Aug 182010
Picked up the external hard drive from the data recovery people. Appears to have been a “perfect” recovery, all data. The problem with the original data was with the firmware (the hardwired-in software the runs the drive itself), probably caused by electrical power problems. The drive with the recovered data is currently hooked up to the laptop, which is hooked up to *another* new backup drive. Data is slowly copying over. Looks like it’ll be a job of many hours.
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Next thing to do: Go on ebay, find a 3ware raid card (2 is enough ports, four is better) and build either a RAID1 or better a RAID5 array so you can lose one drive and not have to panic. I have two in service and they’re worth the investment.
Jim
Welcome back.
You’re overdue for some good news.
The awesome thing is that I’ve got more *bad* news. It’ll just take a week or so to fully figure out if it’s “annoying bad” or “well, time to go” bad.
Which sense of time to go? Hang in there.
Jim
> Which sense of time to go?
Yes.
Funny you should mention a 3ware card; I just copied all my data OFF of my 3ware card, and ONTO a software raid setup, because I was worried about losing my 3ware card, and then losing all access to my data.
If the data is behind an OS raid setup, I can lose my CPU, motherboard, RAM, SATA controller, etc. and my data would still be easily recoverable on any system.
I was worried that 3ware might not even exist in the future when my card fails; they were just bought and sold once or twice.