Have you ever lost all of your music collection on your hard drive, i did today
long story short the one time i did not back up "media" hard drive, i get a botched partition.
about 2013 mp3's, 11.65GB of music. its going to be a long weekend
2 BIG BOOKS OF ALL MY CDS WERE STOLEN FROM MY CAR IN MY GARAGE
"Accidentally" re-formatted the partition.
yeah i should have been more specific i was making a second partition to install Ubuntu.
A microSD card I had snapped in half. 16GB
The twist?
It was the card that had my backup of my docs and pics from my recently dead hard drive
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Remember when i was going to backup and transfer my music from my iMac to my new laptop before formating. According to the iMac it would take about 8 hours. That was a big fat NO, so i didn't back it up. Big big BIG mistake. I still hate myself!
At one point I kept ALL my music on my iPod. Hard drive failed and lost it all. Then I replaced the hard drive and managed to download most of my music. Then the iPod caught fire.....
More recently the external harddrive my dad and I used for backups was taken by the police as evidence
Your friends are lanning and you never got a single message.
My HDD died. IT was a week before i managed to get everything over from my iPOd. and the files are STILL messed up
only 7 gigs of files left to fix...... (out of 22)
Had my external HDD die on me while I was between computers. 13.5 gb gone.
had that happen before. back ups are a must. you never know when you might need them.
I've lost lots of files, but I can't remember if there's been anything important.
I've got redundant backups, and offsite backups.
For EVERYONE, check out Crashplan. Unlimited size, offsite backups. $60/year. I've uploaded 500gig to them.
www.crashplan.com
500GB how long did that take to upload?
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Hey all,
I imagine that most of you are more advanced PC users than I am, but just in case someone doesn't know this already I wanted to let you know how I solved the issue of lenovo laptops with vista "stealing" half your hardrive.
I have a Lenovo 3000 N100 with an 80gb hard drive. About ten gb is for the windows partition, and I should have about 67gb left over. Well, after using for a couple of months I noticed that there were about 30gb "missing" from my HD. I kept running disk cleanup (deleting shadow copies and old backup points) and defragging, but just couldn't get the space back.
Eventually I figured out that if you show all hidden folders there is a folder called "RRbackups" on the root of C drive. Open it up and you find a folder called "C" it is HUGE. Stupid lenovo rescue and recovery was taking full backups of my entire hard drive regularly. I had 28.6gb of images in there
I deleted them and then un-installed lenovo rescue and recovery to keep it from happening again. i am very happy to have my hard drive back and there are a plethora of good backup utilities out there to replace the Lenovo garbage.
Another storage issue I have with Lenovo and Vista is the rediculous amount of error reports that pile up. I clean about a gig worth off the drive every week (using disk cleanup). Does anybody know why there are so many or have fix for that?
I hope this can help someone!
I bought two of these through T-Mobile. My wife's is still working, but mine is bricked. It happened the first week of August 2011 during trip in the Philippines. I maxed out my internal drive with videos, and was in the process of moving them to the SD Chip, but before I had a chance it bricked on me and is now in a continuous loop at the logo screen. Anyhow, I need newbie help, because I have never dealt with Android issues like this. Is there anyway, I can get my photos without formatting? Is there an update?
I did manage to free up 1.5 gigs internal before it bricked on me. But my videos of the country and my family are what have been lost.
I tried to Factory Reset the (option #1, user data only), but afterword still loops. I really had some nice videos that I do not want to lose in my gallery. I was hoping I could upgrade to a new version in order to save the data. Is there any hope?
I have read other forums, and seems you must format.
This really bites!
To add to the confusion, after we got back to my wife's parents house I put the SD Card in my wife's laptop to see if any videos or photos were moved over. After shutting down her computer to eat with her family, my wife's computer began doing the same thing my tablet was doing with Windows XP Media Edition. I was lost at this point, because I became suspicious of a virus or trojan. Could this have been a virus? Because now her computer loops into the blue screen of death screen and never boots up. I know this may have nothing to do with or maybe it has everything to do with it, because her laptop is a dell, too! LMAO!
It was a hell of a trip. Experienced an Earthquake and two Typhoons there to add to it! LOL! But I had great time!
You can use nvflash method to restore your ds7. Look through this section for thread "Restoring the Streak 7 using NVFlash".
To keep the content of your internal sd card from being over written, follow the instruction here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1104093&page=4
It will tell you to do not use p22.img.
Dellstreak7sux said:
I bought two of these through T-Mobile. My wife's is still working, but mine is bricked. It happened the first week of August 2011 during trip in the Philippines. I maxed out my internal drive with videos, and was in the process of moving them to the SD Chip, but before I had a chance it bricked on me and is now in a continuous loop at the logo screen. Anyhow, I need newbie help, because I have never dealt with Android issues like this. Is there anyway, I can get my photos without formatting? Is there an update?
I did manage to free up 1.5 gigs internal before it bricked on me. But my videos of the country and my family are what have been lost.
I tried to Factory Reset the (option #1, user data only), but afterword still loops. I really had some nice videos that I do not want to lose in my gallery. I was hoping I could upgrade to a new version in order to save the data. Is there any hope?
I have read other forums, and seems you must format.
This really bites!
To add to the confusion, after we got back to my wife's parents house I put the SD Card in my wife's laptop to see if any videos or photos were moved over. After shutting down her computer to eat with her family, my wife's computer began doing the same thing my tablet was doing with Windows XP Media Edition. I was lost at this point, because I became suspicious of a virus or trojan. Could this have been a virus? Because now her computer loops into the blue screen of death screen and never boots up. I know this may have nothing to do with or maybe it has everything to do with it, because her laptop is a dell, too! LMAO!
