HDD Epic Fail!

You know how it is, you have bits of information (photo's, music, spreadsheets, films and so on) all over the place on your computer, external drives, DVDs and pen drives. So you think I know I will just buy a large external drive and move all the shit that's everywhere all onto it so everything is all safe in one place. So about 3 months ago I decided to do just that and bought myself a 1TB Verbatim external drive (with USB 3.0 even though I don't have anything with 3.0) and started to move everything on to it.

Early on Sunday morning I connected my HDD to my PS3 as there was an old film I wanted to watch, once I had finished I decided to reconnect my HDD to the PC and put some photos that had been taken over the previous 2 weeks on there; only I couldn't as upon connecting the drive to my PC it decided to show me that the drive had no folders on there.


Upon checking that the folders weren't being hidden as the properties clearly stated that 400gig was still in use I started scratching my head. I then started checking all the obvious things and even at one point plugged the drive back into the PS3 thinking that may fix the problem. (Dumbass mistake I know) Finally I downloaded all sorts of drive recovery programs and tried them one after the other only to find none of them worked. All the contents of the HDD were lost and I had no way of getting them back, so basically I have lost around 10 years of photo's, all the mp3's ripped from my Cd's that I can only replace if I spend about 3 weeks remaking (and even then I have to grab them from my dads loft) as well as many other things that I have worked on.

To say I was gutted is an understatement, maybe I should have just left everything all over the place instead of trying to find an easier storage solution and actually knowing where everything was. One thing that I have learnt though is that it doesn't matter what make of HDD you buy as technology will fuck you over every chance it gets and cause as much misery as possible.