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I lost my entire music collection
StoreTags: mp3, music, complete fuckin
Author: gl0tch on March 10 2007 Viewed 5599 times. 12 people liked this blog. You can rate it below if you haven't already.
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So my fiancée and I lost our entire music collection to a piece of shit 250GB Lacie harddrive that somehow magically died after a recent flight across the country. This happened 2 days after working fine and mere weeks before my wedding. I am so numb and so upset I can barely type this. I can't even comprehend the magnitude of this loss. I feel as if I just witnessed my cat being pulled apart limb by limb and eaten by a band of dirty savages. If I had to choose between this or my apartment burning down with all my clothing, books, and furniture.... I'd be roasting fucking marshmallows right about now. I can't even listen to music in the car at this point. I'm realizing how much of a large part of my conversations, in speech or online, are dedicated to music. It's like I've completely lost one of the most important things in my life. Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck.
- Every mp3 from a CD my fiancée ever owned, ripped, and resold to a used cd store... gone.
- Every mp3 from a CD I ever owned, ripped, and resold to a used cd store... gone.
- Every mp3 I ever acquired; through friends, through iTunes, through slsk, or whatever... gone. Crazy autechre live sets; gone. Demos my friends sent; gone.
- On top of that, every hi-res source file that I have archived during my work as an album art designer is gone. My images library and disc templates are gone. My MFA research materials are gone too. My Mecha pics are gone. My machine parts image library is gone.
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I've obtained the Top 5 OSX Data Recovery and HardDrive Solution programs out there. NONE of them work. None of them have fixed the problem. Nothing shows up on the desktop of my MacBook Pro. I guess it’s not able to mount or something. Disk Utilities is showing errors and somehow it won’t continue repairs. It reports back: “The underlying task reported failure on exit”
– In Disk Warrior, I tried to rebuild the directory, but it says “the directory cannot be rebuilt because the file system is unsupported.”
– In Drive Genius, what little Scanning I did seems to report mostly bad sectors, though I stopped the proces early since the rate it was going would have taken over 488 days to complete. (btw-I have no clue how to do the sector/hex edit option).
– In TechTools Pro 4, trying to “Recover Files Using Directory Data” doesnt even show my external HD as an option onto which I can perform this function. However, when running Test Devices, my external is available and passes the tests.
– In Rescue Pro, I get Read errors like a bitch and (just like the scanning did in Drive Genius) the sectors around 11000-12000 slow down to a crawl.
– The drive also isnt loading on a PC
– Oh, and in fucking Data Rescue II it says its going to take 2000+ hours to do a thorough scan BEFORE I can even attempt to recover anything (assuming there is something there to recover)
What the fuck am I going to do? I’m suspicious that there is a clever way I can still get access to my shit without paying thousands of dollars to duplicate and dissect my HD. I’m wondering if there’s a way to temporarily by-pass the bad sectors so I can access the goodones. Arrgghh! Fuck me, this fucking blows. This is nearly overshadowing everything.
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I think I am going to not listen to music again until I finish a proper release for the first time in my stupid life.
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autistici
if there is anything i can give you to try and reseed your collection let me know
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autistici
when you get past the shock and anger
you build a better library
and have it better organised and you will understand its value and you will create more images and music as a result
these burns always make us stronger
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sAMsKi
um, does it really cost that much to get the stuff back off your drive? my company had to pay £3K once (because our backup failed as well) but that was because it was striped across 3 raid drives. they seemed to suggest it was cheap if it was only one drive...but i don't know what 'cheap' is.
maybe take it to the police and say you suspect it has child porn on it...........um, no, scrap that!
......if you have no joy, i have lots of music and if i can help you rebuild your collection i will gladly do so.
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Fredo
I was thinking the same thing... anything I can help you out with in the way of music?
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energygiant
oh god....here's a shoulder to weep on
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fakeBlooper
as a last resort, i've heard of people putting their bad drives in a sealed baggy and freezing it for a few hours. i don't remember the explanation, but it's been known to help long enough to get important files off the bad drive. otherwise, i feel your pain.
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quip
well heres every live autechre set link
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quip
also qwip on soulseek
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zfigz
This exact same thing happened to me...all my digital pictures and all my music. 80gb+ of music / a few years worth of pictures...
I just put my head up high and I started to back shit up. Super Duper is what I use now. It does the job...I'm up to 10gb of music...I'd love for people to seed some tunes for my sake as well as gl0tch's sake.
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jdg
tell me the EXACT modl number of your lacie drive.
i will go from there.
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EsromCole
Sorry to hear it man. Truly disastrous. Here's a couple links to some data recovery services. Hope it helps.
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Fredo
I bought a bunch of Lacie drive for important data backup about a year ago and found through online forums that I can only expect them to last one year and not a day longer. Many owners found that not shortly after a year of ownership these drives failed.
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ignatius
ouch. man i'm really sorry. that blows. i still have all my CD's that i care about. i just won't sell them. i want the record. also, i have my music collection on 2 drives and lot's of it on my ipod. what i'd really miss is all the killer live sets i've downloaded and songs from friends and pictures!!!! and all that stuff. that's what'd make me really upset.
anyway- i'm sorry man. if you were my neighbor i'd open my harddrive to you and let you copy anything you wanted. if you come to portland you can rip any CD i own.
best of luck on any data recovery.
oh, i clicked that i enjoyed this blog but i didn't enjoy it at all. 
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datathinner
i know an awesome and easy way for you to recover those files - check your backup.
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tonearm
fuck dude. that really blows. I was just thinking about this the other day. I have some irreplacable stuff on my ext. Maybe I should buy a bigger one and back everything up, though I do regularly copy everything to DVDs, just in case. Ah, the perils of the digital life eh? who said it would be easier
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