My editor may've lost my indie film from his harddrive. Ask me anything.

[donotpassgo]

Especially if you know anything about Data Recovery.

[LearnedHand]

1. Holy shit!

You DO have a copy, don't you?

[donotpassgo]

3. Only on VHS...

We were a week or two away from being DONE.

[LearnedHand]

2. Oooh. Data recovery is SOOOO expensive!

...to do it right, that is. You have to hire folks who specialize in it.

[donotpassgo]

4. yeah...loooking into it now.

Hopefull we wont have to go that route.

[LuLu550]

5. I am so sorry!

I lost my entire hard drive a few years ago...years worth of work...
I thought I was going to die! Hope you get all that hard work back.
Good luck!

[donotpassgo]

7. thanks...

Worst case scenario is we have to edit all over again...3 months tops, plus I'd have to call my heinous ex-girlfriend to re-do some work.

[ComerPerro]

6. What are you going to do to him if the film isn't recovered?

Just curious

[donotpassgo]

8. we have a VHS copy of a next to final cut...

just use that as the starting point.

[tridim]

9. I once lost my music partition

not MP3's, but my own music that I recorded over many years. I was ready to send the drive out to have the data recovered but decided to try a product called "File Scavenger" instead and got 99% of the data back for $29.95. :) It was several years ago, but it's probably still available.

[TrogL]

10. platform?

operating system?

[donotpassgo]

11. PC...Windows 2000(?)

External Harddrive...no grinding or heat. He's going to buy an identical harddrive and replace the board.

[AWD]

12. Do you have system restore??

Being a Windows system, you should.

Go to Start, choose Programs, the Accessories, then System Tools, and it should be in there. Follow the instructions and it's like a time machine for your hard drive.

[donotpassgo]

13. I dunno...I assume my editor already tried it.

[Plaid Adder]

14. Is it a Dell?

Does he want someone to write an angry letter for him? Cause I've had some practice.

Good luck,

The Plaid Adder