Gah! Hard drive is toast

[LearningTOfly 0]

My hard drive bit the dust the other day... since then I had it replaced under warranty, but the computer doctor says that he can't salvage a thing from the old one. Argh, how that's frustrating... the pictures and videos (all skydiving and flying, of course) and other irreplacable files are gone forever- and I was just planning to back them up, too. Bah... pout.

[KCJumper 0]

I have gone through 3 hard drives in the past 2 months. Now my mother board it fried. Definitly know the feeling on loosing all those videos. Good luck on getting back up and running.

Patrick

[swedishcelt 0]

Mine sounds like a diesel engine when it starts. That can't be good.

[GTAVercetti 0]

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My hard drive bit the dust the other day... since then I had it replaced under warranty, but the computer doctor says that he can't salvage a thing from the old one. Argh, how that's frustrating... the pictures and videos (all skydiving and flying, of course) and other irreplacable files are gone forever- and I was just planning to back them up, too. Bah... pout.

I know this cannot help now, but...

Next time grab a USB portable drive. You can get a 250 GB for around $260 dollars. The Maxtor one has one button backup, but with any you can basically copy your whole hardrive onto the secondary and then take it where ever you want. Portables are the way to go.

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[highfly 0]

I had an external 250gb drive full to the hilt with my wedding vid and honeymoon, 60gb of tunes, music videos that I was working on and it got knocked over by a good friend. The drive stopped spinning and never worked again.
Now I back up 1nce a week to dvd. I cant afford to lose all the good stuff again.
Now I just use smaller drives. 120gb is my largets and 40gb smallest. I have 500 gb spread across 4 drives now. Back up your backup

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[Kris 0]

Sorry to hear about that...losing data sucks.

*hugging my RAID-5*

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[bisqit999 0]

may sound strange but put the old HD in the freezer for like a half hour then try to use it. My friend did that and had just enough time to get some stuff off it that he needed. Might be worth a try. Otherwise....sorry to hear of your loss.

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I had an external 250gb drive full to the hilt with my wedding vid and honeymoon, 60gb of tunes, music videos that I was working on and it got knocked over by a good friend. The drive stopped spinning and never worked again.
Now I back up 1nce a week to dvd. I cant afford to lose all the good stuff again.
Now I just use smaller drives. 120gb is my largets and 40gb smallest. I have 500 gb spread across 4 drives now. Back up your backup

That certainly can happen and backups of backups are recommended. However, your friend could have knocked over your computer and done the same thing. I keep my drives away from any place they can be knocked over. I am not sure how a larger capacity drive equates to your problem though.

Why yes, my license number is a palindrome. Thank you for noticing.

[flyingferret 0]

I hear you Chris

For those not running RAID, think about it, most new mobos support SATA RAID. And if you don't do that, do this:

One HD for your system, you don't need more than 40GB. Use if for your O/S and all programs. Make a 10GB partition on the same drive and use it for you page and swap files. You can config windows to put them wherever you want.

One HD for 'media'....video, pics, music, etc. All the big stuff. I would say at least a 120GB.

Second HD, same as above, and regular make a copy, or a ghost of your media drive.

On Top of that, backup really important stuff to DVD.

I almost lost a HD once, and that once was all it took. It was the 120 above with all my stuff. Years of harvesting the net almost gone. Thankfully, it was a win2k drive. I put it in an XP box and low and behold, XP's disk utils fixed it when 2k's wouldn't.

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[LearningTOfly 0]

3 drives in 2 months... wow man, that's really frustrating.

I did try the freezer trick, but to no avail... thanks for the advice, though.

Now I do have a 40 gig external... relatively small, yes... but enough to hold the important stuff. I think I'll back that up with another external once I get the cash to buy a second. Just thinking about it- it's like a reserve for the reserve....