Lightroom HELP please! - HD failure

[Iguanasan]

Sorry, I don't have anything to add about Lightroom other than you might consider contacting Adobe assuming you purchased the software. They might provide some support.

As for the external drive. Not sure how it may or may not work as an external drive but if you can get it out of the case and mount it internally to a computer and run SpinRite on it (from **Home of Gibson Research Corporation** ) there's a better than even chance you can recover the drive long enough to move your LR organized files to other media. The "click of death" was actually associated with Iomega Zip Drives and that kind of behaviour in a regular hard drive usually indicates bad sectors that it cannot read - possibly in the boot sectors. SpinRite can usually correct these issues. Steve Gibson promises your money back if it doesn't work.

[Marko]

Thx iggy - I may give it a try...

[Gremlich]

There are companies that will recover the data for you, but it can cost mucho dinero. Clean room work. Professional Data Recovery in Montreal.

this was on their website: "Hard drive crash: Failed hard drive. The symptoms of hard disk crash: computer will not boot, blue or black screen, clicking noise from the drive, rebooting, restarting, or freezing of system. "

[asnow]

Marko, how did you make out recovering your data
A podcast suggestion - tips on backing up your pictures/data and what you have learned from this experience.

[Marko]

thx a snow - I'm just manually adding everything back slowly.... i just got a new computer and there were plenty of older digital that never made it to the first catalogue.... so now I'm just adding everything into a fresh catalogue. The catalogue is the gold here for me and i can't friggen believe that I let this happen - i feel like a major bonehead....but not so big a bonehead that I lost any images. Only time.

and yup a podcast on this would be a great idea. i have some serious suggestions based on the error of my ways.

Thx! m