HELP! Data Recovery

[buckfaster]

My external has crashed and burned and (embarassingly) I hadn't backed up any of the shit on it (yes, I know, stupid, stupid and stupid), so I'm wondering if a) anyone here has had similar issues and b) can anyone recommend a good, cost-effective Data Recovery service?

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[dubsaw]

Data recovery is very expensive!!

Doubt you will have any luck tbh.

can be like £300 for a decent size HD.

Also normally all the file names and shit will be missing, so for music project is pretty useless, unless you know the file structure from the HD, which i doubt.

It sux hard, but i went through this made loads of calls, and was even more disapointed than if i just admitted it was fucked.

Also if you have run any "scan disk" or recovery yourself that will have mayeb fucked it even more.

Sorry for your loss mate, but best to get over it and move on.

[dequo]

are you sure it was the actual hard drive or the external circuitry shit.

if you have a friend with an external hd case, rip urs open take out HD and put in external case...

if ur HD shows up on the computer but you cant access it, its prob the HD that died

[connection]

Data recovery is very expensive!!

Doubt you will have any luck tbh.

can be like £300 for a decent size HD.

Also normally all the file names and shit will be missing, so for music project is pretty useless, unless you know the file structure from the HD, which i doubt.

It sux hard, but i went through this made loads of calls, and was even more disapointed than if i just admitted it was fucked.

Also if you have run any "scan disk" or recovery yourself that will have mayeb fucked it even more.

Sorry for your loss mate, but best to get over it and move on.

I hate to piss on your fire Dubsaw, but this is utter bollocks!

For those of you that use PC's, and have lost files from your HD, they are recoverable. Nothing's lost until you give in! (unless your HD has defo given up the ghost and died)

The link below is a DOS based application I ran recently when I my portable/external HD died on me, wiping out 12 years of samples that I'd built up, as well as photos, MP3's, Documents, movies, everything. I had given up and thought the worst, but managed to recover everything using this:

http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk

The site gives you the app download and there's links to guides on how to use it (it takes a bit of getting used to, but is fairly straight forward. I'm no OS geek, but managed to work this).

Have faith people!!

[dubsaw]

Data recovery is very expensive!!

Doubt you will have any luck tbh.

can be like £300 for a decent size HD.

Also normally all the file names and shit will be missing, so for music project is pretty useless, unless you know the file structure from the HD, which i doubt.

It sux hard, but i went through this made loads of calls, and was even more disapointed than if i just admitted it was fucked.

Also if you have run any "scan disk" or recovery yourself that will have mayeb fucked it even more.

Sorry for your loss mate, but best to get over it and move on.

I hate to piss on your fire Dubsaw, but this is utter bollocks!

For those of you that use PC's, and have lost files from your HD, they are recoverable. Nothing's lost until you give in! (unless your HD has defo given up the ghost and died)

The link below is a DOS based application I ran recently when I my portable/external HD died on me, wiping out 12 years of samples that I'd built up, as well as photos, MP3's, Documents, movies, everything. I had given up and thought the worst, but managed to recover everything using this:

http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk

The site gives you the app download and there's links to guides on how to use it (it takes a bit of getting used to, but is fairly straight forward. I'm no OS geek, but managed to work this).

Have faith people!!

That will work if it is a file structure problem, but as the OP said it crashed and burned, so i guessed he is talking physical damage, which in a lot of cases with portalble HD is the case, as they are very proun to knocks and bangs.

Aint trying to be a kill joy or nothing, but when mine died 1000 people said try this and that, and all it made me was more disapointed.

Don't get me wrong i hope you can have more luck than i did, but unless you are 100% sure there is no possible way that it's physical damage, then nothing is certain.

Good luck