Request: Quick and Witty Comeback By Barron Cruz

Hi,

I hope you're doing good and probably awaiting Christmas and New Year.

Could you please share Quick and Witty Comeback By Barron Cruz

Course Link:
_https://www.charismamatrix.com/home-1/#courses

Although there are few resellers on reddit, I couldn't find any free or premium link to download.

Warm Regards

PS: Thanks anon for sharing files for previous requests.

I'll look into it, but I'm currently dealing with a faulty hard drive and potentially large data loss :( So it'll have to wait...

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Originally Posted by anon

I'll look into it, but I'm currently dealing with a faulty hard drive and potentially large data loss :( So it'll have to wait...

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Originally Posted by shaina

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Given the symptoms, I thought it could simply be a faulty SATA-to-USB adapter, in which case I'd be able to recover all data by connecting the disk directly to a computer. But I was wrong... cross-posting this from another forum.

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Update: took it to a professional data recovery firm. They gave me a free quote and reported that the "read/write head is damaged [with] possible damage on platter surfaces". Worrying, but they say there's a good chance of success. I had to give a $100 advance on the full price of almost $500, but they say they'll refund everything if they can't recover the data or I'm somehow not satisfied with the service. Around two hours ago, the ticket status changed from "awaiting advance" to "in progress"... we'll see.

Whatever the outcome, learn from my mistake, all of you. I had spare storage for duplicating backups, I just got lazy. To my credit, the disk failed all of a sudden with no previous warning signs, after four years of ownership and around one and a half years of usage (power-on hours). This makes me wonder, what is a reliable form of keeping backups if an external drive isn't, online storage isn't, you have some 1700 GB of data and can't afford stuff like RAID or multi-bay NAS? :dabs:

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All I can do is wait for good news now. Anyway, I'll look for the file during the weekend.

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Originally Posted by anon

Given the symptoms, I thought it could simply be a faulty SATA-to-USB adapter, in which case I'd be able to recover all data by connecting the disk directly to a computer. But I was wrong... cross-posting this from another forum.

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Update: took it to a professional data recovery firm. They gave me a free quote and reported that the "read/write head is damaged [with] possible damage on platter surfaces". Worrying, but they say there's a good chance of success. I had to give a $100 advance on the full price of almost $500, but they say they'll refund everything if they can't recover the data or I'm somehow not satisfied with the service. Around two hours ago, the ticket status changed from "awaiting advance" to "in progress"... we'll see.

Whatever the outcome, learn from my mistake, all of you. I had spare storage for duplicating backups, I just got lazy. To my credit, the disk failed all of a sudden with no previous warning signs, after four years of ownership and around one and a half years of usage (power-on hours). This makes me wonder, what is a reliable form of keeping backups if an external drive isn't, online storage isn't, you have some 1700 GB of data and can't afford stuff like RAID or multi-bay NAS? :dabs:

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All I can do is wait for good news now. Anyway, I'll look for the file during the weekend.

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I am reading that you tried direct connection to a PC to recover??

My luck most of the time Anon is to use a PC sata external case to USB and yes to another PC as well, and i have been pretty lucky on recovering stuff that way...

Now i know you are way more Tec Savvy then i am, and if you were not successful doing the recovery yourself, it was a really bad situation buddy...

Now i am not asking personal stuff here, but was it stuff that couldn't be replaced?? Forget the pain in the ass to find everything that was on the drive??

But i try to look at the positives of things :), half the shit i have on drives really did i need in the first place:idunno:, again i don't know if it was stuff that just can't be replaced???

It that is the situation buddy, i am really really sorry to hear....

The next question.....

Were they good quality drives?? EG. did you ever thinking of moving the real important stuff to a solid state drive?? Are they not more reliable today??

Again i am really sorry buddy for your bad situation, and wish you luck on getting back the info on the drive :hug:..

PS. Really thinking about everything i just typed, figuring you are willing to spend large cash to recover what was on that drive, it must be some really good porn:P

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Originally Posted by anon

I'll look into it, but I'm currently dealing with a faulty hard drive and potentially large data loss :( So it'll have to wait...

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Thanks anon. I'm sorry to hear that, I also had experienced this when someone pickpocketed my phone & lost snapshots of 3 years of my colourful memories as I postponed backup. Hoping for the recovery.

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Originally Posted by shaina

I am reading that you tried direct connection to a PC to recover??

My luck most of the time Anon is to use a PC sata external case to USB and yes to another PC as well, and i have been pretty lucky on recovering stuff that way...

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Yes, that was the first thing I tried. When I saw it wasn't any better and the click of death continued, it became clear I wouldn't be able to fix this on my own so I stopped. Then I searched for data recovery companies in my area and had a small heart attack when I saw their price charts, but hey, life's hard when you're a VIP (Very Important Poor).

