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I lost my entire music collection
StoreTags: mp3, music, complete fuckin
Author: gl0tch on March 10 2007 Viewed 5396 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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03/11/07
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dach
You should probably make a backup
03/11/07
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gl0tch
heh, this was supposed to be my backup... I only turn it on to copy files over. It's kinda difficult to back up one's backup ya know? Esp. when your talking almost 200+ GB of music... that's a lot of DVDs. I guess I will have to go that route next time though.
03/11/07
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PYVND
Something similar hapened to me when I had to wipe my PC once. Afterwards, my entire Sonic Stage library (Sony) would not import even though I had backup. Sony has now fixed that stupid problem but I lost a lot of music I had spent time digitizing into that library. And of course I lost a lot of CDs I had gotten rid of after importing them. In the end, I learned that the stuff I had gotten rid of I did not really like anyway. It sucked, but it forced me to be more selective with the music I keep around and all that. I am sorry for your loss homefries but it WILL be ok! You'll be even better off later on :-)
03/12/07
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implexgrace
DVD-RWs bro.. so you can add/remove shit that you don't need or update programs without having old archives
03/12/07
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Inoyun
03/13/07
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jogn
Don't forget rws typically don't last longer than just rs.
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