November 16, 2004

• I would like to take a moment to completely and wholeheartedly endorse...

  Data Rescue.

  And the reason for this? It managed to pull all the important data off that hard drive that died a while back, taking all my photography with it.

  This is me, doing a happy dance.

  I also want to point out that it wasn't just a matter of running Data Rescue to get these files back. It seems that what's broken about the hard drive is that sometimes powering it on turns it schizophrenic, making horrible whirring and clicking sounds, while other times, very rarely it should be added, it will power up and act civilized. Kind of a Dr. Jekyll/Mr. Hyde type thing, except the emphasis is on Mr. Hyde.

  So basically, in addition to the hours it took for the software to extract the files, I had to go through about a hundred permutations of: power on hard drive, insert FireWire cable, click 'Rescan for drives...', and so forth. Sometimes I could hear the read/write head banging around inside the mechanism like Ginger Baker, and other times it would scurry back and forth across the platter in increasingly tight movements until the drive would make a loud click, reset itself, and go through initialization again.

  Basically, it was like a living thing, going about living in all the wrong ways.

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