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15 years.....gone. Thanks Windows.

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ark_ader:
Depends on how you view 15 years.

If it was precious - I'd take the drive to a professional.

If it was oops i learn't my lesson - try to recover it yourself.

Remember recovering data is one thing. Recovering data using the wrong tools will make it worse, or near impossible to get back.

I would start thinking of getting a NAS or a USB external.  I have both and use HDD for archival use.  At the end of the day its cheaper to store on HDD than burning to DVD.  I had to recover and destroy 1000 DVDs with film stock I created with my video camera.  It took two weeks non stop getting it off the discs.

 

Grasshopper:

--- Quote from: ChadTower on November 14, 2008, 10:33:54 am ---Ow... ow.

Always disconnect data storage drives when making OS changes.  Don't store valuable data on your OS drive with Windows.  Keep them physically separate - not even separate partitions, keep the valuable stuff on a drive you can unplug when there is potential danger.

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I totally agree with this. It’s the only way to be sure.

A few months ago I set up a dual boot Windows XP/Linux system. I already had XP on my main hard disk and didn’t want to risk shrinking the XP partition. So I decided to put Linux on a smaller secondary hard disk I had lying around. I physically disconnected the XP drive and then changed the BIOS disk boot sequence before installing Linux on the second disk. I then reconnected the XP disk, put the BIOS settings back to what they were, and manually set up a dual boot system using Grub for DOS. It was a lot of extra work, and took a bit of trial and error to get right, but was absolutely worth it.

You simply cannot trust Windows. Another obnoxious “feature” of the OS is that it has a habit of silently writing over the MBR. This is OK if Windows is the only OS on your computer but it can screw up a dual boot system.

SavannahLion:

--- Quote from: Grasshopper on November 14, 2008, 02:24:33 pm ---You simply cannot trust Windows. Another obnoxious “feature” of the OS is that it has a habit of silently writing over the MBR. This is OK if Windows is the only OS on your computer but it can screw up a dual boot system.
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That was the only reason I stayed with floppies for so damn long. It was less effort to keep a small 3.5 half in a drive than it was to mess with a trashed MBR every time Windows decided it knew my box better than I did.

Level42:

ChadTower:

Those commercials make me want to buy a Mac and destroy it yelling "WHY DID YOU HAVE TO MAKE DIE HARD IV SUCK SO BAD?!  IT IS ALL YOUR FAULT!  KEEP KEVIN SMITH OUT OF MY ACTION MOVIES!"

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