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Hey all… from Thessaloniki, Greece.

Posted by jim G on January 22, 2008 at 9:55 am

Hello everyone i had already registered last year, but the sad part is in the space of 2 months my 3 pc which held every single info crashed and data was not recoverable, so here i am again.

Jadran replied 16 years, 4 months ago 14 Members · 14 Replies
14 Replies

Robert Lambie

Member
January 22, 2008 at 9:57 am

welcome aboard Jim. 😀
Warren Beard

Member
January 22, 2008 at 10:04 am

:welcome: Jim
Marcella Ross

Member
January 22, 2008 at 10:26 am

Hi and welcome Jim 😀
jim G

Member
January 22, 2008 at 11:12 am

Thank you all for the welcome. 😀
Shane Drew

Member
January 22, 2008 at 11:49 am

hi jim. welcome again 🙂
Ian Bingham

Member
January 22, 2008 at 5:00 pm

Hi Jim

Go there every year love the place

Ian
Andrew Bennett

Member
January 22, 2008 at 5:45 pm

Hi Jim,
I had that happen to me just before xmas.
Its a pain, especially as I lost all my saved paperwork for a civil court case.
I went out and bought a Maxtor external HD . I know its shutting the door when the horse has bolted….
Maybe you might want to do something similar.
Harry Cleary

Member
January 22, 2008 at 6:49 pm

Hi and Welcome 😀
Lynn Normington

Member
January 22, 2008 at 7:16 pm

hello Jim and welcome back 😀

Lynn
Nicola McIntosh

Member
January 23, 2008 at 4:06 pm

welcome back to the boards jim 😀

nik
Duncan Wilkie

Member
January 23, 2008 at 7:17 pm

All the best Jim. Welcome back!
Brian Little

Member
January 24, 2008 at 12:21 am

hi jim ….welcome mate ….hope your getting things sorted …pcs …..who needs them ? 🙁
David Rowland

Member
January 24, 2008 at 12:55 am

has a tech checked your data correctly?

Put the bad drive in the bay of a working PC (Not as main drive)

Download the Free http://www.uneraser.com/

Let it scan, there is 2-3 levels of scanning, some which wont recover the names.

It should list out all the files (the Root of the harddrive contains something called the MBR which is a list of all files), this might need rebuilding.

The when you buy the full version, it will recover the files, i think it allows you to test it before you buy.

If you harddrive is doing the dreaded ‘click of death’ .. tick tick tick or bang bang bang, then thats bad. There is a way of getting them working again, by sending to a specialist company but they are normally expensive. One method they use is to buy the identical harddrive used and to take out the actually disks and put them into a new drive (same model), very hard process and needs to be done in a clean room.

It has been known to hit the hard drive, the platter head gets stuck.. but becareful! I am not to blame.!

If cool and not used for a time, drive might spin up for 2-3 minutes from cold, might be enough time to salvage.

Ok. hope that helps
Jadran

Member
January 24, 2008 at 7:41 am

Hi Jim and welcome.

Hope you made a backup of info this time 🙂
same thing (but with less pcs) hapend to me not so long ago. now i keep one pc just for regular daily backup.