(February 24, 2019 at 10:50 pm)fredd bear Wrote:(February 24, 2019 at 7:22 pm)Abaddon_ire Wrote: I will not rehash the answers already given, but in a professional context, I have been that soldier. There exist professional companies that can retrieve data from dead HDDs. They are mostly successful, but they ain't cheap given that they do a clean room tear-down of the dodgy drive to the bare plattens if necessary.
I have twice had to engage such on behalf of clients. In both cases it was 100% successful and oddly also LACIE drives. In both cases it was horribly expensive, yet cheaper than a total loss. I am glad it wasn't on my dollar.
All fixed.
I really hate relying on computers. I usually buy a new one every three years. Probably not this time. Although expensive, the Imac
is proving to be the best computer I've ever had. I also prefer Mac and Linux to windows.
Was pretty sure the problem was not hardware. As far as I'm aware, a hard drive will simply not suddenly delete everything, that failure of the drive tends to be gradual. .Turned our it wasn't the drive.
I found a free app called "Disk Drill" . It took a few hours, but it found EVERYTHING on that drive. That meant approving each file I wanted recovered. That was then saved to a folder. I was actually quite surprise at how few files I needed to recover. I had most of those files backed up on my Imac
After getting everything I wanted, I formatted the drive and have added another folder, with video files totalling just over 100 GB. I will monitor that and see what happens. I suspect the hard drive is on its way out---I couldn't find a new hard drive using external power, so bought this one second hand. Last time I'll do that.
I don't suppose external SSD are available at a reasonable price ?
Thank you for your reply.
Available? Sure. Reasonable price? Not yet but it will happen.
Still does not protect against catastrophic failure unfortunately.
