POTN Aussie Club #7 - Feng, where's my invoice?

Bruce_Bird wrote in post #9149448
what is the price on recovery? I heard the currency is Hope Diamonds, not Any forum of $$....

Not sure yet. I'm guessing somewhere around a grand. No cost if they can't recover a decent amount of usable images.

I have a feeling I'll be abandoning hope of getting PW flexes for a while.

blackshadow wrote in post #9146670
I ran the Easeus recovery overnight and it has found a lot of stuff. Then I needed to get another external drive to save the data to. I picked up a WD 1.5TB Elements drive from Officeworks for $159 and the files are now transferring. Looks like it will take about 72 hours to transfer the files.

All files now look to have the name FILE####.TIF or JPG at the moment. I tried to open a couple of the TIF files in PS and they won't open. I can see them in the preview though section of explorer. I'm betting they are CR2 files that have been renamed.

I'm going to have a lot of work cataloging and naming all the files by the look of it.

!@#$ing Seagate - the problem was caused when I tried to back up to a Seagate FreeAgent external drive. It died mid transfer and then I made a mistake trying to reformat the 1TB drive - mixed two 1TB drives up. The Seagate drive is a replacement to one that failed on me earlier this year.

TBH i've only ever had problems with WD's... Of course that was two drives in a thrown around laptop, and one i dropped so means really nothing... other than that never had a problem with any of my drives, internal ones (samsung, seagate, WD, hitachi, whatever's cheapest really) and externals (same, maxtor, seagate, WD, no-names with hitachi seagate WD, etc etc) I don't treat them very well either, some of my portable drives are taped together and i have a subwoofer propped up by two hard drives :P guess i'm just lucky

I always keep one backup on an external drive of everything... kept at home.. so not as good as Rai's but works okay for when the power goes out while writing things and screws stuff up, or i delete half my lightroom catalog by accident :O

I have had one thing like yours when i had gotten a new external and had to format as HFS+, accidentally formatted the internal that was about to be backed up to it... I used Data Rescue III and it found the 300gb of photos on the drive and recovered it all overnight... saved mah ass for sure! Feel your pain man...
(i guess i was also lucky because i just did the quick format that wasn't any overwriting of files...)

I've never had any problems with any HDD's (touch wood). Not sure what the current internal HDD's are in terms of brands but I've got two Imation 250GB portables that are probably not Imation drives 1TB and 1.5TB drives are so cheap these days and I've been thinking of buying one even though I hate the AC adapters. Might just wait till I buy my own desktop next year (if I do), it'll be even cheaper by then.

Welby wrote in post #9143737
Crap dosn't sound good but i have done the same before. I know disconnect any drive i don't want to touch before i format.

Finally took the wife's new car out for a few pics and here's one.

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I see that you wisely upgraded to the secondary radiator. I did the same with my impreza and have never looked back.

On the topic of drives, I swear by fujitsu. I had a drive failure in my home server. I grabbed my trusty old fulitsu 1gig drive off the shelf (where it had languished for about five years), installed a linux distro and tried (unsuccessfully) to restore the previous drive. There's a reason that deskstars are unaffectionately known as deathstars.

After that the drive was re-purposed as the main drive for a freeBSD firewall/router. Such service was provided for a further two years. It is now sitting on the shelf preparing itself for the next time I need it...

As for hitachi, unless they've performed some japanese QA magic on the deathstar range, I'd go with fujitsu.

two cents sucked dry.

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The Moose wrote in post #9149487
I've never had any problems with any HDD's (touch wood). Not sure what the current internal HDD's are in terms of brands but I've got two Imation 250GB portables that are probably not Imation drives 1TB and 1.5TB drives are so cheap these days and I've been thinking of buying one even though I hate the AC adapters. Might just wait till I buy my own desktop next year (if I do), it'll be even cheaper by then.

There are always these.

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DigitalDabbler wrote in post #9149526
There are always these.

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That actually doesn't look too bad. I'll keep that in my favourites for sure. Thanks!

Getty have released their best pics from 2009. Some great captures there.

DigitalDabbler wrote in post #9149526
There are always these.

I've got a single-drive dock like that. Terrific thing.

From Gumtree, again:

Thanks Chris.

Jaycar continues to amaze. MSY have a special on 500GB HDD tomorrow too.

Mick,

That's a bit sad that story. She only needs a good point and shoot.

justAL wrote in post #9149567
MSY have a special on 500GB HDD tomorrow too.

That's because they're too small to worry about. If you want a couple of 500GB drives, just drop past and grab 'em from me.

Correct.

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Last Saturday was beautiful weather outside at this wedding. Used a lot of reflector lighting.

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mickeyjuice wrote in post #9149574
That's because they're too small to worry about. If you want a couple of 500GB drives, just drop past and grab 'em from me.

Grab, for free?

mickeyjuice wrote in post #9149566
I've got a single-drive dock like that. Terrific thing.

From Gumtree, again:

Why do people try that crap.. You should reply with an ebay 300D/10D URL or similar

Flammin xmas.. I'd buy it myself

Bruce_Bird wrote in post #9149621
Why do people try that crap.. You should reply with an ebay 300D/10D URL or similar

Flammin xmas.. I'd buy it myself

I've got a 10D, but it also needs a lens. Stupid DSLR cameras!

mickeyjuice wrote in post #9151469
I've got a 10D, but it also needs a lens. Stupid DSLR cameras!

I have an 18-55 kit lens, however I took the rear mount off (Don't ask) and I don't think I put it back on correctly.