Crashed Drive Emergency and Advice

Hey There. Hope everyone is well!

I have a 100gig Lacie Drive that is about 2 years old. Out of the blue, It stopped operating. There is a wonderful project on the drive I cut in 4.0/

I have never had this happen before, although I have heard both nightmares and sucess stories about Hard Drive that went belly up with valuable material on them.

If anyone has any advice or even a business/ Company that speciallize in either repairing hard drive or information recovery would you please forward that to me. Expecially if this has happened to you before I would love to know what you did to remedy the problem. I'm willing to deal with Professional and even small businesses... As long as I'm pointed in the right direction to a specialist I think I will be able to sleep at night.

Thank You in Advanced!!!!!!!!!!!! This Group ALWAYS ROCKS!



jesse

So is there anyone out thete who can help?



jesse

This is regrettably, a fact of life. Most of us who have used Firewire drives have at one time or another been, terrified that it would no longer mount of data was lost, etc.

The same advise is always given. If you search this forum there are many Firewire issues discussed.

If the drive is out of warranty, first; remove the internal drive and mount it in side you MAC, unless you are using a G5, then you can't.

There are a couple of utilities that might help, but they vary due to possible problems. If the format of the drive gets corrupted, it can probably be recovered by reformatting, which means loss of all data. First, try Disk Warrior to see if it's formatting. Depending if Disk Warrior even "sees" the drive, you next step is to verify if the drive is powered (spinning). Might be the Power supply.

Finally, the last step before spending MAJOR money to recover the data, is to try Data Rescue. Depending on what the drive failure is comprised of, whether or not you can get the data off at his point.

Companies like Drive Savers or other data recovery houses exist and prepare to spend thousands of dollars to recover you data, there.

LaCie drives have a very bad reputation around our territory, but Firewire in general is suspect if this is you main data repository. I learned, a long tme ago to never trust implicitly, your valuable data on a Firewire drive, even though they are the only way to archive large quantities of data.

General backups are the only safe way to be sure you can recover data when you need it. If you gotta' use Firewire, make two copies onto two different drives.

Was the drive acting strangely before it went down? Like ejecting itself and then coming back up again unexpectedly? If yes, then it could be the power supply. Try connecting a new power supply before giving up on the drive.

Clay

There are so many different things it could be with so many different ways to go, but I'd try Disk Warrior first. It recovered a drive that had gone useless on me without a hitch. All other remedies are expensive both to your wallet and to the data on the drive, and you might as well begin with the simple solution.

Scott

Call up Les Mannos (Manco) 818 841 5766 and be prepared to be very very nice.

You say it "stopped operating". Does this mean that it will not spin up?

Les has a special tool he uses on drives that do not spin up. He will tell you about it. Tell him that Harry sent you.

If he helps you, you should be prepared to buy your replacement equipment through him by way of thanks. Les is a first rate Mac dealer and technician and I've been a customer of his for 16 years.

Go immediately.

Best

Harry.



Harry Bromley-Davenport.