Re: Click...and that's the end of that

On 2006-06-12 13:32:47 +0100, JasonB <jasonB@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> said:

If the data on the disk is critical you could take the hard drive to a data recovery specialist and have them pull the data off of the platters. It would be worth talking to Apple if you need to do this some data recovery companies are certified with hardware manufacturers so as not to void the hardware warranty when they open the hard drive.

Had thought about this. Fortunately, by backup regime is actually pretty good - I've lost 'only' two things: an iMovie project I could easily put back together, and a Parallel's Windows virtual machine.

That's the kicker though - because that virtual machine contained my accounts. My last backup was over a month ago, so I'm going to have to sit down and go through the process all over again. Lovely.

I -had- been backing it up using Backup and the trick of using a Parallel's share (ie. the Quicken files were on a native filesystem, not a virtual machine). That didn't work though - see earlier newsgroup postings. Because of this, my backups for it are woefully out of date.

Damn. Next time I'll do what I did under Virtual PC: create a separate virtual disk image just for the data files, and have Backup deal with just that image (ie. no trying to copy multi-gig VMs about the place).

Because of the high cost and the lack of guaranteed success (all understandable), I think I'll go down the 'sit and type it in again' route. After all, I've got all the paperwork trail.

Not having much luck with drives. My Powerbook drive went down, our very own JonB replaced it for me, and then the machine got nicked anyway. Now my insurance replacement for that suffers drive failure too. Maybe I'll start checking the walls of my house for embedded magnets...


Cheers,
Ian


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