Hope someone help.......

Basically all my work is saved onto ZIP Discs so i dont clog up my hardrive.

Ive just gone to import an image off the disc and noticed it was going very slow and taking forever Now all my work over the years has gone off this ONE Disc

Ive closed the computer down and re-booted it & all the other Zip Discs works , just not this one. Its very important that someone could help me, cause if ive lost this ive lost all the design work of customers such as..........

MSD
NMS
A1 Rally Sport
JC Motorsport
Adrenaline
Pro Alloy
Raceline/Compomotive
Jam Sport
Performance Ford

I need to know whats happened as ive got to sticker up PF Nicks car for National Day and logo's i already have, have gone

HELP

 

Sounds like its the drive itself thats died Paul, the data on the disc will more than likely be fine - Data recovery programs will be able to recover the data if you use a working drive.

Do other discs work or are they all showing blank aswell?

 

its not your week paul is it mind you they say things come in 3's

 

Hmmm..... if all the other disks work then it's unlikely to be the drive, but try another drive anyway if you can, just to see if it's any better. I have had CD drives, for instance, where the drive reads most things fine but some it won't. Use another drive on the same disc and it's perfect. Hopefully this could work for you.

Can the drive see that the disk is there and that there's something on it? If so, might be possible to copy the disk as a whole onto your HD, but this really does depend on how well it can read it.

Not sure what else to suggest though Paul, as I don't know a great deal about zip disks specifically. Maybe Jim Galbally will know something more......

Good luck with it mate.

 

Paul all other Zip Discs are working Fine, just the one with all the MOST important stuff on

 

Sticky, what make are the disks?

 

Paul, if you get stuck fella with some artwork I have some here I can mail to you for the time being.

As for the disk Jim Galbally is the best man to speak to - a true PC geek!!

Chris

 

Does it just click over and over again?

 

fookin hate computers

good luck mate,hope you sort it out-

i hope the jj performance stuff wasnt on it LOL!

 

D'oh Worth trying another drive just to see if you can recover the data

 

Cheers Chris, you have have a email very soon matey

No its not clicking mate, if it was clicking id have lost everything on the disc, its the fact i can see the title of the image and the file size still but no image is displaying at the side.

Jay - The Zip Disc's are PC100 iomega mate

 

Try another drive? Is it an external or internal drive?

 

External mate.

 

Right, I was hopinh you'd say Iomega!

Try this:

http://www.jufsoft.com/badcopy/zip_recovery.asp

You can download a free trial version of the recovery software. Let us know how you get on Sticky and good luck pal!

 

Ive just downloaded it jay and tryed 3 of the files that are not really important on the disc & its says recovered then 100% loss

 

 

Paul, sometimes Iomega can recover data if you send the disk back to them. Give them a ring.

 

Really??? I'll give them a try....Thanks Lynne.

Chris you have PM mate

 

Paul, you could also try Acronis Disk Doctor. I will PM you on how to get it.

 

Chris has come to the rescue on some logo's

Cheers matey

 

Shit news about the drive Paul


I have sent some logos to your Yahoo account, I don't know how much use they'll be but they were all I could get my hands on.

I'm waiting on a couple more which will be on the way to you very soon

Cheers mate

 

I'll go check now Nick.

Chris is good enough to be sending me few logo's tonight, ive spent the morning re-doing the Compomotive, Pram Sport logo etc.

Dont worry we'll have the car done for National Day. Ive promised you it will be done & i'll keep the promise.

 

You're a top man, I owe you lots of beer

 

Oh dear Paul
And after you came all the way to mine to use and abuse my bean tin

Have asked Dingo about it:
Linsay says:
can you recover files from a wiped zip
Linsay says:
disc
ding says:
depends
ding says:
if its had a full format its hard
ding says:
if a quick format or delete then its possible
ding says:
quick format and delete removes file table information with out removing the file
ding says:
the file would still be there unless the space has been over written
ding says:
when files are removed from the file table they are marked so they can be over written and don't appear to be on the disc
ding says:
if disc is old or used for backup then it could be fucked if its not been used in ages
ding says:
cause they age
ding says:
badly too
ding says:
can recover items though if its not been used, but you will need to use a recovery program
ding says:
i can try and do it, depends how quick he needs the information i guess
ding says:
its usually about Ł100 to recover a zip disc
ding says:
if you take it to a professional recovery place

 

Its worth Ł100 to recover them......Tell Steven thank you.

 

Paul, I've got some pics of the car finally.

What do you need? Full side, front and a rear?

Let me know and I'll get them over ASAP.

 

All of them please matey......

I got some pics of Lins car last night, but a couple came out blared

Could do with the PF logo as an ESP & Primary Desugn when you get it mate Oh and jamies Logo. The JPEGS wont work for some reason

 

You should have pics and logos in your inbox right about now Paul

 

Coolio

 

Hope you get it all sorted Sticky, sorry I couldn't help more.

 

You done more than enough Jay

Think the damage has been done...i'll just wait for these last logo's off Chris tonight and then were good to go with finishing the design off.

 

Cheers matey.

Just remember to make a second backup on DVD of ALL your stuff and keep it in a safe place in future!

 

im of the same opinion as everyone else, the disk is knackered

i'd reccomend you try and find a professional data recovery outfit, it'#s likely that they will be able to recover the data, the technology they use is very very cool, and can get back just about anything.

be warned, it won't be cheap tho, most charge up to 1k for a hard drive, so i image you'd be looking at the 100-500 mark for a zip disk

Jim

 

Cheers Jim & everyone else

But BIG Thanks has to go to Chris who's sent me the logo's through that i need to get this job finished.

I owe you a big favour Chris

 

no problem matey anytime

 

Superstar mate

Just need the Primary Design logo and its all done.

 

If you still need to recover your files I use Ontrack EasyRecovery Professional at work and it's great program it's saved a few peoples bums in the past.

I'd forward you the program but unfortunatly im not allowed due to the licence but I know you can find it on the torrent sites.

Only one problem is it won't run on windows 2003 server.

Good Luck