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I did actually. Not sure what you are driving at but I feel I am exactly where you are telling me to be. I have the drive connected to my PC, (unfortunately SATA is not an option but I'm not in a hurry), i have loaded the recovery software and am currently recovering files. I skipped over the suggestions regarding jumpers and formatting pretty quick. I have really good filters about advice and tend to weed thru info pretty efficiently.

I suspect it's a bad sector at the front of the drive where all the important details are kept, essentially the "roadmap" to the drive. You would think you could simply reconstruct the map but that would be too easy wouldn't it. The good news is, it's likely all the data is intact and recoverable.
 
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As long as the data is there you are fine. The pagefile is what you are talking about and it may be corrupt. I don't know how or if you can reconstruct a pagefile but if you do some digging you will get your answer. Patience is a virtue though.
 
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The software found all the files so I dropped $70 to authorize it and am now happily recovering all of my movies to a temporary Seagate 1.5TB drive. I have another 2TB Western Digital NAS unit I had just set up for my wife's music and photos so I guess it will become the new movie storage drive.

My wife wants to invest in a true RAID NAS unit now but that's a pretty hefty price tag for anything bigger than 2TB. To get 2TB of backed up storage would require a 4TB unit and they start around $500 for a decent unit.
 
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Data recovery is officially at 100%. Thanks for everyone's advice. Hopefully I get to use the software a few more times before it gets outdated.

I picked up a pair of LaCie 2TB Thunderbolt drives yesterday. They don't have a NAS option but the price was right. Anybody know if these are any good? I was hoping to see Black caviar drives inside them but found Hitachi high speed units instead. Hopefully they each hold a business class drive and of a better quality than the Barracuda green unit that was in the seagate NAS unit.

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MADMAT

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Good deal man! I have gotten years and years of use out of my recovery software.

Just curious though....if you were hoping to see WD drives inside why not just buy WD drives?
 
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Well that was my thought exactly. I was going to see what was installed before I started using them and then upgrade as necessary. I believe the boards in these units are built to last so I won't mind investing in better drives for long term I just wasn't expecting Hitachi drives. I am not that familiar with them so I will have to do some further research to determine what quality they are and if they even need to be upgraded. I'd post the specs but I was in a hurry and didn't capture them properly.

Hindsight being what it is, I really regret damaging the case on the original Seagate unit. The base is perfect still and it has the NAS feature so all I really needed to do is purchase a new better hard drive and get it running again. Unfortunately I damaged it opening it up and had to throw it away. I guess it wasn't as disposable as I thought. Should be cheap enough to pick up a used housing off ebay.
 
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ThatGuy

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All hard drives will fail that is a sad but true fact. Usually when you have slacked on your backup routine... I have lost tons of time and data over the years. My opinion on long term storage is NAS running RAID 1 preferably with a unit that automatically shuts down if there is a issue with a drive. This allows you to repair or replace the damaged drive and move on with little inconvenience to your life. I suggest a 4 bay unit. They are not free but what is all of you family pictures, music and movies worth to you? Buy a nice case and populate it with only 2 drives that is what I did and then I upgraded to 4 drives when I needed the space and absorbed the original cost.
 
AtomicPunk

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All drives fail, but it seems I have had more Seagate drives fail (no matter the model) than any other.

You were lucky with the software, I have had several instances of it "seeing" the files but when recovering they were corrupt.

Lesson for everyone, ALWAYS keep your valuable "stuff" in two different places, preferably 3 (on your PC, NAS/backup #1 and backup #2). Go buy a decent external drive and USE it!
 
Matt_E

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Backup in the same physical location as the original data (i.e., your home) isn't a great idea. Fire, flood damage, theft - those events will get both the original and the backup.
There aren't any data on my computers that's 'invaluable', except for personal photography.
I have that on multiple HD's, some DVD's, and in a cloud backup that also serves as a very convenient central location for family to view my photography.
 
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MADMAT

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I have yet ANOTHER seagate hard drive I am trying to recover for a customer right now......it can not possibly coincidence that I always get them....for a over decade now!

Toshiba next worse IME.
 
MADMAT

MADMAT

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Whooooa! I just opened up this seagate external 2.5 to pull the drive out to start working on it...and its a Samsung inside..so either Samsung bought Seagate (kinda remember hearing that??) or Seagate doesn't even trust its own drives..lol....
 
MADMAT

MADMAT

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Well they just bought the lowest quality thing they now own IMO. samsung is kickin arse! Maybe they can change things now.
 
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