Portable Hard Drive Not Working

[maxyoz]

Hi all,

I was doing 150 game highlight movies for Ty Allen and Ruory Kirkby last night when my Verbatim 500GB Portable HD dropped, now it doesn't work. Thank God I got their movies finished first, but every Glenelg movie I have done since 2006, including most games, are on there plus a truck load of photos and work stuff. Yes, I know, Back it up, but it kind of was my Back Up.

Anyway, does anybody know of a restorer or somebody in Adelaide who might be able to retrieve the data and put it on a new Portable HDD?

Many of you might think that it is probably best not to have these Glenelg games anymore, but I have countless hours of work put into these and it's the only real record I have.

Thanks in advance.

[Dog_ger]

Why do you only back up to 1(one) hard drive..?

If you don't back up to 3(three) hard drives, you haven't backed up.

My experience...

Costly but safe.

It's only money but in the long run it's cheaper.

There is always information that can never be recovered.

[dedja]

Disregard the resident moron Maxy, email sent.

[Pseudo]

Disregard the resident moron Maxy, email sent.

Did the email mention subzero temperature?

[dedja]

Easy Tiger, I'm hoping the HDD isn't frozen ...

[Dog_ger]

Well, what is the outcome..?

Everything recovered..

[CentreHalfBench]

Can you give us any more information about what went wrong with it? What happens when you connect it to your computer? Is there any response?

Hopefully it's just a damaged partition table or a bad sector here and there.

[Psyber]

I managed to access data on a malfunctioning hard drive by putting it in a computer as a secondary HDD and booting the computer on one of those active Linux disks using a 32 bit version of Ubuntu that came with a magazine. I copied the data to another plug in HDD.

[CentreHalfBench]

Yeah but his hard drive is a portable.

On a side note, ubuntu is god for disk repairs!

[Psyber]

Yeah but his hard drive is a portable.
On a side note, ubuntu is god for disk repairs!

Mine was portable but I could unscrew the case and remove it.

[Punk Rooster]

Why do you only back up to 1(one) hard drive..?

If you don't back up to 3(three) hard drives, you haven't backed up.

My experience...

Costly but safe.

It's only money but in the long run it's cheaper.

There is always information that can never be recovered.

have you heard of the "cloud"?

[RustyCage]

Why do you only back up to 1(one) hard drive..?

If you don't back up to 3(three) hard drives, you haven't backed up.

My experience...

Costly but safe.

It's only money but in the long run it's cheaper.

There is always information that can never be recovered.

have you heard of the "cloud"?

I've a fair few 100GB of photos, so I prefer to back up on hard drives personally, I'd go few a few months internet allowance just recovering photos, let alone anything else if I backed up everything from a cloud

[stan]

Quick one all. I play movies from my portable HD through my xbox but the xbox only sees Fat32. Any way to format a 1Tb drive in fat32?

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[kickinit]

Quick one all. I play movies from my portable HD through my xbox but the xbox only sees Fat32. Any way to format a 1Tb drive in fat32?

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Don't know about windows but apple has a disk utility which pretty much does it for you, i'm guessing windows will have one. The HD will need to be wiped to do it though, so you would want to back up anything you have on there.