or where the hell have i been? let’s see…
I’ve been editing my trip photos, which should be appearing any day now. In the midst of transferring my files from the old G5 to the new Macbook, I seemed to have botched the job and my entire back-catalog of photos seems to have gotten munched on a Maxtor One Touch drive that went down, about a week ago. I had a vault back-up which was on the drive as well (I had the files and the vault on the same disk temporarily until I could transfer the files to a new hard drive). Big mistake. And I’ve been trying, with little success, to get the drive up and running again or at the least to retrieve the files. The head doesn’t seem to have crashed but the disk won’t mount and Disk Utility and Disk Warrior are useless. Through trial and error I found a way to view the files and to even copy a few off the disk and even though the Finder says they’re alright, they aren’t, when I load them in an app, all i got is crap. It’s been a ton of ups and downs and basically I’m to the point now where I’m about to swallow my techie pride and run the drive off to Drive Savers (that’s the silent sound of my bank account getting noticeable slimmer). To add salt to insult, the same thing happened to my pops about 6 months ago with his Lacie Porsche drive. I opened both drives up, today, during troubleshooting and it turns out both drives are Maxtor. Thank you Maxtor.
Word of hindsight wisdom: Kids, don’t skimp on back-up drives. and don’t try to put 80 gigs of photos into Aperture at one time. not good.
On the flip side, I’m 90% done with a much needed graphical overhaul of this site and it should be good to go in a few days or so, if all goes well. and I have a great surf/music adventure I’ve been working on and I’ll post that in a short while.
so stay tuned.
I was just about to ask you how often/common if at all drives crash in macs. i hate hdds crashing al the time and yes, maxtors sux, lacie’s kinda rule so far.