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

thanks Evan and all other replies - I agree, no more Lacie for me.  
I've had good luck with Rocstor.

Phhhew! That was close.


On Jun 11, 2008, at 9:50 PM, Evan Benjamin wrote:

> I am pleased that you didn't lose any data. But in my experience,
> Lacie drives are very unreliable. I try and stick to other brands,
> like OWC, or G-Tech or even Glyph. More money, but probably worth it.
>
> -Evan Benjamin
> On Jun 10, 2008, at 3:25 AM, Greg Critchley wrote:
>
> > 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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