Today, I did it. Maybe it's unimportant to you guys, or probably a simple thing. But today I retrieved all my files from WALDO! (the busted WD 2tb enclosure!)...Yeah it was something I got depressed about a week ago. It was something I find hopeless and dreadful, but now look at me standing tall and proud...smiling and saying "Hey I got my files back!"Anyway just to sum it up, I'm really thankful...no...actually jumping with joy because I got all my personal file back from the busted Hard drive enclosure. Maybe it seems lke a simple solution but believe me in the Philippines setting, it's not! Anyway to those who care about what happened I can outline some sequences of the events:
1. Hard drive got busted, enclosure doesn't turn on anymore, panicked, asked for some friends help, no responses at first finally got one.
2. Went to a friend's place (timothy Tuazon a.k.a. mr. comp expert) late at night, he did some tests, treated us pizza, but with no avail, HD still doesn't work. Tim recommends to send it over to "Peanut" (a.k.a Mr. Computer demi-God, also works as head of Trend Micro R&D), left hard drive to tim's place...
THE NEXT DAY
3. Went with tim to Trend Micro office in Manila, meet with "Peanut", peanut says "let's try" left HD drive and enclosure to "Peanut". Went home...
4. Got a call from Tim saying peanut somehow made the HD running: Good news....The hard drives are running fine. The bad news: No files can be read by a Windows based file recovery software....meaning they can't see any files from it...I panicked. Tim tells slim chances of hope. I felt depressed but not hopless.
5. Called Western DIgital Philippines (sucks), told them about my problem, I got negative responses from them saying they can only give me a new HARD Drives but not the files, pissed off...anxious, trying to find another way. Also got a call from tim saying tons of reported incident to peanut regarding a busted WD 2tb my book studio edition 2 (same as waldo) ironically peanut also received a similar report on that same day I reported mine, (told myself WD sucks!)
6. I realized I got another Hard drive I used before to keep those files that were inside the busted HD enclosure, already erased from that hard drive but tried to perform "DATA Recovery 2 & 3" (A software for recovering data for MAC on that Hard drive, crossed fingers!...
7. Fail to recover past deleted files!...panicked again...starting to lose hope...but not entirely...looking for other ways. Ask timothy for advice, tim tells me a similar HD enclosure that's working, with a mac OS computer "could" do, tim says no promises and chances are slim but we could try. Felt demoralized again, but still think thought positively
8. I texted "peanut" when I could borrow working enclosure of Similar model of HD..."peanut" never replied, maybe busy, maybe annoyed. Anyway must find a way.....
9. made a shout out on Facebook stating "I need a WD HD enclosure blahhhhh"....unexpectedly, a fellow filmmaker and a fellow Cinemalaya finalist responded saying he has the same HD enclosure that's working but it's with his editor (Light in the end of the tunnel). I immediately asked his editor if I can use this fellow filmmaker's HD for recovering my files, he agreed (excited about it, thanks so much Teng and Dempster!)
10. Went to this fellow filmmaker's Editor's place, (Thanks Dempster!) he even fed us some snacks...chat with him with some topics, tried to put my working hard drive (but busted enclosure) to his working enclosure,,,, stupid WD design hard to pull out Hard drives, very bad design Hard drive plastic handles easily breaks off, useless handle, no release buttons or whatever! My hands ached, Dempster's hand too, it took 3 people to release the Hard Drives from enclosure and voila it opened the files that tim says was missing!!!! and it works!!!! I transfered those files of mine from those Hard drives with busted enclosure to a working Hard drive back up of mine....Finally all files retrieved!
11. Went home smiling, all files retrieved, thanked fellow filmmakers who extended hands to help...everyone happy especially me!!!!! Then made back up files........
Ok I survived this mess, but ofcourse I'm generous enough to share some advices on how to overcome this kind of mess.
-always back up, ok we got some budget problems, but you should back up no matter how small the budget you have, ask a friend for a spare HD. always back up with another hard drive, or use mirror 1 set up on your 2tb HD set up. In my case if you have a 2tb hard drive raided 0, format it to RAID 1. to have more back up capabilities. But you'll get half the memory space on your 2 hard drives capacity.
-If an expert says you got a slim chance, don't be demoralized coz u still got a chance.
-If a raid 0 formatted hard drives got problems ask someone who's expert on comp. first. Before doing something about it. You don't want to destroy the RAID 0 structure on your hard drive, meaning 2 hard drives are working as one.
-Think positive, you'll need it.
- It's not entirely your fault, there are always some technical problems with these new techs now adays!
U can message me if you have any questions regarding the steps I made on this particular problem.
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