anyone else ever lost a lot of data off a hard drive

a couple of years ago my external hard drive malfunctioned, it had thousands of pictures and music on it and other precious data, i took it to the local computer shop in 2020, they managed to do data recovery and copy the recovered data to another external drive....but ive just procrastinated since then and not collected the hard drive....so bottom line is; ive lost all that data....because the shop won't do data recovery for me again....so i feel upset and gutted.

has anyone else here ever lost a lot of data, pictures music etc?

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twiigss · M

On an older computer that still used IDE hard drives, I had a couple of Maxtor hard drives. Anyway I was doing some maintenance on the computer and decided to unplug all power and data connection to the drives.

So when I was all finished, I plugged the hard drives back in and turned the computer back on. My hard drive with all the maps I had just created for Doom, not available. I checked and the hard drive that had all of my games on it, wasn't showing up.

Turns out, I plugged in the data connection and forgot to plug the power back in for the hard drive. So I turned the computer off, plugged in the 4 pin Molex connector to the back of the hard drive, turned the computer back on, the hard drive would no longer show up in windows.

The weird thing is, the BIOS would see the hard drive was there, but not windows. I still have the drive, but yea, I lost a ton of amazing stuff. That Doom map I had made for the first Doom game, can never be redone. It was a one of a kind map.