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adamschoales

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So I can't believe it happened... today in the process of backing up my laptop to my external drive the software decided to erase everything on my external drive first. This meant that I lost gigabytes of data, including my rather epic music collection. All of it: gone.

Thankfully my movies/tv were on a seperate drive, and all the music i had gotten from private trackers over the last few months were saved elsewhere.

Also, somewhat thankfully, when michael passed away i dedicated a section of a DIFFERENT harddrive entirely to his stuff, so a great deal of my michael jackson collection will remain intact. but more or less all my MJ MUSIC is gone... concerts, albums, unreleased goodies, so much...

i've lost so much stuff its not even funny. this includes my entire musical theatre collection (well, everything that wasnt backed up a few months ago onto disc).

so i guess this is the part where i say: i wont be trading for a while and to make backups of your backups. this is the worst feeling in the world. i'm about ready to cry...

seriously folks. this sucks.
 
Aw, man, that sucks. I'm so sorry. I'm always afraid something like this will happen to me, too. I'll take your advice and try to backup my most precious things.

But you will be able to get your MJ stuff back. It may take awhile, but you will. Maybe you'll even find new stuff while you are at it? Just trying to think positively.
 
thankfully, as i mentioned, the most recent stuff is on a different harddrive and should all be intact *knock on wood*. but i did lose a few concerts/shorts (like ghosts and captain eo) that i had gotten over the years through torrents and re-downloading them is going to take months... but like you said, maybe this time around i'll be more careful, and be more organized. it just sucks since i was in the middle of begining to backup all my concerts and the like and to lose it all.
 
Ahh man, I'm so sorry to hear that :(
I've gone through my fare share of harddrive failures, losing music projects and samples (I'm an aspiring music producer) is hard.
I actually have a harddrive that is starting to act up right now, the drive where I have all my music, still I've not learned to take that as a sign and back up that entire drive and throw it away.

I should see this as a wake up call and go buy myself a new harddrive tomorrow!
 
harddrives are cheaper than ever, but of course when you're a poor student, $120 is a lot of money to spend on a drive when it can be put towards food or books or rent.

that said, if you have something precious archive it. you never know what could happen. and remember:

it doesn't exist unless it exists in three places: two drives at home, one drive somewhere else off-site.
 
Oh man, this happened to me. I had all the pictures from me and my family and friends from when I was 12-16 on a computer and it like fried. Everything was totally irretrievable. I have nothing to show for that time in my life. I was PISSED. lol I'm sorry this happened to you :(
 
im a bit puzzled how the software erased everything on the drive. i use a portable harddrive and havent had any problems with that, basically i just do a cut n paste or copy n paste from the computer to the drive. i also back up important things on dvd discs as well as ive read external drives/portable drives can be faulty from time to time. did you do regular maintainence on the external drive like regular defragmentation etc?

a good software i use on my computer is called tuneup ultilities which checks everything on the computer and portable drive, cleaning up unnecessary files and also checking the file integrity of the files saved.
 
Okay, so I'm not a computer geek - I also back everything up to an external drive on a weekly basis but it never happened that something got erased - unless it was being replaced, but then I always got the pop up message and had to confirm.
But gee... I feel for you, I really do.
I'm kinda frightened to do the back up now... My laptop contains EVERYTHING that's important to me, all the home movies, music, video clips, photos, writings, work stuff, messages - my life and memories, pretty much. YEARS and YEARS worth of stuff.
I'm seriously thinking of buying another spare hard drive now.

EDIT: or burn everything onto DVDs and CDs additionally?
 
the problem was in the software itself: its supposed to make a 1:1 copy of my harddrive, and it did that perfectly. the thing was the software was supposed to leave everyting on the drive Intact and just move the files over. it didn't do that. it erased the drive first.
 
oh shit!

but wait, isnt there a way to get it back if you take it to a specialist computer technician? cuz when things are deleted, they aren't really gone are they ?
 
Gee i'm so sorry couldn't think of anything worse the losing all your stuff.I always backup.

Susannah xx
 
I just want to second what the op said.

About 2 weeks ago my external 1tb (1000 gigabyte) hard drive died. I only owned it for about 6 months and I had moved just about everything on there because I thought it would be safer than my 5 year old hard drive.

I was sadly mistaken.

I lost about 300 gigs of music, tons of movies, important documents, and family pictures. :(

Thankfully, when MJ passed on I copied a lot of my MJ music to my mp3 player so I still have the vital MJ stuff, but that was only about 10% of my MJ music collection.

Also, I think MOST of my pics are stored on my PS3. Not all of them, but most of them. So it's not a complete loss as far as the pictures go.

So yes....please backup and then backup again, folks. When this happens it's disastrous. It's basically the digital equivalent of a house fire. You lose everything. It's horrible.
 
I've had this happen to me before too, it's really really awful. I'm so sorry this happened to you. :(
 
Just confirmed: I lost a few very precious, very LARGE (4GB) MJ Concert DVDs in my computer crash. Chances of getting em back... slim.

If my memory is correct it was:
HIStory in Sydney
HIStory in Aukland
Bad Brisbane (whats with all these aussie concerts I had haha)
The older munich discs (not a big deal really)
"Scary Pack" (Ghosts/Making of Thriller)
Making of Thriller
Bucharest Uncut
Bad Yokohama
and the Memorial in full HD (mkv file) and Moonwalker in MKV.

all were really great quality (they weren't remastered). Think most of the were the MJLAND_RO ones which are among my favourites. Since most were acquired through Torrents its going to take a while to track em down, and even if i do the chances of their being Seeds is pretty slim...
 
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