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Well, Sunday afternoon I am sitting and running through installing my Bootcamp'd Win7 when I hear a crash and a skid in the kitchen. My cat decided to play "knock the crap off the counter game" and my external 1TB hard drive I use for iTunes and Time Machine is laying on the floor with a cracked case. Now, I know I should not have just left it out, but it had been there all morning and the cat had full food bowl and water bowl.
Anyway, I go and check the drive, push the case back together and give it a quick shake and listen. Nothing sounded wrong and there was no rattling. I plug it in and it comes up in the Finder and I can browse and whatnot. I leave it in to see what happens.
About an hour later, Time Machine kicks off and within about 5 minutes the drive disappears from the Finder and Time Machine reports it has failed because the drive has been pulled from the PC without being properly dismounted. Wait, what? It is still plugged in and spinning.
So, I unplug the drive and try plugging it back in: nothing. It doesn't come back up until I reboot. I run the Disk Utility and Verify and Restore and it seems to work again. For a few minutes.
Now, Last week I had to copy all the iTunes (400g) from this same drive onto my MBP HD in order to reformat it to be useable by the MBP. I had since deleted and emptied my Trash since then.
Is there a chance the iTunes media can be recovered even after emptying the Trash?
I am really dreading that I will have to send this hard drive to be recovered at way to costly a price, but there is too much on it I need and own. 8 years of iTunes songs, movies, apps, everything.
Anyway, I go and check the drive, push the case back together and give it a quick shake and listen. Nothing sounded wrong and there was no rattling. I plug it in and it comes up in the Finder and I can browse and whatnot. I leave it in to see what happens.
About an hour later, Time Machine kicks off and within about 5 minutes the drive disappears from the Finder and Time Machine reports it has failed because the drive has been pulled from the PC without being properly dismounted. Wait, what? It is still plugged in and spinning.
So, I unplug the drive and try plugging it back in: nothing. It doesn't come back up until I reboot. I run the Disk Utility and Verify and Restore and it seems to work again. For a few minutes.
Now, Last week I had to copy all the iTunes (400g) from this same drive onto my MBP HD in order to reformat it to be useable by the MBP. I had since deleted and emptied my Trash since then.
Is there a chance the iTunes media can be recovered even after emptying the Trash?
I am really dreading that I will have to send this hard drive to be recovered at way to costly a price, but there is too much on it I need and own. 8 years of iTunes songs, movies, apps, everything.