catastrophic failure

[James R. Coplin]

Well, Minneapolis isn't that far away.  Come by the studio sometime if you
want to drive a large modular...

James

> -----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 8:43 PM
> To: shelter at lists.music-bar.org
> Subject: Re: catastrophic failure
> 
> 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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