Post by: Parker on June 14, 2007, 07:04:37 PM
THINK AGAIN!
Like many, i thought i could get away with just shutting off my computer to unplug a drive,
and now i'm running Data Recovery software on a partition of an external drive that happened to be in use when i decided to "force" shutdown my computer so i could unplug the disk and be on my way...
My shameful move of the day
I'll update y'all on how the data recovery process goes...
and PS:
IF THE DRIVE HAS PICTURES AND MUSIC ON IT... THINK TWICE BEFORE DOING ANYTHING DUMB WITH IT AND TAKING ANY SHORTCUTS...
Or Mr. Murphy will most likely be knocking on your door
Post by: kelly on June 14, 2007, 07:08:42 PM
Post by: gunug on June 14, 2007, 07:09:19 PM
Post by: Parker on June 14, 2007, 07:20:03 PM
It saved my information AGAIN!
When i first bought it, it was because the main boot drive of my PowerBook G4 was corrupted, and this happened THE DAY BEFORE A SHOW (School play), When i needed to show a movie before the show started. Ran Data Rescue II, recovered the file i needed,
!Then when i got home, i ran Data Rescue II to recover the entire drive, which had all of my music and pictures on it. My iDisk also saved me too, because i kept all of my school work and important documents on it, so i was able to access all of those instantly from another machine.
Second time:
A flash memory card on my camera decided to start causing trouble, and when i mounted it on the computer, some pictures showed up and were working files, while other pictures showed up and the files were bad. DATA RESCUE II 'TO THE RESCUE' AGAIN! Ran the program to recover everything on the memory card, and all of my pictures were saved! (Luckily, they weren't personal pictures where it'd be heartbreaking to lose all of the pictures, but they were pictures from our school's boys varsity soccer quarter-final's game, so they were kind of important...)
Third time:
this time!
Running Data Rescue II as we speak! Did a quick scan of the drive and all of my files showed up, thankfully!
They're all recovering right now (hopefully it'll be successful... *knock on wood*)
Lesson learned: Buy the newer version of Data Rescue II
Other lesson learned: EJECT DISKS BEFORE REMOVING THEM, and if you see that little window stating that the drive is still in use... be patient!!
Post by: Parker on June 14, 2007, 07:51:33 PM
DATA RESCUE II
Post by: Parker on June 14, 2007, 08:24:52 PM
i open disk utility,
click verify disk,
reports no problems,
and mounts!
Do you believe in magic...?
I DO NOW
Post by: jwboyd on June 14, 2007, 08:54:23 PM
I do a SuperDuper backup every night, so I always have a bootable drive with all my system and data files on it. It has been several years since I had to do any data recovery for my own drives. Before I retired I used to do it a lot for other people when I was the school district's "go-to guy" for Macs.
Post by: sandbox on June 14, 2007, 11:21:20 PM
I have myself pulled the plug on a firewire. Or just shut it down without going through the ejection phase and found myself in a similar position. I can't remember how I recovered the data back in os 9 days, but I managed somehow.
I’ll look into Data rescue, I see a demo download and also a reduced price at Amazon for $83.00
http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/B00...7878398-8768149
Post by: MamaMoose on June 15, 2007, 07:43:03 AM
MamaMoose
Post by: Jack W on June 15, 2007, 08:08:42 AM
That has been efective for me.