have ghosting software if they are worth a damn. Course they get to see all your tranny porn.

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    edited February 2007
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    Zombies Tossed My Salad!Zombies Tossed My Salad! Registered User regular
    edited February 2007
    I have 24.6 gigs of music. I would cry if I lost it.

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    mackingtheknifemackingtheknife __BANNED USERS regular
    edited February 2007
    Quadrophenia wrote: »
    Jinn wrote: »
    So who's going to Bonnaroo?

    Not me. That shit's expensive.

    not if you sell drugs

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    SnackAttackSnackAttack Registered User regular
    edited February 2007
    ZeroZero wrote: »
    I have 24.6 gigs of music. I would cry if I lost it.

    Last I checked I had 40something gigs of music on my external hard drive, and a good portion of it is CDs I bought, ripped, and promptly lost. if I lost all of that I would probably just leap off a building.


    Or get busy "purchasing" large quantities of music. Y'know, with all that money I've got.

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    MachismoMachismo Registered User regular
    edited February 2007
    I have hexedit at work. I install it on this machine tomorrow and see if I can see the data. I know NTFS pretty well, so I should be able to find most of that stuff on my own. I think I have a license of the forensics module (I hope).
    I am REALLY worried that the sectors have been written to already though... If that has happend, I doubt I will try to salvage the data, as what would come out would be pretty badly corrupted.

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    HydroSqueegeeHydroSqueegee ULTRACAT!!!™®© Registered User regular
    edited February 2007
    Stale wrote: »
    provided you didn't do a DoD-wipe or something similar, the data is still there, just not tabled.

    "shop" online for some good recovery software, the worst that can happen is that you get nothing, but even with audio it is very very possible to keep the data just fine.

    When I reformat a drive I do it all the way, therefore making it impossible to retrieve anything without days and days and hundreds of thousands of dollars of expense.

    suck it gub'mint assholes, MY DATA is MY DATA.

    gdisk disk /DISKWIPE /DOD

    uhhh... you know us gob'mint people can still recover a good portion of that, right?

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    scarlet st.scarlet st. Registered User regular
    edited February 2007
    ZeroZero wrote: »
    I have 24.6 gigs of music. I would cry if I lost it.

    lightweight

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    HydroSqueegeeHydroSqueegee ULTRACAT!!!™®© Registered User regular
    edited February 2007
    scarlet st. wrote: »
    ZeroZero wrote: »
    I have 24.6 gigs of music. I would cry if I lost it.

    lightweight

    uh oh... is that there some fightin words for an e-penis music collection size throwdown?

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    WeaverWeaver Who are you? What do you want?Registered User regular
    edited February 2007
    how do you accidentally reformat a drive

    what with

    all of the confirmation windows

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    potatoepotatoe Registered User regular
    edited February 2007
    Weaver wrote: »
    how do you accidentally reformat a drive

    what with

    all of the confirmation windows

    well, if he's anything like me it involved alcohol

    a few months back i accidentally deactivated the swap space on my compy one night and it took me a week to figure out why i kept running out of memory while using firefox for more than an hour or two

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    WeaverWeaver Who are you? What do you want?Registered User regular
    edited February 2007
    one morning I woke up from a whiskey binge and had some code compiler running

    I don't even know code or remember doing anything with code the night before

    I broke IE and media player so hard

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    CalliusCallius Registered User regular
    edited February 2007
    I need to buy a new external HDD since my current one is slowly dying.

    Oh well, that's in another year!

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    WeaverWeaver Who are you? What do you want?Registered User regular
    edited February 2007
    I need for my nose to stop running

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    potatoepotatoe Registered User regular
    edited February 2007
    i need to go poop

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    CalliusCallius Registered User regular
    edited February 2007
    I need to start my new schedule.

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    potatoepotatoe Registered User regular
    edited February 2007
    i need to figure out why i thought it was a good idea to do the MC Hammer slide in and out of the bathroom

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    Moe FwackyMoe Fwacky Right Here, Right Now Drives a BuickModerator mod
    edited February 2007
    I have all of my music backed up in three places. One here on the desktop (on a separate physical drive than I have Linux installed on). The second is on my laptop. The third is at my job on campus. When I started there, we had a network folder for our music, but since I started dropping ungodly amounts of music on it, they switched us to a 100GB external hard drive. This way, no matter what, I've got a road to recovery. Unless all three devices just take a major shit at the exact same time.

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