As for the data, it is/was around 1715 GB in total, only a small fraction of it porn :P The rest is personal files, pictures, work and school stuff, e-mail and backups going all the way back to 2002. I don't even have a directory or checksum listing so I can't know exactly what I lost, only that it is... a lot. Some of it had a local copy on my computers, but not everything.

The disk was a Seagate Expansion Portable USB 3.0, 4 TB. I bought it for its large capacity, thinking it would be enough for a very long time, and until just a few days ago, I considered Seagate to be the most reliable brand since I'd never had any problem with their products, whereas the same couldn't be said of Western Digital and Toshiba. Obviously my conclusions were wrong.

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Originally Posted by Prolife

Thanks anon. I'm sorry to hear that, I also had experienced this when someone pickpocketed my phone & lost snapshots of 3 years of my colourful memories as I postponed backup. Hoping for the recovery.

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Thank you and sorry to hear that too. It seems some lessons just have to be learned the hard way. Even if I manage to recover 100% of my data, which backup solution could I trust in the future with the precedent of this sudden and complete failure? The only thing I can think of is deleting non-essentials and compressing rarely-used data, then duplicating everything in at least two smaller disks (which I do have) so that the odds are in my favor, and being similarly strict with myself regarding new files. We'll see...

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Originally Posted by anon

Yes, that was the first thing I tried. When I saw it wasn't any better and the click of death continued, it became clear I wouldn't be able to fix this on my own so I stopped. Then I searched for data recovery companies in my area and had a small heart attack when I saw their price charts, but hey, life's hard when you're a VIP (Very Important Poor).

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LOL very good LOL!!

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As for the data, it is/was around 1715 GB in total, only a small fraction of it porn :P The rest is personal files, pictures, work and school stuff, e-mail and backups going all the way back to 2002. I don't even have a directory or checksum listing so I can't know exactly what I lost, only that it is... a lot. Some of it had a local copy on my computers, but not everything.

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Some of that hopefully family and friends may have stored away somewhere too buddy, in case.

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The disk was a Seagate Expansion Portable USB 3.0, 4 TB. I bought it for its large capacity, thinking it would be enough for a very long time, and until just a few days ago, I considered Seagate to be the most reliable brand since I'd never had any problem with their products, whereas the same couldn't be said of Western Digital and Toshiba. Obviously my conclusions were wrong.

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So that goes to my question, are solid state drives better for longevity ?? even if you have to buy a few for storage (if there is a savings in cost to buy smaller storage ones), for really important stuff, or what we really think is important and gets filled up with crap fast (clearing my throat being one of those LOL!!), will they be more reliable, sitting around and not being used on a regular basis??

Again just thinking of cost as well when you speak of say Synergy/NAS vs a supposed faster more reliable piece of storage equipment??

Yes there will be a redundancy factor with Synergy/NAS (I hope i said that right, or you know what i mean:unsure:), and still having the cost of failure rates in drives vs , or putting the expense in Solid State Drives, and have them sit around and really have minimal use/access??..

That is an interesting thought/question. I am just thinking of your VIP comment LOL!!, and really what is the best of both worlds, cost and reliability right??

And now thinking how many boxes i went through of printed photos, to get rid of buddy :yikes:

Again i wish you luck and hope everything works out buddy...


Shay

I went through the same scenario three or four years ago. Was willing to pay the money, but they were ultimately not successful recovering the data. The drive is still sitting here in my office; not sure if I am secretly hoping for technology to improve and giving it another shot in another year or so... But then I am thinking, just like you I don't know what's really on that drive, but the fact that I have managed to not lose any sleep over this in the last few years probably means that the loss is not as significant as I originally made it out to be.

Still sucks, of course.

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Originally Posted by shaina

Some of that hopefully family and friends may have stored away somewhere too buddy, in case.

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Good luck getting family and friends to go through the trouble of finding/scanning, packaging and sending you old photo albums because "you lost your copy and would like to have them again". Sharing them on Facebook is not a problem, though :rolleyes:

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So that goes to my question, are solid state drives better for longevity ?? even if you have to buy a few for storage (if there is a savings in cost to buy smaller storage ones), for really important stuff, or what we really think is important and gets filled up with crap fast (clearing my throat being one of those LOL!!), will they be more reliable, sitting around and not being used on a regular basis??

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Solid drives are more reliable due to their lack of moving parts. There were some cases of "sudden death" caused by power failures, but I believe that's a non-issue now. However, given the amount of data I'm handling here, I don't want to imagine how much an SSD of matching capacity would cost. The same goes for RAID, multi-bay NAS, tape drives and other oft-recommended solutions.

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Originally Posted by Caballero

The drive is still sitting here in my office; not sure if I am secretly hoping for technology to improve and giving it another shot in another year or so...

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Well, that's what they did with the Watergate tapes.

Anyway, the data recovery company told me this yesterday (apparently their lab works weekends).

