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[B'z-chan]

so i got to sleep last night forgeting to turn off the computer. I'm thinking oh well, leave it on. Come to wak up the computer restarted itself. At this point i'm thinking ok wtf happened here. I start up windows, looking around i see i'm missing some stuff.

Ok wtf happened now, i'm saying to myself. It hasnt occured to me that my back up drive just took a dive for the worse. The one thats secured and protected just fucking up and died on me.

So i try poping in a data recovery cd, the computer see's nothing. Now i'm on the phone with the maker of the hdd. I need some suggestions as to anything else i can do to get this thing working. I knew i should have invested into a DVD-RW drive but fuck.

Not to mention this HDD has my complete project on it. And i cant even if i wanted too try to do it all over again. All of my notes, papers anything and everything are on this drive.

does praying to god work to make pc's work for ya? or do i need to pray to another god?

(continues to fall into the madness of hell)

 

[Afro Thunder]

Today, a customer call me and say: "I've lost my data and I haven't any backup". I took his hard disk and I got to recover the lost data using the GetDataBack software. The app works nicely and I recommend it. If your system get "to see" your hard drive, you can download the software for FAT32 or NTFS (there is two versions), but the unlicensed version can only show the recoverable data to you and no really copy them to another disk, the complete version do the complete job of recovering data. Try out it here:
http://www.runtime.org/gdb.htm

 

[kitchenmotors]

Get a Mac.

 

[dem]

because we all know macs prevent harddrive failures

 

[demi]

My computer's been acting pretty slow itself the past few days. I load up AIM, and when I minimize it, it freezes and doesn't respond.

So I'm thinking of a fresh format, but I'm curious: I have two partitions, if I stash all my goodies on one of them (nothing's installed, just a bunch of files), could I format my C:\ and start a fresh install off that, leaving my precious files unharmed?

 

[dem]

So I'm thinking of a fresh format, but I'm curious: I have two partitions, if I stash all my goodies on one of them (nothing's installed, just a bunch of files), could I format my C:\ and start a fresh install off that, leaving my precious files unharmed?

Yes

 

[demi]

word life

 

[pj]

because we all know macs prevent harddrive failures

I think the reasoning is that since macs have no worthwhile software, the stress on the hdd will be much lower, reducing the risk of failure.

 

[fart]

jesus christ when will people stop backing their shit up on volatile media.

 

[B'z-chan]

jesus christ when will people stop backing their shit up on volatile media.

Send me your excess Media i demand it.


No seriously i just havent had enough money to get some CD-r's and i only like buying those big 100 disc spindles. And i just keep forgeting it when i'm at costco.

That is till something like this happens.

 

[alejob]

jesus christ when will people stop backing their shit up on volatile media.

I'm guessing after they start doing it. Who knows when that will be.

 

[fart]

ps, fixed disk drives are volatile media. i'm guessing the fact that you haven't realized this explains a bit about this current situation

 

[alejob]

ps, fixed disk drives are volatile media. i'm guessing the fact that you haven't realized this explains a bit about this current situation

My books have yet to realize this too. They say volatile media need electricity to store data.

 

[mrklaw]

I've gone paranoid about backups since my HDD failed and I lost about 3 months worth of photos and docs.

Now I have my PC ghosted, and the image on the HDD, on another external HDD, and on two sets of DVD-Rs.

Then I have my documents and photos set to backup to DVD and the external drive once a week, keeping the previous two backups.

 

[fart]

My books have yet to realize this too. They say volatile media need electricity to store data.

stop being an idiot and go with the literal and not the technical definition, dude. if you want me to say that fixed disk drives are persistent but not reliable, then there you go. i just can't see how you didn't know what i meant.

 

[FightyF]

I think the reasoning is that since macs have no worthwhile software, the stress on the hdd will be much lower, reducing the risk of failure.

True-che!