Topic: My hard drive died.
started by: damien_s_lucifer
Posted by damien_s_lucifer on Mar. 01 2002,01:02
It's kind of nice to be able to say "well, this drive is fucked" and not worry about your data because you actually back it up.Just a reminder, people...
Posted by veistran on Mar. 01 2002,01:30
/me looks at big stack of cds
Posted by liquid metal on Mar. 01 2002,01:46
man...i just put all my pr0n on a 3 cd set. i was surprised it only took 3 cd's...
Posted by Wiley on Mar. 01 2002,03:28
| Quote (damien_s_lucifer @ 28 Feb. 2002,17:02) |
| It's kind of nice to be able to say "well, this drive is fucked" and not worry about your data because you actually back it up. |
You sir, are my hero.
Posted by damien_s_lucifer on Mar. 01 2002,06:37
Thanks, Wiley.I managed to rescue my Win98 installation. I still have to reinstall XP, but at least my system is somewhat useable again... I missed it
Posted by CatKnight on Mar. 01 2002,06:57
when i reformat i dont even bother to back up anything. i just email myself my resume and some other important documents and then re-rip all my cds later.
Posted by Anztac on Mar. 01 2002,09:37
I would kill if I lost all my stuff.Kill.
Unfortunatly I don't enough money to get more HD space and backup on my Linux server, or I would. That or tape drives, but that's even worse expense wise.
Posted by DuSTman on Mar. 01 2002,13:54
I'm sure those mail server admins absolutely adore you doing that, ck.Thing is with windows is the default save directory for a lot of programs isn't the users "my documents" folder, but rather in the programs executable directory. Makes it hard to round up everything that you want to keep.
Posted by damien_s_lucifer on Mar. 01 2002,23:25
so true, so true. It would be nice if wildcard grepping included a NOT operator, huh? then you could say something likexcopy /h /e /c /k C:\!(*.exe,*.sys,*.dll) D:\backup\
and grab everything you want without much of the junk.
Posted by BlackFlag on Mar. 02 2002,19:42
wait a week, the try your fuxored HD again. the Hard drive faries might fix it by then.This might sound silly, but i've seen the hard drive faries' work too many times.......
Posted by Wiley on Mar. 02 2002,19:51
I've seen it too!! Once the hard drive fairies changed my dead Quantum drive into a doorstop! Those guys r0x0r!!
Posted by BlackFlag on Mar. 02 2002,20:11
Sometimes Hermie, (the microscopic gnome who spins the disk, and has a 2nd job in my playstation), needs a break. give him a few days vacation, then see if he wants to come back to work. 
Posted by Necromancer on Mar. 03 2002,23:02
what so wait until the mechanics of the HDD un-sieze so you can go back to using it until it breaks again only worse. if it stops working its usually a sign that something bads going on. v:)
Posted by BlackFlag on Mar. 03 2002,23:20
maybe, maybe not. the 20 gig hd i got in died once. just stopped working one day. wouldn't respond, and bios couldn't recognize it.
a week later, just for shits and giggles, i try hooking it up again, and viola, it works perfectly fine. that was like 3 months ago, and no problems since.
Posted by veistran on Mar. 04 2002,01:56
| Quote (BlackFlag @ 02 Mar. 2002,14:11) |
| Sometimes Hermie, (the microscopic gnome who spins the disk, and has a 2nd job in my playstation), needs a break. give him a few days vacation, then see if he wants to come back to work. |
yeah, it's not like the magic smoke came out.