There is hope!
Hi everyone, I just thought I would share my latest scary experience with you and let you know that there is hope for crashed hard drives.
Yesterday I spent a heap of time sorting my thousands of photos on my computer and transferring them to an external drive (I have all images on other drives and off site but am trying to get them all sorted and in one place). Last night, just before I checked out to go to bed, my dog jumped near my laptop and unplugged the EHD without ejecting it. I plugged it back in again and... nothing... nothing... nothing. I was horrified and went to bed feeling ill at the hours of lost work I'd put in.
Fast forward to this morning and I decided to google data recovery and realised that there was help and a chance I could retrieve data from the dead HD. I downloaded a free trial which right away showed that it could read the drive so I paid the US$79 for the recovery. Not only have I been able to save the files (which don't appear to be nicely sorted any more) but it appears to have 'fixed' the non-responsive drive!
I'm now transferring all the data to a new EHD but boy am I relieved. I just wanted to let you all know that all is not necessarily lost if you find yourself in a similar position.
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