[bmstinton93]

* * * *! My hard drive appears to have crashed! Bollocks! Had all the Moyles shows on there. Plus over 100gb of films and 300gb of TV Shows. I'm hoping this can be recovered somehow. It currently is trying to make me format it and won't let me read any of the files. *! :@

[bmstinton93]

Right my Blu ray player reads every file. Technical people, whats the fix to get it working on my laptop again?

[ianpwilliams]

Nasty. But at least it sounds recoverable. First thing I would do is head over to the fantastic PC Help Forum:

http://www.pchelpforum.com/xf/

[bmstinton93]

Right, I've tried posting there. Hopefully they can help. It must be recoverable if the blu ray player can read every file on the hard drive.

[ianpwilliams]

They'll definitely be able to help, they've helped me with so much stuff over the years. Have you got a USB hard drive for backing up? I've got loads of stuff backed up, but now my university course is over it's only really my Moyles archive that I care about.

Edit: I got page 100

[bmstinton93]

This is an external one atm. I will buy a backup hard drive now though I think if I can get this sorted.

[ianpwilliams]

Yeah it would be worth it, if only for the most essential data. You could even get an older 3.5" one (which requires it's own power supply) to save money.

[bmstinton93]

I already have one of them...! 2TB Hard drive for like £80 off Amazon.

[ianpwilliams]

Damn! You've got too much data then!

[chrysostom]

Netflix?

[bmstinton93]

That's not gonna help recover the Moyles Shows easily. Over time I suppose I can eventually just download everything again but that will take far too long.

[R94N]

I was going to suggest using a cloud backup service but with that amount of data you'd have no chance.

[bmstinton93]

Well if I get it all recovered I'm definitely buying another hard drive to back it all up to!

[mikelomaxxx14]

* * * *! My hard drive appears to have crashed! Bollocks! Had all the Moyles shows on there. Plus over 100gb of films and 300gb of TV Shows. I'm hoping this can be recovered somehow. It currently is trying to make me format it and won't let me read any of the files. *! :@

Sounds like the boot partition (or partition table) has been damaged, so it doesn't understand that the drive has anything on it. The fact it can be read is good (suggests the method of reading from the Blu ray player doesn't rely on the boot partition) as it means the data is intact but can't be seen as the system runs off the boot first.

As to how you fix it... er, if i find out then I'll get back to you.

[bmstinton93]

Do you think it sounds fixable then?

[neilt0]

Buy a new drive, copy the data from the knackered drive to the new drive. Use R-Studio or GetDataBack or a freeware alternative.

Once your data is recovered, make regular backups and/or use a RAID setup.

[bmstinton93]

Will GetDataBack definitely do the job? I'll consider buying it if it does? Remember the files are still on the hard drive so they haven't actually been deleted as such.

[bmstinton93]

I've got a program called 'PC Inspector File Recovery' and that won't see any files.

[neilt0]

Will GetDataBack definitely do the job? I'll consider buying it if it does? Remember the files are still on the hard drive so they haven't actually been deleted as such.

Did you visit the site? That and R-Studio have demo versions. Try them. Or get a freeware alternative. Google is your friend.

[ianpwilliams]

Thanks for them. Good to have some new shows to download.

But by any chance you could could save them as 128kbps instead of 320kbps once you've edited them, like the others are (ideally 44.1kHz too)?

Also, we usually use this format when posting them, so they can be copied straight to the archive list more easily:

[url=http://archive.org/download/ChrisMoylesShowThursday5thApr2012Edited/20120405.mp3]Thursday 5th April 2012[/url]

[bmstinton93]

Yesssss! Downloaded the full version of GetDataBack off pirate bay and seems to work. Got some files off perfectly. Will spend the night copying my films to my laptop then buy a new hard drive for the rest this week if I can.

[mikelomaxxx14]

Yesssss! Downloaded the full version of GetDataBack off pirate bay and seems to work. Got some files off perfectly. Will spend the night copying my films to my laptop then buy a new hard drive for the rest this week if I can.

It might have just been a blip, when you have all the data reformat and it should work again...

but also having a backup is not a bad idea just in case...

[bmstinton93]

Yeah I'm definitely getting a backup now. I had my music backed up on this hard drive but now I'll get another to back the rest up. And I'm hoping a format of this drive will make it work again.

[slaphead1982]

Thanks for them. Good to have some new shows to download.

But by any chance you could could save them as 128kbps instead of 320kbps once you've edited them, like the others are (ideally 44.1kHz too)?

Also, we usually use this format when posting them, so they can be copied straight to the archive list more easily:

Thursday 5th April 2012

I have met you half way. You may have noticed that I have put them up here as dates now (Is putting the studio guest on too much?). The kHz is already what you recommended just through luck more than judgment. I'm not tech savvy enough to go looking for that sort of thing before hand (or at any point) I've noticed that the sound quality dropped when I reduced the Kbps so that will remain the same, I hope that does'nt cause any trouble.

[ianpwilliams]

Thanks. Although that last one has a syntax error (it has "url" at the end of the URL).

As for the kbps, there is usually an option in most programs where you can not only choose the kbps, but also the quality level (high/medium/low), and with high quality selected that you can usually retain a decent level of quality even at 128kbps. If there is no option, then 192kbps is usually the lowest you can go and still retain a decent quality level. The only thing I would say is that if you can get a smaller kbps that you are happy with, then it will be quicker uploading the files. And the amount of required hard drive space for the whole archive won't be quite so big (it's already over 100GB!). But it's up to you.