Re: HOW DATA RESCUE 2 SAVED MY A**!!! and WHY U SHOULD BUY IT NOW

Phew! I feel for you. Makes me feel like getting more drives for backup!

Good to hear everything turned out well though.

BG,

erik

> After i impatiently and foolishly powered off one of my Lacie drives
> (the computer was hanging on startup and I thought that might "help")
> the disk became "unreadable" and the OS wanted to initialize it.
> Since it contained about 200Gig of extremely important and valuable
> data (logic files and attendant audio files, mastering sessions in
> pro tools etc) and projects/songs that were un-replaceable, a casual
> reformatting was not an option.
>
> No biggie - i ALWAYS have an exact copy of everything on another
> drive - usually I buy pairs of drives and backup constantly - so i
> wasn't that worried....yet....
>
> Until I restarted....panic....now 2 drives were unreadable, my main
> project drive AND its backup. I was *&%^$#*^'d...in a huge way - all
> of the musicians I had paid. The artists I had produced....the co-
> writers, mixers.....it went on and on.
>
> neither drive responded to Disk Utility, disk warrior, OR tech Tool
> Pro....so i was ready to give up, when I started googling and
> googling....
>
> soon i had downloaded Data rescue, and had it perform a 3 hour scan,
> and another 3 hour "something' before it could then copy what it
> found to another drive.
>
> This morning (copying took 5 hours) i awoke to see a successful
> recover, in the software's opinion...but I still wondered if the
> Logic files would remember they were Logic, and whether or not they
> would know how to find audio, and how much data I had lost...I was a
> mess.
>
> So I hooked the recovery drive up to my rig...saw Logic icons (whew)
> and loaded the first song. Since the directories had changed (the
> drive now had a new name) it took some time to find all of the files,
> but they were still in the same relative directories as before. It
> was relatively simple, and VOILA....the first song played and opened.
>
> after 24hours of opening songs and projects (most valuable to least
> valuable) I can report that EVERY SINGLE SONG was recovered and plays
> perfectly. I am COMPLETELY saved from the nightmare or losing all of
> that work time and expense.
>
> I also went out to the comp store and bought 4 new Rocstor drives -
> I'm doing 3 copies of everything from here on in...and NEVER
> unplugging a drive again!!
>
> Thanks DATA RESCUE!!! - hope this helps someone else.
>
> Search terms - data rescue, data retrieval, data recovery, drives
> down, drive failure, won't mount.....
>
>
> 



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