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[DaCocoBrova]

I bought a 200GB Seagate hard drive last week. Put everything I chereished on there so that I could format all my other drives. After doing so, things were fine. The drive never got hot and performed as it should.

Fucking around with WinHIIP and the PS2, I selected the 200GB drive to store a PS2 game I had on another drive. Long story short, it hosed the drive and everything on it (I think, but hope not). Now windows doesn't recognize the drive (it wants to intialize it) and I lost all my music, videos and a ton of hdd-only applications. I'm so mad that I'm not even reacting (and if you know me, that's quite a feat)...

It's almost 24 hours later, and my mood has been on if indifference ever since. *sigh*

Is there any hope of retrieving that data?


Anyone else care to share any similar stories of data loss?

 

[Diablos]

It probably marked the data as unimportant and thus is still on the hard drive, just not accessible because it will start overwriting that stuff as soon as the hard drive reaches that point when you put more data on it. Look into some shareware data recovery programs, you might be able to get a lot back.

 

[Triumph]

I had a little over 300 pages of a novel that I was writing on a hard drive that crashed about a year ago. Naturally, I didn't back it up.

 

[DaCocoBrova]

^^

That sucks, but you'll see that more than likely, it'll be for the better in the long run. Unless of course that stopped you from writing any further.

Diablos... Know of any good ones (shareware)?

 

[Mister Zimbu]

Two summers ago I was creating the greatest mod for Q3, nay, ANY FPS known to man.

Windows stopped working, so I booted into my Linux partition and backed up some stuff (including this mod and its source) onto CD.

Reformat the drive, reinstall everything, and I go to copy the source back to the HD. However, it turns out that the Linux CD burning app I used only wrote the directory and file trees to the CD- it didn't actually write any data. I essentially ended up with a CD that the names of all my directories and files, but no actual data. That was brutal.

Another one: I was the coder for a Quake 3 Paintball mod (which kicked ass, by the way). I used quake3\pb as my development directory. About a year into the mod, Punkbuster came out. Guess which directory Punkbuster installs to? And... for SOME reason, it deletes all the files in the directory before installing. I wouldn't mind this nearly as much- I'd be glad to be a martyr for the Q3 community- if PunkBuster actually DID something to deter cheating. But it really didn't, and I lost all my source code due to id's negligence for naught.

 

[DaCocoBrova]

I remember that screen well...

That really sux.

 

[IJoel]

Two summers ago I was creating the greatest mod for Q3, nay, ANY FPS known to man.

Windows stopped working, so I booted into my Linux partition and backed up some stuff (including this mod and its source) onto CD.

Reformat the drive, reinstall everything, and I go to copy the source back to the HD. However, it turns out that the Linux CD burning app I used only wrote the directory and file trees to the CD- it didn't actually write any data. I essentially ended up with a CD that the names of all my directories and files, but no actual data. That was brutal.

Another one: I was the coder for a Quake 3 Paintball mod (which kicked ass, by the way). I used quake3\pb as my development directory. About a year into the mod, Punkbuster came out. Guess which directory Punkbuster installs to? And... for SOME reason, it deletes all the files in the directory before installing. I wouldn't mind this nearly as much- I'd be glad to be a martyr for the Q3 community- if PunkBuster actually DID something to deter cheating. But it really didn't, and I lost all my source code due to id's negligence for naught.

:O

The human race needs you to restart this fantastic mod.

 

[Mister Zimbu]

:O

The human race needs you to restart this fantastic mod.

You may be getting a UT2K4 version if/when I get around to finishing this schoolwork and Secret Word .

 

[DaCocoBrova]

Wait a sec...

How do I get a windows utility to fix a drive windows doesn't see?

 

[Jim Bowie]

I was editing a 10 minute video on my computer. I kept saving, and saving, up until the very end. When I tried to preview the video, after 5 precious hours of editing, it decided to delete the file.

Then, the software closed.

And then it BSODd.

Curse words flowed like the mighty Missisippi.

Not as tragic as your story, but I thought I'd share.

 

[DaCocoBrova]

Curse words flowed like the mighty Missisippi.

:lol Can I use that one?

I have a damn 200GB paper weight still... Can anyone answer my previous question?

 

[JoshuaJSlone]

That damn Chernobyl virus in 1999. Bye to everything I'd accumulated in the previous five years, pretty much.

 

[slayn]

I have a weird habit of being able to accidentally delete save files to long (and only the long) RPG's that I play when I'm about 70% done with them. =\

 

[Felidae_Khrall]

I just recently formatted the wrong drive when doing a clean install. 80 gigs of things I wanted to keep... poof!

Ugghhhhhh

 

[ypo]

Looks like your partition got deleted. I think the program you used creates a special PS2 partition, not sure if that's any different that Windows partition but give it a try. Read the doc yourself I haven't used it in a long time


http://www.cgsecurity.org/index.html?testdisk.html

Oh yea don't use WINIIP, it even fucked up my PS2 Hard drive. Had to reinstall everything. Use HDLdump.

 

[LakeEarth]

One time I was writing a program for highschool project. I spent about 12 hours on it when suddenly the file got corrupt. No problem, you'd think, I'll just check the backup (which the program I used automatically did everytime you hit save)... nope, that one's corrupted.

(checks time), hey, it's 10pm and it's due tomorrow! 8 hours of straight programming lead to one of the worst marks I've gotten in CS ever.

 

[automagnus]

I had Y2K on my computer. Didn't want to read my harddrive so I go into bios to see whats going on and and see that my date is 1902. I changed the date, but the harddrive still wasn't booting. I had to format it and natrually I didn't back up my data.

 

[Jim Bowie]

:lol Can I use that one?

Heh... yeah, it's cool.