I had a drive go bad a few years ago and was able to retrieve some data. Ended up with a bunch of files named into numbers, so I don't know the titles. But they were from my Boybatter.com collection.
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I had a drive go bad a few years ago and was able to retrieve some data. Ended up with a bunch of files named into numbers, so I don't know the titles. But they were from my Boybatter.com collection.
Sorry that happened to you.
You could check out the Reddit "Datarecovery" sub to search for that question about general "adult content" (not even gay-specific), or if not finding anything post your question there (even with a "burner" Reddit account):https://www.reddit.com/r/datarecovery/
I'm not sure if data recovery has improved in recent years, but about 7-8 years ago, I accidently dropped my external hard drive. I found a couple of recovery tools that I purchase and downloaded. Some of the tools found my drive, but none were able to help me recover. I then found a guy who performed data recovery, I let him know about what was on the drive and he was fine with it. He had the drive for about a month trying various things, but in the end he was also unsuccessful.
I can't image that there is anything new that isn't available to the general public that you could buy > download online that would help you recover what's on the drive. With that being said, half the fun > challenge of "restocking" your new hard drive is finding scenes you once had.
Good luck!
thanks...lesson learned.... i now have duplicates of what I have on separate external drives...and I'm now using SSD drives.
Yes, you may be alluding to this with the "general public" remark, but a whole roster of "data recovery" services/companies exist that are beyond software-level recovery tools and have a true clean room environment, physically maintain an inventory (or can get them) of replacement parts, and will disassemble the drive to determine what may have failed and attempt to repair it at the hardware level. For anything beyond file system (NTFS, etc.) corruption or reverting to RAW, these professional services can take a look and sometimes will do free quotes/estimates based on an initial look.
That said, everyone has their data loss horror stories and the "3-2-1" backup method is still best. To @TexasJake 's point, the cost per MB of SSD's is still not as low as conventional spinning drives, but getting better all the time. Something like, say, the Samsung T5 EVO's come up to 8 TB in size options and are frequently on promotion a few times a year. NVMe drives (and conventional internal SSD's) can also be put in external enclosures for them. One will benefit from improved access speeds but also a certain amount of durability.
Just remember the rule that "One copy of anything is not a backup". Some people buy an external drive and think "Great! Now I have an external backup drive!" but move their ONLY copy of something to it, using it as a storage dump. Buying another drive (preferably another make/model) and regularly imaging to that backup drive is one solution some people do.
I abuse an old Google photos promotion with an old Google pixel phone which allows me back up an unlimited amount of photos/videos on their servers I've had this account for almost 10 years and now I have almost 5 tb of videos and photos on this account (99% percent of them are videos cause pictures don't do much for me)
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I lost most of my stuff in 2020, you can imagine how upset I was lol since then, 160,000~ pics and 10,000 vids. I consider porn collecting a hobby
I did a similar thing a few years ago when uploading videos (and allowing Google to re-compress them) was completely free. I uploaded almost 10T+ of videos to Google Drive, now although they are technically still downloadable, but Google Drive's built-in video player wouldn't let me play the videos directly (without having to download them onto my hard drive first). This doesn't happen to all the files, but is certainly happening to most of them. Just wondering if you're experiencing something similar as well?
The error I get is this:
Mostly torrents, and some forums like intporn.
I bought my new 5TB external drive - to go with my 4TB.
I'm re-editing the content now. Copying files back together to make sure it's in order. From BelAmi to CorbinFisher, Staxus to CzechHunter. Plus selected studios. Plus fansites. Oh, I'll have a few weeks to work on it.
My CorbinFisher real cumswallowing scenes collection: Art Nekszus (list only, no pictures)
I'm re-editing the content now. Copying files back together to make sure it's in order. From BelAmi to CorbinFisher, Staxus to CzechHunter. Plus selected studios. Plus fansites. Oh, I'll have a few weeks to work on it.
My CorbinFisher real cumswallowing scenes collection: Art Nekszus (list only, no pictures)
First, I downloaded, then deleted (if forgottable) or archived (if good quality).
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