A few weeks ago, my two-year-old MacBook blew a gasket when I tried to update the OS to Snow Leopard. This included the dreaded blue screen of death, and the realization that thousands of photos were in danger of disappearing into thin air.
So what do you do when your hard drive craps out on you? Other than cursing and/or feeling stupid for not backing up your data, you go on to Twitter to see if anyone can help you.
In my case, I was lucky that Gary Hilson saw my tweet. Gary used to do some public relations work with CBL Data Recovery Technologies so he pinged their CEO Bill Margeson to see if there was anything they could do. Within minutes, Bill sent me an e-mail offering to if CBL’s labs could come to the rescue.
When the package from CBL arrived via courier today, I opened the box like it was Christmas, and plugged the enclosed external hard drive into my MacBook Pro. To discover that all the data had been recovered was, in fact, like getting an early Christmas present.
A few lessons learned:
1. Back up your data on a regular basis
2. If your hard drive does get compromised or damaged, sent it to CBL Data Recovery.
Hi Mark … glad it all came together for you. Yup, Gary used to work for me and I am glad he was able to put you in touch with Bill. CBL are top notch when it comes to data recovery. The company is a client of ours. Take care
I am going through the same thing right now, where my WD MyBook NAS drive crashed, leaving me up the proverbial estuary with almost 400 gig of photographic material at risk.
Ironically, the drive crashed as I was on a business trip having just decided to go to a RAID 1 system of data backup (but hadn't gotten around to doing so).
So far CBL Australia have been great and extremely pro-active. Fingers crossed that the majority of my material gets recovered.