Digital BW, The Print

Another possibility is a $70 program called Spinrite® available online from GRC.com. It has quite a reputation for recovering bombed disks (as long as they still run). You may have to let it run for days. The record (no kidding) is that it recovered a disk completely after running for 3 weeks! I'd give it a try. The last alternative is a commercial data recovery service but it is very expensive --- line $2,000.

Best of luck,
John

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Glenn" <glennrbarry@...> wrote:
>
> Paul,
> Depending on your level of tech experience competence a program called ddresuce may allow you to recover irreplaceable data.
> 
> Scenario would be boot from a live Linux CD/DVD- any distribution, and use ddresuce to recover data from the crashed drive.
> 
> The process may take upwards of 24 hours, takes 15 minutes to initiate, not 24 hours fortunately. Then you leave it running.
> 
> The other option of professional data recovery can get very expensive very quickly
> 
> BTW monitor new drives closely for the first few months as there is a phenomenon called infant mortality.
> Basically saying the ones that scraped through Q.C. fall off the perch early, then there's an established safe operating period of several years and the failure rate begins to rise again.
> 
> peace out
> 
> Glenn
> 
> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Jayanand Govindaraj <jayanand@> wrote:
> >
> > It is cheaper to buy a few 4 TB external drives and backup on a continuous
> > basis - get a robust backup program - preferably from a trusted source you
> > expect to be in business for a long time to come, even if it is relatively
> > expensive. Once a week take a one time backup and send the physical drive
> > into off site storage (bank safety locker, or some such). Cloud remains
> > slow, and quite expensive for the more trustworthy names once your
> > requirements reaches multiple terabytes, because the pricing goes into the
> > realm of enterprise rates.
> > 
> > Have a look at this to narrow your requirements down:
> > 
> > http://www.wdc.com/en/products/productpicker/
> > 
> > If you have a Thunderbolt port on your machine, this might be the best bet
> > (for MAC or Windows) - it will give you blazing speed:
> > 
> > http://www.wdc.com/en/products/products.aspx?id=630
> > 
> > Cheers
> > Jayanand
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 2:25 AM, Paul <roark.paul@> wrote:
> > 
> > > **
> > >
> > >
> > > With my main/desktop crashed, a weak laptop, and not such a great backup
> > > routine, I wonder if laptops and commercial cloud back-up are at a place
> > > where they can work for the large digital files full frame cameras produce,
> > > as well as serious image editing and printing work.
> > >
> > > I have a new hard disc that I'll probably just stuff into my existing Dell
> > > box, but the interruption of my work that this crash has caused has
> > > certainly gotten my attention.
> > >
> > > I suppose there are 2 issues -- computer power and cloud backup -- that
> > > probably need to be dealt with individually.
> > >
> > > I must say, it's been a very long time since I've had a hard disk crash
> > > before retiring the computer for other reasons.
> > >
> > > Paul
> > >
> > 
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