desaster,hard drive crash.2 years data lost.

[PALL]

last week my hard drive's one partition"NTFS" just gone,stoped working seems like physical prob,almost all of my nature shots from two years gone included all NEF and edited NEfs and PSD files,, .i feel like just quit photographing noww,i am realy upsetd

any hard drive recovery software you guys used ever,?

[hangdog]

Ask around to find some hard disk recovery experts in your city (or ship it elsewhere). I nuked my Mac's HD years ago but was able to get it recovered, albeit for a few hundred bucks.

Don't use Symantec/Norton's. In fact, don't use any software which might hose your HD even further.

--Chuan

[bago100]

Ouch! Sorry to hear about your misfortune.
I agree with Chuan, whatever you do, don't use any software
Gently, take your hard disk to a professional recovery service. It will cost but as you are in Pakistan, probably not as much as it would here. If you do manage to recover your photos, or even if you don't, it might pay to burn your treasures to a backup dvd or to install a second hard drive that mirrors the master hard drive.
All the best
Graham

[avkomp]

ouch, sorry to hear about that, but much of the data will still be on the platters, may be expensive to recover but still possible.

external usb devices are cheap backup these days can prevent this from being soul destroying

steve

[BBJ]

Not good, but with the price of cdr's and dvd'r media nowdays there should be no reason to loose so much. I have everything backed up all 300+gig, i go shoot i come home process RAW files then burn the RAW files pluss jpgs to dvdr. Good practice to back it all up.

[Ivanerrol]

Ouch!!!! What else is lost besides images?

Sorry for your loss.

See my Avatar. Analogue backup.

Backup.Backup.Backup

Backup and leave a copy off site.

[whiz]

get yourself a knoppix disk, boot it and see if your files are readable if you don't want to try software.
I have had very good results from File Recovery Pro V6

Remember, files you've not backed up are files you really don't want.

Sorry to remind you of this.
I often tell people that their hard drive will fail.

DO NOT RELY ON DVD BACKUPS.
There are NO ARCHIVAL QUALITY DVD'S available to the public.
Check them every year.

[admajic]

If it is actually a physical fault, as mention. I would definatley send it to a lab for a recovery.

[MATT]

A lesson here for us all.


Goodluck

MATT

[cordy]

get yourself a knoppix disk, boot it and see if your files are readable if you don't want to try software.
I have had very good results from File Recovery Pro V6

Remember, files you've not backed up are files you really don't want.

Sorry to remind you of this.
I often tell people that their hard drive will fail.

DO NOT RELY ON DVD BACKUPS.
There are NO ARCHIVAL QUALITY DVD'S available to the public.
Check them every year.

Well, really, there are not any archival quality dvd's for anyone to be honest. All media is supseptable to failure at some time, so you are probably better off having two backup mediums, which are verified however often you like!

[kazuhiro]

sorry to hear about the hdd crash.

Check out http://www.payam.com.au/

They quote $350 at a quick glance.

(Not affiliated with them)