1TB lost. Suicide? An hero!!

I'll take it back to the shop I bought it and play angry demanding my data back. Except some game ISOs that are practically not illegal here, there's nothing that could get me in trouble so I don't care if they see or even copy anything...
It was a "Lacie", a French brand. I even had some rare ムック demos from 1996 :/

 

The external HD was also a Lacie -_-;
Was it the one designed by Porsche?

Lacie seems like qality :banghead:

 

LaCie eh? I know those are barely better than Matrox...

For me theres only 2 HDD brands: Western Digital and Hitachi.

The Hitachi ones are almost fail-proof...

 

My Uk home comp runs 2 500gig Westen Digital Sata drives. Nothing but grief.
My French Comp runs 2 500gig Hitachi Sata drives. Run hot but top notch.

 

Actually LaCie only does the Shell Casing and the USB parts, the HD inside of mine was actually a Western Digital. But I still blame LaCie, since the case is probably the reason for the fault of my HD. My normal Internal one is a Western Digital as well, and it runs flawless since 2 years.

 

Good luck with that. Most hard drive companies have a disclaimer on the box that says there is a guarantee on the drive but not the data you've stored on it - implying that unless it was a batch fault of drives then you haven't really got a legal leg to stand on apart from getting a new one free of charge - and even then only if the company has a long-term warranty.

 

Go to some of those places that restore HD's it might costs you an arm and half of the other arm but I think it'll be worth it.

 

Re: getting it recovered by a company:

If the drive is clicking, it's unlikely you'll be able to restore it using your own tools. That clicking noise is because the heads are unable to find the bit of data you are trying to read - and if that's the FAT then you're scuppered. You should have been using NTFS. You might be able to find a program that could rebuild the data location tables, I haven't checked.

If you can't read from the drive at all or it sounds more 'scrapy' than 'clicky', the only real solution is to have it professionally restored, but I must warn you they are stupidly expensive (we're talking thousands for a drive that size) and unless there's stuff on there that you cannot find again then I wouldn't bother. Take the drive back and get a new one and try to backup data you want in future. Chalk it up as a stupid mistake and move on.