catastrophic failure

[Michael Zacherl]

wow, Tony that's indeed good to hear - and a good testimonial now.
On the other hand I dearly wish it wouldn't have happened to you!

   ;-) Michael.


On 09.11.2007 3:43 Uhr, Tony Scharf wrote:
> 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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