catastrophic failure

[Tony Scharf]

James:

I could freeking kiss you right now!!!

I downloaded this software, paid the $50 bucks, and it is, as we
speak, bringing back my files.

If ever I get the chance, I am buying a case of your choice of beer.

Tony


On Nov 8, 2007 8:08 AM, James R. Coplin <james at ticalun.net> wrote:
> I had a similar type occurrence several years back.  I found a software
> package from an Australian company called the R_Studio that recovered
> everything even though I had done a complete fdisk and format.
>
> http://www.data-recovery-software.net/
>
> I would recommend not doing *anything* else to the drive and downloading
> their demo.  It won't do the recovery but it will show you what it can
> recover.  I spent the money and let it crunch for a day but it got
> *everything* back.  Best money I think I ever spent on tech.
>
> James R. Coplin
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: shelter-bounces at lists.music-bar.org [mailto:shelter-
> > bounces at lists.music-bar.org] On Behalf Of Tony Scharf
> > Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2007 7:56 AM
> > To: shelter at lists.music-bar.org
> > Subject: catastrophic failure
> >
> > About a week ago, I dropped the USB hard drive that I use to backup my
> > main audio system down a flight of stairs.  It was toasted.
> >
> > I dont like *not* having a recent backup so yesterday I bought a new
> > one.  I booted into knoppix to format it ext3 and make a disk image of
> > the main system drive and to do an rsync of the data drive.
> >
> > just a tip: when using fdisk, the difference between sda1 and sdb1 is
> > pretty significant.  I have no idea why, but with my old drive, it
> > always showed up as sda1, but for some reason that was different this
> > time.  I partitiond and then proceeded to format my entire data drive.
> >   And I have no backup I can locate (I may have some DVD backups in a
> > box somewhere that are at least 2 years old).
> >
> > So...its gone.  everything.  everything Id been working on. the
> > remixes I was working on..some vocal tracks...recorded noodles of the
> > cwejman I had gathered and about 20 gb of samples I was working on to
> > add to the ampfea sample library.
> >
> > I dont even really know how to react at this point.  I feel like i
> > have been hit by a train.
> >
> > Tony
>
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