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gwynYou know how you never think you're going to be one of the people writing those posts about how your hard drive seems to have been killed or croaked in an untimely demise? But you still end up posting about it at some point in your life because your drive seems to have gone to the great silicone graveyard in the sky? Yeah. I guess I'm one now.
And I have no idea how to get it back. Everything was just peachy until yesterday, when I realized I hadn't optimized and defragged for an eon and had been making way too many vids for it to have not been defragged in such a long time. Plus, I've added a fair amount of music to my iTunes. So, I ran Tech Tools and came back a while later and it said FAILED, that it couldn't defrag, that I needed to run the volume scan or something. Which I did, about five times, and it still won't optimize. Now I'm running all these tests because when I tried to run the movie files for the rebuilt L'Abattoir Bride of Don't Fight in the Snow disc I'm trying to make, they wouldn't work and it kept telling me there were all these bad sectors, and couldn't copy files over to the iMac. So far the surface scan says 93 bad blocks, and it's barely even 1/100th of the way into the bar indicating how far the scan is going. (95, 96... I guess the whole thing is a bad block.)
I have no idea why trying to optimize killed it. And I've tried the recover feature in TT, but the LaCie external drive doesn't even show at all. Can't recover from something that's not there.
I've never figured out how to adequately back things up like large project files for the vids. So my working project files for my BSG and Life on Mars vids look like they're going to be history, I guess, and maybe even worse, all my music is gone. At least the new stuff I hdn't yet dumped into the iPod (I guess I'll have to figure that out, too).
My stomach is churning. The one thing that's always baffled me is backing stuff up. I'm still using a ridiculously old-fashioned method of rewritable CDs, which is cumbersome, but I don't have that many files to back up -- the only thing that really changes regularly with any significance are my vids, and my music -- and that's all on the external drive. So I put the newest vid .mov files onto dvds, back up the rest of the small stuff onto the rewritable CDs, and just hope and pray that nothing will happen to the new music or the working vid files. As usual, the praying doesn't work. I guess I'm just screwed, and I'm feeling pretty sick about it.
And I have no idea how to get it back. Everything was just peachy until yesterday, when I realized I hadn't optimized and defragged for an eon and had been making way too many vids for it to have not been defragged in such a long time. Plus, I've added a fair amount of music to my iTunes. So, I ran Tech Tools and came back a while later and it said FAILED, that it couldn't defrag, that I needed to run the volume scan or something. Which I did, about five times, and it still won't optimize. Now I'm running all these tests because when I tried to run the movie files for the rebuilt L'Abattoir Bride of Don't Fight in the Snow disc I'm trying to make, they wouldn't work and it kept telling me there were all these bad sectors, and couldn't copy files over to the iMac. So far the surface scan says 93 bad blocks, and it's barely even 1/100th of the way into the bar indicating how far the scan is going. (95, 96... I guess the whole thing is a bad block.)
I have no idea why trying to optimize killed it. And I've tried the recover feature in TT, but the LaCie external drive doesn't even show at all. Can't recover from something that's not there.
I've never figured out how to adequately back things up like large project files for the vids. So my working project files for my BSG and Life on Mars vids look like they're going to be history, I guess, and maybe even worse, all my music is gone. At least the new stuff I hdn't yet dumped into the iPod (I guess I'll have to figure that out, too).
My stomach is churning. The one thing that's always baffled me is backing stuff up. I'm still using a ridiculously old-fashioned method of rewritable CDs, which is cumbersome, but I don't have that many files to back up -- the only thing that really changes regularly with any significance are my vids, and my music -- and that's all on the external drive. So I put the newest vid .mov files onto dvds, back up the rest of the small stuff onto the rewritable CDs, and just hope and pray that nothing will happen to the new music or the working vid files. As usual, the praying doesn't work. I guess I'm just screwed, and I'm feeling pretty sick about it.
