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last week me hard drives packed up due to various reasons, the main being a virus attack for 15 mins which caused windows explorer to run at 100% in turn the overheat destroying the boot sector partition of C drive and others sectors being zero written as the hard drive got overcooked.
took 3 days of intensive work by my brother, qualified engineer (over qualified) to be able to disect the hdd and build it back up from the dead to be able to even access the destroyed boot sector by analysing the hdd under dos, and running various dos commands only known to a few
following whatever was done he was able to fully rescue my hdd even though it took 3 days of hardly any sleep resulting in all my files somehow made to be accessable and copied under dos to a different partition before zero writting my C drive and making it as good as new
i now have all my data back safely without losing a single thing, and if anything the C drive is now twice as good as before speed wise so massive big up to him, if anybody else has suffered anything like this feel free to get in touch

few m8 close call i hate it when i 4 get to save leatalone loose a whole system

i've been meaning to burn important things to DVD's and store them. now that i've said this on the internet i'll come home to a burned down studio.

somejerk wrote:i've been meaning to burn important things to DVD's and store them. now that i've said this on the internet i'll come home to a burned down studio.

I have lost a few drives full of important shit. I kinda like starting with a clean slate. Actually the last time I lost a drive, it had all my drum and bass samples and project files on it. That is when I quit making DNB and started making dubstep. I definitely don't look back and get depressed. Moving forward!

abZ wrote:I have lost a few drives full of important shit. I kinda like starting with a clean slate. Actually the last time I lost a drive, it had all my drum and bass samples and project files on it. That is when I quit making DNB and started making dubstep. I definitely don't look back and get depressed. Moving forward!

Me too had a similar experience while playing/messing with linux back in the days, and it made me grow production wise (and backup wise!)

abZ wrote:I have lost a few drives full of important shit. I kinda like starting with a clean slate. Actually the last time I lost a drive, it had all my drum and bass samples and project files on it. That is when I quit making DNB and started making dubstep. I definitely don't look back and get depressed. Moving forward!

thats exactly the outlook is was trying to take as there was a point where it seemed everything was lost, i could see certain positives. as far as production goes, i feel as though ive only just hit a performance level that im happy with over the last 2-3 months or so, but of course it would've been a huge shame to just lose it all like that.

so if i can help anyone through this rather unpleasent episode its all good, though lets hope i dont have to

man that is rugged

what shit!

Yeah nasty, but theres no substitute to backing up regular.
A virus that malicious must be from downloading things you dont know what they are.
Use a secondary hard drive for backup, and then back up the backup if you can to HD / DVD.

running various dos commands only known to a few

this made me laugh. he knows secret dos commands? wow! if you ever have a hard drive crash or a partition suddenly go bad, you should always use the hdd manufacturer's diagnostic utility. trying to fix bad sectors with chkdsk or fsck for the linux guys, can sometimes result in losing all your data. manufacturer's utilities tend to be more specific and can fix bad sectors quicker and faster. if you get too many bad sectors in certain parts of your drive or have to overwrite too many bad sectors, it can eventually be completely unfixable and never boot/format or hold a partition again. sometimes the master boot record just goes and you can easily resolve with fixmbr or fixboot.

*waiting for somebody to say: should have got a mac*

relik wrote:

running various dos commands only known to a few

this made me laugh. he knows secret dos commands?

lol, no they arent secrets, but they arent exactly common knoledge either

you can download apps to do this too.. it depends on what's happened to the partition table and to the file system and how many times it's been formatted, etc.


mac, PC... doesn't matter.. hard disks all store data in essentially the same way. there's always ways to recover unless you do techniques like mac's "overwrite with zeros" type of formatting where it litterally overwrites all data with zeros. you can do this at 8 passes or like 32 passes or whatever. super secure formatting. aside from doing that, it's generally recoverable to some degree.