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[loana0320]

ok as some of you know.. my 3 month old laptop decided to give out yesterday.. I took it to toshiba repair center today and I just got a call a fwe mins ago saying that the hard drive is dead there fore I just lost the sessions I had there including the newborn I posted yesterday... anyhow I am done crying and plan to have some alcohol tonight to feel better in the mean time... my hubby built me a new computer which started running Sunday night.. so last night after he worked trying to get laptop he gave out and got cs4 on my new desktop and bridge.. now I used to have the crop set up in raw to be proprtioned but I cannot remember the number ratios.. can u please help?
Thanks in advance!

[Patti Edens]

Don't give up on that hard drive. There are places out there that can work miracles with recovering data from dead hard drives. I'm sure some folks on here can recommend some.

I'm not sure I understand your ratio request. I use 2 x 3, 3 x 2 (same as 4 x 6 and 6 x 4), 5 x 7, 7 x 5, 8 x 10 and 10 x 8. I don't usually need anything but those.

[loana0320]

Thanks Patti... unfortunalety the sessions I had done are all freebies.. so if I want to recover I will be out of pocket a lot of money :(
I am reshoting the newborn session on Saturday am... the ones of my family I guess I am kissing good bye :(
yeah I use those crops on cs but I used to use a diff ratio on raw.. I may be breain dead right now.. I will come back to this I have to dosome reasearch not sure what is called lol
Thanks for trying girly!!!!! (((hugs)))

[sniperkittie]

Have them return the old drive when they repair the computer.

If you hubby can build one he should be able to manage recovery with a little reading. Nothing ventured, nothing gained.

An individual can install the drive in an existing machine and can sometimes get a lot of info from the drive if it will spin up. You will need a 2.5" to 3.5" drive adapter to cable the drive into a desktop.

Recovery shops pull the platters and work from there in a clean room and are far more likely to recover some data. But in your case you have already given up on that idea. Tell hubby to go for it.

Or you may be able to recover your photos at a later date.

[loana0320]

can they still give me the harddrive?

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Originally Posted by loana0320

can they still give me the harddrive?

You can ask, but once you turn in your hard drive, they often ship it off to Never-never Land.

[mikebrown]

do you remember if you could hear the hard drive spinning, or did it sound like a marble in a coffee can. Hopefully the shop hasn't sent the Hard drive back. If you can get it back you should be able to get and estimate on data recovery.

[loana0320]

no sound at all.. nada... hubby pluged in in his pc, and my pc and nothing would come up.... no sign of life what so ever!