To all you techies out there, especially those of you who have some Mac experience, I could use some opinions/advice.
I purchased a 50 GB My Book Western Digital external firewire hard drive a few months ago. I have a 1Ghz eMac with a 60 GB hard drive. I moved all of my iTunes, photos, documents and movies on to the new drive. I did not partition the drive. I also haven't backed up to another format for a long time. Stupid I know, but rehashing what I did wrong won't help me now.
So suffice it to say the drive has failed. I have sent it to the recommended data recovery company (recommended by WD to do things in a way not to void any warranty). Based on the errors I'm getting it sounds like a corrupt file. I am waiting to hear from the data recovery company as to what they find. The price structure they have given me is from $400 to thousands. I paid $200+ for the drive. I can replace the music, and movies, but the photos are a no go. I had alot of photos.
So what I need is any opinions or advice on what to do from here. Get the drive back and find a local place that might charge less? Try and do it myself?
Also, if it turns out to be a corrupted file, could I have prevented this by partitioning the drive and backing up to the other side? If not, how do I prevent this from happening again?
Thanks for your help gang.
I purchased a 50 GB My Book Western Digital external firewire hard drive a few months ago. I have a 1Ghz eMac with a 60 GB hard drive. I moved all of my iTunes, photos, documents and movies on to the new drive. I did not partition the drive. I also haven't backed up to another format for a long time. Stupid I know, but rehashing what I did wrong won't help me now.
So suffice it to say the drive has failed. I have sent it to the recommended data recovery company (recommended by WD to do things in a way not to void any warranty). Based on the errors I'm getting it sounds like a corrupt file. I am waiting to hear from the data recovery company as to what they find. The price structure they have given me is from $400 to thousands. I paid $200+ for the drive. I can replace the music, and movies, but the photos are a no go. I had alot of photos.
So what I need is any opinions or advice on what to do from here. Get the drive back and find a local place that might charge less? Try and do it myself?
Also, if it turns out to be a corrupted file, could I have prevented this by partitioning the drive and backing up to the other side? If not, how do I prevent this from happening again?
Thanks for your help gang.
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