Where's Mick (SMS)?
Re: Where's Mick (SMS)?
Good to hear that it is just a computer glitch that caused the absence.
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GHOSTHUNTER
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Re: Where's Mick (SMS)?
Mick, I know exactly how you must have been feeling as I too have had computer issues, but sadly I have still not managed to get all my data back and its hard scrabbling around for priceless pictures and information to be able to converse with the forum.
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Re: Where's Mick (SMS)?
There are not many people who know how to recover data from virus crippled hard drives or even ones that have broken. I know a hardware engineer who can - I have had a hard drive failure twice and 2 viruses that locked me out of my computer (one by changing the logon password!) over the past 8 years and aside from the 1st time where the hard drive was heat damaged he has always got my photos back for me. When I lost less than 1000 photos maybe a year after beginning digital photography it was upsetting - now the most important are backed up on a memory stick and hopefully this week the whole lot will be backed up on a 1TB external drive. That hardware engineer had a kidney stone removed and then got a dose of food poisoning which kept him out for 3 weeks........GHOSTHUNTER wrote:Mick, I know exactly how you must have been feeling as I too have had computer issues, but sadly I have still not managed to get all my data back and its hard scrabbling around for priceless pictures and information to be able to converse with the forum.
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As long as Kev´s data hasnt been destroyed by heat it should be a simple matter to re-install his hard drive in a computer that works to unload it.......
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Re: Where's Mick (SMS)?
Thanks for the advice Mick.
I purchased a hard drive docking station, the First drive works and I was able to save some data the shop did not. The Second drive, the most important drive with all my data on it, powers-up but the laptop throws up a message saying I must 'Format' this drive before I can use it, which if I do, will wipe away all the date I want to recover!!
I have tried Three laptops now with this Second drive powered through the docking station, but each time it wants to be formatted. It looks like I am going to have to open it up and swap the board or platter into the First drive chassis and see if the laptop is then happy to read it.
I even tried to re-assign the drive's port number so the laptop had something to look for instead of searching for a drive number, but this did not work.
The drive is not heat damaged, it suffered a heavy drop, so is more likely to be mechanical, but as I mentioned above, it does power-up and spins the platter, so it looks like the read-write arm is having a problem.
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I purchased a hard drive docking station, the First drive works and I was able to save some data the shop did not. The Second drive, the most important drive with all my data on it, powers-up but the laptop throws up a message saying I must 'Format' this drive before I can use it, which if I do, will wipe away all the date I want to recover!!
I have tried Three laptops now with this Second drive powered through the docking station, but each time it wants to be formatted. It looks like I am going to have to open it up and swap the board or platter into the First drive chassis and see if the laptop is then happy to read it.
I even tried to re-assign the drive's port number so the laptop had something to look for instead of searching for a drive number, but this did not work.
The drive is not heat damaged, it suffered a heavy drop, so is more likely to be mechanical, but as I mentioned above, it does power-up and spins the platter, so it looks like the read-write arm is having a problem.
GHOSTHUNTER.