hard drive fail - catastrophic spot lost

[ChinaTom]

Israel, Haifa Bay, half way up the hill to the Crowne Plaza = white Tredia 1.6 GLS. 11 photographs taken - great condition.CTRL X'ed them from camera to laptop. Next morning laptop HDD kippers itself.

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

Quick, put it in the freezer.

[M'coli]

Have you taken any images since on the camera? There are ways of recovering deleted photos so long as they've not been overwritten.

[ChinaTom]

Unfortunately yes I have - several hundred. They are of control valves and acid addition pipe-work, so no substitute for a Tredia

[barrett]

WHS/\

 

shame if you lost this, that really is a monumental spot.

dont think i've ever seen one....now i'm craving some Tredia action:

 

[retrogeezer]

This programme will find all images on your memory card, even deleted ones I think:

 

http://www.z-a-recovery.com/digital-image-recovery.htm

 

You can also hook the laptop hard drive up to another computer as a slave to recover files.

[myglaren]

You can also hook the laptop hard drive up to another computer as a slave to recover files.

What he ^^ said!Even if it won't boot if it will spin up you have a chance of recovering your photo's. Just done it with my daughter's primary drive. Photo's of her kids from birth to very recently.

[chester drawers]

More information needed on the laptop HDD.First of all is it detected by BIOS? Recovery by shiteists may well be possible depending on the nature of the failure.

[M'coli]

You can also hook the laptop hard drive up to another computer as a slave to recover files.

I've done this a couple of times with a HD at work, sometimes Windows will check the disc and sort it out so that it is bootable from again. Remember to set the faulty HD to 'slave' rather than 'master' so that the computer boots from the healthy HD using the pins and little plastic 'jumpers'.

(Below is just a sample picture)

[dieselnutjob]

I advise you not to try and boot from this drive again.Booting from a drive and starting up windows (or whatever) creates a lot of disc activity and reduces the chance that you will read your files.You need to boot another disc and then attempt to read the files from this drive.You can either remove the drive and stick it in a USB caddy box, and then plug that into another computer, or you can boot something like knoppix from a CD.Once you have it booting from another drive then navigate to the old drive, find the files you want, and copy/paste them onto another drive or usb memory stickand yes, making a drive cold can help

[ChinaTom]

All advice passed onto the chap who is tinkering with my machine. He claimed to know all of it, but he keeps shaking his head and making that slit throat gesticulation that spells bad news. I may get another trip back to Haifa later this week to have another go with the camera. Fingers crossed. Tel Aviv is full of normal dross - nothing of excitement.

[RedSparrow]

I love how everyone rallies around in support over the prospect of seeing a picture of a Tredia!Thats what this place is all about!

[MrRegieRitmo]

I love how everyone rallies around in support over the prospect of seeing a picture of a Tredia!Thats what this place is all about!

+1

[seth]

Especially when it is a simple task to Google for one. Or indeed just look at Barrett's post.

[ChinaTom]

Final outcome was that the drive would not spin. My laptop was full of syrupy gunge caused by years of working in hot steamy factories which kind of drew a cock over the whole trip really. Back in UK now with new laptop on order.Soz about the Tredia pic loss. I'll go in search of another.

[STUNO]

After you get the new computer..Wash out all the gunge etc, leave a week to dry, then plug it in It might even go again, they do strange things like that

[dieselnutjob]

I'll have a go at recovering it if you want

[Pillock]

I'd be very, very surprised if your hard drive itself was full of gunge, being a sealed unit with only a filtered breather hole to the outside world. A speck of dust will wreck the heads, they are sealed very tightly!A bit extreme for a Tredia pic but often getting an identical drive and swapping the circuit board from the bottom sorts a drive that's not powering up at all. As a last resort, a swift tap on the SIDE can free stuck bearings but that's a one-shot, get-it-wrong-and-you've-buggered-it-anyway sort of approach. If it spins but sounds like machine gun fire, that's a headcrash and is often data lost for good.Failing that for a few grand, my place uses clean rooms to rebuild drive mechanisms. How much do you need that picture?

[Guest]

As punishment for this loss, you must now obtain the Tredia itself and bring it here for inspection.

[ChinaTom]

As a last resort, a swift tap on the SIDE can free stuck bearings but that's a one-shot, get-it-wrong-and-you've-buggered-it-anyway sort of approach. If it spins but sounds like machine gun fire, that's a headcrash and is often data lost for good.Failing that for a few grand, my place uses clean rooms to rebuild drive mechanisms. How much do you need that picture?

Think that somebody tried the bearing idea. I left the drive with a chap over there who claimed to have a lot of clever trickery based solutions. I briefly mentioned the Tredia, but this is also a fairly well known company name in Israel, so I expect he has gone hunting for financial data and pictures of the CEO under the influence of Kristian Digby or something.Hirst, that is precisely the sort of irresponsible sentence that leads to big arguments, divorce and long term batchelorhood. Sounds like a plan...

[Richard]

A bit extreme for a Tredia pic but often getting an identical drive and swapping the circuit board from the bottom sorts a drive that's not powering up at all.

I once suggested that to a friend of my wife's when the disc containing their entire photograph and music collection buggered up. I only said it to make them go away really but it worked.

[Pillock]

I once spent 8 solid hours - a whole work day - unbuggering a chap's hard drive, he sent a letter with him computer saying how the hard drive had failed and they'd lost all the pictures of their firstborn's few weeks.Rescued them all, burned them to DVD, phoned him up and suggested he might make a backup next time. Then got an almighty bollocking from the management for doing no actual work that day! Apparently customers matter, until they take up too much time

[ChinaTom]

How about this for compensation:

 

Surely the only top 10 sales ever to feature this car.