It was a hell of a trip. Experienced an Earthquake and two Typhoons there to add to it! LOL! But I had great time!
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Fastboot into clockwork recovery from your computer ( open command prompt to your tools directory after copying the clockwork recovery image in the android sdk directory and type : fastboot boot streak7cwm.img ,then Mount storage and copy them off
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Streak7cwm.img is what I named the clockwork recovery image as I work with several devices on my computer. If you download the image here it will have a different name. I fastboot all my devices externally into cwm without issues. Hopefully you can still get into fastboot. If so, your data should be recoverable.
Hi,
I have a 3.5 year old Toshiba Satellite laptop (Windows Vista 32-bit) and I just recently purchased a 320GB Seagate external hard drive to which I want to back up my important files. While I was backing up, however, I found a problem in my filesystem.
Some of my documents seem to have been deleted from the system; however, the file is still in the filesystem, it just has no data in it. The files show 0KB and the date of modification is 1/1/2000, as if the files are completely empty of all data. I lost backups of all my USB flash drives for the past 4 years and a backup of the SD card in my SGS4G. (I don't know if this is important information, but the data that I lost was modified about a week ago, possibly on the same day).
I don't know if this is a virus, a result of my attempts to back up my files (I doubt this one), or a sign of an imminent hard drive failure due to some bad clusters. I ran CHKDSK from the recovery partition on C: and I found no bad clusters and no problems on the drive. A virus scan through avast! also came up empty. The Geek Squad told me absolutely nothing.
I don't know if I should get a new laptop soon or what, but my plan is to wait until the bitter end and use this computer until the HDD finally fails. I've backed up almost everything I wanted to, I just lost a few files.
If anyone has any input whatsoever, it would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.
--cpkelley94
There's a thread for PC related issues, which you can find here...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1765837
Thread closed.
I am using Samsung Galaxy note 2 and a song 32gb class 4 SD card. A couple of days back, I noticed that something was missing from my gallery and holy ****..all my pics and videos from the camera folder were missing. There were more than 2000 in number and around 10gb in size. But when I checked for storage size, free space was same.. 4GB even after the loss of 10 GB. I recovered them using Recuva. After recovering the data I did a quick format and moved the data back to memory card. Today when i was in the gym, I noticed that songs were getting repeated very frequently and when I checked, I had only 29 songs left out of 550 and again i was left with the same amount of free space as I had before the loss. I tried to recover it through Recuva, but this time I could recover only 121 songs. I use to swap my card between my htc chacha and note 2, but that's not the first time. And when i recover files from my card, the path shown in Recuva is something like this.
G:\? \
Anybody got an idea, what's the matter? I hate SONY and this is a last Sony product that I have bought in my life. It's my 3rd card which I got as a replacement from the company. I was planning to buy a ps3, but I have changed my mind. I will go for an xbox instead, because after one year of buying my psp one of its button stopped working and company said it can't be repaired.
I have a similar problem. The card disconnects very often and usually many of the stored data become corrupted. I changed the sd with other brand and the same thing happens.
Maybe there is a problem with the sd reader of my note.
Have you tried another microsd to check if it is the microsd's fault before blaming sony?
I guess you didn't read my post properly my friend. I have mentioned that it's my 3rd sd card, which I got as replacement from the company. I had kinda similar issues with the those 2 cards too. Kingston was working fine. Now I have placed an order for samsung sd card. But I wanna know the reason why it is happening? That wired drive path... Whats is that
I have the same issue on the TW roms. But on CM roms no problems at all..
I have same problem
I put phone into overnight charge and had a black screen of death in the morning. Needless to say that I was taking better care of the phone than of myself Good news it was still under warranty, bad news motherboard has to be replaced so all of my info for the last few years is gone. Since I never backed it up, ALL except for pictures on flash card goes into garbage at Samsung repair place in Texas. During the past month phone acted strange 2 or 3 times started freezing for no reason I guess it was THE SIGN that it turns into typical Note 4 soon. Had faith in Samsung since Note 2, Note 20 blew it, oh well.
It should be rock solid stable. When you see behavior like that many times it's the only warning you get before a crash and burn.
You have a SD card slot, why weren't you using it as a data drive?
All critical data goes here. Only loaded apps and the download folder should be on the internal memory. The DCIM files should be transferred to the data drive regularly. After downloaded files are vetted they too are transferred to the data drive to be archived.
The data drive is then redundantly backed up to at least 2 hdds that are physically and electronically isolated from each other and the PC on a regular basis. Never clone or compress backup files as it will damage some file types/data bases especially media ones. Never encrypt or password protect backup data as you are the one most likely to be locked out!!!
You need to implement a well thought out, comprehensive plan to prevent data lose in the future. There are only two kinds of PC users, those who have lost critical data and those that wiil... been there, done that... a whole data base spanning years
I have over a dozen backup hdds in various locations. I also use a .5tb OTG flashstick for "dirty backups" of my SD card. The PC I use to copy backups is always offline from the internet to help prevent malware breaches. Hdds should be stored in a cool, dry place preferably in earth grounded metal boxes ie a safe or ammo can preferable wrapped in antistatic bubble wrap or the hdd's original plastic shell if it had one.
Try asking, begging Samsung to do data recovery on the old mobo, you might get lucky.
They have the capability at some level to do so.
Going forward never put yourself is this position again as it is a painful reality. More lessons from the school of hard knocks... meh.
Yes 512Gb flash card almost empty. So what program for data drive/backup would you suggest?
toshik1 said:
Yes 512Gb flash card almost empty. So what program for data drive/backup would you suggest?
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I manually cut/paste everything. I don't like surprises. My file organization has evolved as a direct result of this
Never have just one backup copy... you will get burned.
If you find a reliable incremental file backup app that can cross platform with PC let me know.
The holy grail...