Remember that crappy WD Passport 160GB that dropped about a foot and died on me completely? Well, you will be glad to know that the data within the drive has been almost completely recovered. 120GB of it, by a company I dealt with in the States: First Advantage Data Recovery to the tune of US$1,400! …
WD’s guts, originally uploaded by malyousif. So far a recovery program is reporting every single sector it comes across as bad. I didn’t believe that a little drop would affect a supposed “portable” drive that much… I have revised my estimation of this thing, it is a piece of crap.
Man I am pissed. I dropped my new WD Passport 160GB drive while I was getting out of the car this morning and now the bugger is buggered. I’ve got 120GB of data on it, mostly my original photographs going back years! It contains my whole library which I have deleted from my disks because …