The matter about platter utility and recuperation applications is that they detain hidden until you really need them . Sometimes , they stay hidden for so long , you do n’t even know where they are . But when a position come up that leave you with potential information loss , these utility program become your good friend .
I had this precise situation happen to me last calendar month . I wanted to set up iLife ’ 06 during Macworld Expo , but I did n’t have enough room on my PowerBook hard driveway . That meant I needed to lose some file , even though there was nothing I wanted to permanently delete .
The root : move some of my biggest folders to myiPod — a passably simple function . The matter that I had n’t counted on was that the iPod ’s surd drive would become corrupted , hold my 5,000 photograph surety .
The parkway corruption was probably my fault . After copying my exposure , I just draw the FireWire nag from the PowerBook without ejecting the disk first . I know you should eject the disk first — there is even a warning that tells you to do that . But I was excited and I ’ve done it a hundred time before . Really , what could perhaps go wrong ?
When I got to Los Angeles to assist NAMM , I hear exactly what could go incorrect . I could n’t access any of the data on my iPod . I did n’t really like about the medicine on the iPod — I have backups of the birdsong . I just wanted my picture back .
I had two pick : start the iPod Update and wipe out the drive ( not a very sympathetic choice ) , or wait until I got home and run a utility on the disk and as if by magic get back my characterization . I opted to look .
The first affair I did upon my homecoming home was runDisk Warrior — the champion of champions when it comes to phonograph record repair . In a couple of minutes , the utility reported that the disc was sterilize , so I mounted the drive and tried to download my motion picture . No luck . I ran Disk Warrior again , and this metre it articulate the disk was not repairable . My picture were still surety , but not for recollective . I turned toData Rescue IIand hoped that it would give me back my pictures .
I ran the applications programme and it showed me the folder construction including my painting . I sink in the checkbox and told Data Rescue to rescue them to my grueling ride . When it finished download , I launch iPhoto and there were all of my pictures .
I had to wait a little more than a workweek to know if I was going to be able to get my pictures back , which was excruciating for me . From now on , whenever I move around , Data Rescue will be along with me on a platter that go in my baggage .
