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HEIRESS
06-08-2010, 12:20 AM
I had the powercord plugged into the same surge protector powerbar as my computer.

Computer turned back on just fine but my external won't power up.

I turned off the power button, switched usb ports and outlets on the powerbar that the HD was plugged into and nothing.

All I keep reading online is that it's ridiculously expensive to rip info off of an HD that won't power up.

I had like 6 years worth of pictures on there

:( :( :(
checkyourprez
06-08-2010, 12:45 AM
that blows. thats always the problem with electronics. you could have 100 external hard drives but they could all do that eventually. (not likely but still) nothing like the real thing i suppose. however 6 years worth of pictures would be a lot of picture books!
HEIRESS
06-08-2010, 01:04 AM
It was a good 250g of pics, atleast...
HEIRESS
06-08-2010, 01:22 AM
now I'm just getting shit online from my friend for buying an external HD without a firewire port on it. I wasn't thinking about shit like that 4 years ago for fuck's sake!
Adam
06-08-2010, 03:31 AM
The data is probably fine. You should be able to take out the HDD and put it in another caddy. Or an independent computer shop will extract the data pretty cheap for you if you can't be bothered messing around.

I would say for future safety, grab a $25 Flickr account and stick them all on there as it can't blow up when in a cloud.
jabumbo
06-08-2010, 11:30 AM
don't think that volume of info would be worth the cost to retrieve it?


you've probably got some friend who would revel in the challenge to pull it out for free...
checkyourprez
06-08-2010, 11:42 AM
don't think that volume of info would be worth the cost to retrieve it?


you've probably got some friend who would revel in the challenge to pull it out for free...

im sure most would rather put it in than pull it out.
nodanaonlyzuul
06-08-2010, 01:24 PM
I highly recommend backing up all photos on flickr, even if you don't set them as shared nor get a paid account right away/constantly.

No matter what, flickr keeps all photos you upload period. If this happens again, then you can pay for a pro account once (and that lasts a year), there is an app to download all the flickr photos at once, voila... your photos are back :)

Next time, though. :( That sucks.