philter

thank's for all the heads up with this project. I'll be submitting the other two shortly (with their flaws *sigh*). i'm getting ideas in my head as to how to fix things but i won't be able to up it up until i have some time dedicated to me. As is life...

As a side note, good data recovery software can function without knowing the filesystem beforehand - they can deep scan the drive, reading raw bits and bytes, and then guess the filesystem in order to reassemble things back.

Philter - I forgot to mention that you could check with hard drive manufacturers as well. I don't know about western digital, but I know that Seagate does have data recovery services. I suppose the people who make hard drives would know best about all the tricks for recovering data from them.

on the western digital/manufacturer note, its like what Candia said and my drive is way past warrenty.

now for the data recovery software thing, i just have so many questions or just dont know where to start. it passed the quick test on the diagnostic tool from WD, so does that mean theres a little bit of a spark left and i could try to use software to recover some stuff? my co-worker wants to take a look at it and use some of his software to try to recover some data but he doesnt know if it will work because its for systems recovery or something like that. Should i let him take a stab at it? oh yeah and he's a Mac guy (no offense to any mac users on here and power to you guys if you do, but he just goes on about how much better it is than PCs sometimes... blah) and hes going to try to see if his mac could help. The statement about the file systems above makes me think his mac won't do much if anything. He does have a PC though cuz his course of study and career path require working on PCs (which i dont get why hes still a mac fan if hes in front of PCs all the time... sorry... another issue... another time)i dont even know if i'm making any sense. I just got off my shift at work. Thank you all for your input btw... its very helpful for me.

the drive is pretty old since it has no power switch of any kind and does not turn off when the computer shuts down like my other one. I did leave it on all the time though but the heat generated from staying on all the time might have added to the damage. blah i think i made it worse when i forgot to disconnect the drive when restarting and when the computer was booting, it lagged a little on the loading the login screen. thats when the drive became inaccessible. prior to that the drive was still able to show some folders.

you know i thought your avvy was a picture of batsu. The Opening theme for Rival Schools is still awesome. blah... I know i could write more about it but my attention is divided everywhere right now.

It's dead. And if you do manage to get the folders to appear, they'll never transfer, it'll only seem like it's doing it and then 10 hours later, it'll be like FAILED.

Its not my intention to be mean but it did make me chuckle a little when i read this. My condolences to you and your drive. I guess all i can do is laugh about it and not dwell on it so much.

I did get back on the horse, so to speak. I'm trying to finish up a simple animation for my myspace (yeah i know... myspace *eyes roll*). Its keeping my attention so far. But then i go looking for things that i collected that i could use and i remember jade died.

*sigh* i'm going to research this recovery thing later and see if its even possible. I'll tell you what i find and if it works.

I really was proud of my haruhi t-shirt... i was going to make a wallpaper from it even though it was a very basic design.

lol yeah i do but i was just skimming over everyones comments. |(C_C)|

Yeah i want the Cavs to win but they need to be able to take on san antonios "Big 3."

Sigh... i'm only on volume 10. I've got ways to go. I'm not much of a reader but Fruits Basket really seems to hold my attention for long periods of time. I hope they make a follow up anime series someday.

I'm not a big fan of RPGs but my favorite is Chrono Cross. It also has a great soundtrack.

No Hitomi love?

her moves are pretty predictable but i strive to become a formidable hitomi user. For Helena's DOA4 ending i was almost brought to tears but then after the credits i was like wtf cuz it ruined the moment.

story-wise, Ayane is my favorite.

I get creative impulses every now and then. I guess i dont have much confidence in my abilities sometimes though so i posted pictures up to see if im doing alright... at any rate, i did put all of those logos on the shirt myself. I might try my hand in screen printing if i could find a way to do it or I might switch to vinyl cuz my cousin told me he heard thats out now. The haruhi ism on the back is supposed to be small and in the bottom corner. Its out of the way and not the main focus of the t-shirt... its there to pretty much brand my butt saying "im a haruhi ism victim."

I'm debating if im going to wear it again to AX at the end of the month or make a new one.

For me, XBL is the best part of the console.

well, second best part. Custom soundtracks is my favorite part of it actually. my tag is philterillusion. microsoft is slowly chipping away at my wallet with these microtransactions though...