Good afternoon. We have successfully filed the service authorization. We will keep you updated of new events through this same medium [their customer service portal]. Regards. Laboratory analysis: technicians have determined the device has a physical failure. The read/write head has been damaged. Technician's notes: the recovery process is ongoing. The device is located in the laboratory, we are currently setting up the necessary equipment and spare parts to begin the job. Estimated completion date: December 24th, 2020

If it's just a damaged head, there are very good chances of a complete recovery. If said damaged head also damaged the platters, that's a more dire situation, but since the disk has already been taken to their lab and disassembled, I suppose they'd have told me so in that case.

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Technician's notes: I'm working on your case, going through the mirroring process. I have managed to access the device's data area, and am currently mirroring the original device sector by sector on a new disk. This is the most important part, as recovery results are directly dependent on the mirroring percentage. I'm dealing with difficulties due to the severity of the damage, which causes the procedure to advance very slowly. I have also had to skip highly damaged areas in order to mirror them last. Once the entire device has been mirrored, the structural rebuilding and exploration process will begin.

He was able to give a list of files and directories in the volume's root. I'm counting on that the "highly damaged areas" contain stuff I can just redownload.

By the way, I have looked for the request (Quick and Witty Comeback by Barron Cruz) but found nothing thus far. The homepage says it's a new course, so maybe no one's uploaded it yet; ThePlace.click may have it as they specialize on this stuff, but I'm not a member there.

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Originally Posted by anon

Update.

By the way, I have looked for the request (Quick and Witty Comeback by Barron Cruz) but found nothing thus far. The homepage says it's a new course, so maybe no one's uploaded it yet; ThePlace.click may have it as they specialize on this stuff, but I'm not a member there.

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Oh, heartbreaking! That's true it's a new course. It may take some more time to get this one. Hopefully sooner.

Today the ticket status changed from "in progress" to "slowly mirroring", but no other news so far.

Usual sources are dry; I'm currently searching eMule and asking people who have an account on certain private sites.

Did as I said above, turns out even the specialized private trackers don't have it. Looks like you'll need to wait until someone uploads it.

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Originally Posted by anon

Did as I said above, turns out even the specialized private trackers don't have it. Looks like you'll need to wait until someone uploads it.

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Well i couldn't find it either, which is very unusual:D

Yeah pretty hard to find. This one is my Christmas wish. I'm searching in every nook and corner, hope Santa�� would make it.
Merry Christmas to all in advance.

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Originally Posted by anon

Did as I said above, turns out even the specialized private trackers don't have it. Looks like you'll need to wait until someone uploads it.

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You're saying nobody has a Witty Comeback on the entire internet?

I Googled Barron Cruz. I'm pretty sure that a course from this life coach/huckster not being available is really just God protecting you from your own gullibility. Thanks, Lord.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsDf4vWBRcc

My solution to everything involving Barron would be to punch him in his annoying ginger face. To be fair, I'd probably like him better if he had another face and a completely different personality.

"Look at me...I asserted myself over a delivery driver's schedule and routine. You can cut ahead by threatening people trying to just do their job too!"

He would have cried like a bitch had 20 others pushed ahead like him at stops before his. "WHY ARE YOU SO LATE??!" People like, people like you...

Hello, do you have any update to this. Also looking for this

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Originally Posted by anon

Update.

Technician's notes: I'm working on your case, going through the mirroring process. I have managed to access the device's data area, and am currently mirroring the original device sector by sector on a new disk. This is the most important part, as recovery results are directly dependent on the mirroring percentage. I'm dealing with difficulties due to the severity of the damage, which causes the procedure to advance very slowly. I have also had to skip highly damaged areas in order to mirror them last. Once the entire device has been mirrored, the structural rebuilding and exploration process will begin.

He was able to give a list of files and directories in the volume's root. I'm counting on that the "highly damaged areas" contain stuff I can just redownload.

By the way, I have looked for the request (Quick and Witty Comeback by Barron Cruz) but found nothing thus far. The homepage says it's a new course, so maybe no one's uploaded it yet; ThePlace.click may have it as they specialize on this stuff, but I'm not a member there.

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I did another search, as it's been almost a year since this thread was created (when will I win the Sammy Gravano Award to the best moderator ever?). No results. If this has been uploaded somewhere, it wasn't in public or to any of the sources I've got access to. Plenty of links to buy it from, though ;)

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Originally Posted by anon

I did another search, as it's been almost a year since this thread was created (when will I win the Sammy Gravano Award to the best moderator ever?). No results. If this has been uploaded somewhere, it wasn't in public or to any of the sources I've got access to. Plenty of links to buy it from, though ;)

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Yes you'll have to settle for the love and recognition from people on this forum ;)

That's pretty crazy though, surely you have some good sources and still no luck even as a torrent. Makes me wonder how come people are selling/trading links to it on Reddit and the many reseller websites.

Maybe the demand is low

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Originally Posted by Jugithh

Yes you'll have to settle for the love and recognition from people on this forum ;)

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Aw, you're so sweet :blushing:

To be fair, this sort of content is too niche for general sources, and I'm not on any specialized ones.