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I lost my entire music collection
StoreTags: mp3, music, complete fuckin
Author: gl0tch on March 10 2007 Viewed 5398 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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03/10/07
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license
I was just thinking today, of all the hard drive crashes over the years, and that I wish I would've just backed up regularly, twice a month at least. I think I've gotten detached from all the work I've done as a result. that kind of sucks. I always feel like I'm starting from square one. ack. I really hope you can recover your stuff. this was painful to read.
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gl0tch
Hey, I just wanted to thank everyone here for their kind words. I'm pretty much not going to allow myself to think about this until I get back after the wedding (which wont be till April by the time everything is done).
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datathinner
congrats on the wedding!
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gl0tch
heh, thanks! That's the main reason why I need to let this shit go...
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bleen
lacie=shitty death
congrats on the wedding and better drives in the future! 
03/11/07
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implexgrace
i love you and any music of mine is music of yours. i will use my bandwidth to help your cause.
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EsromCole
Yeah congrats on the wedding fuh sho. May all your liquor be cold, your woman be hot, and all your problems slide off like snot.
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ricemutt
Once I had an entire massive CD wallet of music stolen from my car by fucking tweekers. that actually changed my life, for the better! It made me totally re-think the way I related to music. Sucks, man... hope something good comes out of this for you.
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datathinner
argh. if i hate any one type of drug-user, its got to be tweekers.
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gl0tch
that's what I am hoping. I am seriously going to be more particular with what I get. I'm really seriously considering not listening to anything until I make myself sit down and finish some tracks
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soundhdack
those lacie drives are shit. trust me, i know the feeling.
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soundhdack
oh, here's a utility i've been meaning to try. you can try the demo to see if anything happens. if it works then you have to buy a license in order to recover the files. stellar phoenix. it's $180, but it could be worth it.
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soundhdack
@ fredo
mine died exactly when the warranty ran out. right on time at one year. i tried to get them to honor it under warranty, but no go. i don't buy any lacie stuff anymore as a result.
sorry about off-topic. back on-topic.
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jdg
its the FW to IDE bridge that dies on them.
this is what i mailed glotch:
this is the part where you void your warranty.
1. take it apart.
2. unplug and replug every single connection inside.
3. try again.
4. if that didn't work.
5. if there are TWO IDE drives inside.. you're ____, skip to step 10
6. remove the IDE drive.
7. get this: link
8. plug in your IDE drive from the lacie into this and then into your computer via USB.
9. you should be golden.
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10. buy another lacie drive of the exacdt same model..
11. take the two hard drives from your old one, and put them in the new one (voiding its warrenty)
12. you should be golden.
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ignatius
jdg said: "its the FW to IDE bridge that dies on them.
this is what i mailed glotch:
this is the part where you void your warranty.
1. take it apart.
2. unplug and replug every single connection inside.
3. try again.
4. if that didn't work.
5. if there are TWO IDE drives inside.. you're , skip to step 10
6. remove the IDE drive.
7. get this: link
8. plug in your IDE drive from the lacie into this and then into your computer via USB.
9. you should be golden.
10. buy another lacie drive of the exacdt same model..
11. take the two hard drives from your old one, and put them in the new one (voiding its warrenty)
12. you should be golden."
i would do this if i were gl0tch
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