I have limited power outlets available in my studio workspace, so I decided to move a backup drive into a 2-bay OWC enclosure that was sitting around empty. Last time I installed anything in one of those was years ago, and I was sleep deprived, so a big, dumb mistake happened: I forgot all about that teensy, barely readable dial on the back that specifies RAID 0, RAID 1, JBOD, etc. Unfortunately, it was on RAID 0 and needed to be on JBOD. I installed my 6TB backup drive and another drive, connected the enclosure, and got the dreaded "WTF is this drive? Do you want to ignore it or initialize it?" message.

Sigh. Of course returning the drive to its previous OWC enclosure resulted in the same message.

Luckily I have Data Rescue, although I had to install an update for it to work. It's been running for about 24 hours. The quick scan was in fact quick but it showed only the contents of the drive's smaller partition, which was where the OS was installed. Nothing from the partition with all the backups. I have other backups of some of the files, but no backups of all the files from MO disks I retrieved a while back, among other things. So I started the deep scan yesterday and it was still running until about an hour ago. It did turn up stuff from the partition where the backups lived, and indicates that it is in the process of recovering 1.2TB worth of stuff. Fingers crossed.

Data Rescue is one of those apps you almost never need, but when you do, you REALLY need it.

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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 05/18/2023 03:33PM by ka jowct.

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Data Rescue is one of those apps you almost never need, but when you do, you REALLY need it.

Had a similar instance as you several years back, I feel your pain. Your last sentence rings true!

I got an email that said Data Rescue was on sale for like $21 via Bundlehunt. I was about to buy it when I really read the description. Used to be you could use Data Rescue to recover any drive that went bad. The $22 price was unlimited file recovery... on ONE drive only. WTF? You have to pay like $400 for the version that will work on however many drives you need. You can still download it in demo mode to verify what, if any, files it can find. I figure I'll do that if/when I ever lose another drive.

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I got an email that said Data Rescue was on sale for like $21 via Bundlehunt. I was about to buy it when I really read the description. Used to be you could use Data Rescue to recover any drive that went bad. The $22 price was unlimited file recovery... on ONE drive only. WTF? You have to pay like $400 for the version that will work on however many drives you need. You can still download it in demo mode to verify what, if any, files it can find. I figure I'll do that if/when I ever lose another drive.

I must have paid for an upgrade at some point. I got v5 a couple years ago with a different bundle deal. Or maybe I have reached my Data Rescue limit. That's a crappy offer.

I also have Disk Drill, but didn't try it with this mess. Now copying a big bunch of recovered stuff back to the drive where it lived before, which I formatted and have installed in the dual-bay enclosure.

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.....I did a bad, bad......thing......

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I reject your reality and substitute my own!

Sigh. It looks like the majority of the files are damaged. Fortunately, many of them can be restored from elsewhere, but what a clusterfsck this has been.

The other option is to shell out for a repair tool.

File repair tool

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I've had a few heartbreaks over the last few years (unrecoverable level stuff) so I've got to the point where I am not jettisoning any actual hard copy prints or negs from now on. I'll continue my digital photos, as I've been on that format for 20 years now, but I'm keeping hard stuff and, in fact, I am going to return to shooting some film for things that I think will be useful to my grandkids and beyond (don't have grandkids, atm).

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Hurts like a bastid...

Losing stuff sucks. I did a willful stupid this past fortnight insofar as the cracked iPhone SE screen that about a week in stopped accepting touch input, which I attempted to swap in another iPhone SE screen but inadvertently ended up dislodging one or more of the grain of sand sized capacitors around the battery connectors preventing the battery from charging... or the phone from staying powered up long enough to allow me to sync stuff off. Now I'm looking at $80+ to get the caps replaced/resoldered from a place half an hour away that will do board level work.

Should have backed the phone up the moment the screen cracked rather than just assuming it would stay fine.

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