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Miso	Posted - 2003.11.26 09:11:00 - [1] Sorry I had to bail last night, one of my hardrives died. Luckily it was the one with the OS and programs and not the data drive. Picking up a new one today. I think all that "exotic material" I download everynight overloaded it! Miso x -------------------------------------------- Dead
Psychodaddy	Posted - 2003.11.26 09:34:00 - [2] I forgive you.
J3tt	Posted - 2003.11.26 09:49:00 - [3] downloading "exotic material" is my job damnit read the sig ----------------------------------------- Can your pod outrun a cruise missle?
Miso	Posted - 2003.11.26 09:49:00 - [4] Maybe we should "swap notes"? -------------------------------------------- Dead
drunkenmaster	Posted - 2003.11.26 10:03:00 - [5] Edited by: drunkenmaster on 26/11/2003 10:04:13 Quote: Sorry I had to bail last night, one of my hardrives died. Luckily it was the one with the OS and programs and not the data drive. Picking up a new one today. I think all that "exotic material" I download everynight overloaded it! Miso x I feel your pain. Monday night, Computer A shat it's harddrive. As ever, I lost a bootload of pawn, UT, BF1942, Eve, all my chatlogs, screengrabs, movieclips. Luckily (?) it was a fairly new rig, so I didn't lose anything of real value, but it's still a pain in the arse. I grabbed an HD from work to rebuild last night, and should be getting some new ones delivered today. And then I gotta go through all the nonsense of RMA'ing it. Losing HD's sucks nuts. [edit, I can't believe p.r0n hit the filter] .
voogru	Posted - 2003.11.26 10:05:00 - [6] Was it an IBM drive? I had one fail on me, with about 5 years of stuff I had, since I had no money for data recovery I was pretty much screwed, but I heard something about freezing the drive for an hour (put it in the proper anti-static bag then inside a normal plastic bag) and it might operate for about 10-20 mins, I managed to do that and it worked long enough to get my data off it, it had condensation all over it too, quite freaky if you ask me. Depending on how the drive dies this may work if you want to recover anything that may be important (if the drive still spins the freezer trick might work). ------- Your 425mm Prototype I Gauss Gun perfectly strikes Guardian Enforcer, wrecking for 827.3 damage.
Miso	Posted - 2003.11.26 10:12:00 - [7] Hug DM? hugs swarthy pirate, and quickly gropes his sabre Its a maxtor drive, and they have never failed me before - so I suppose it was a matter of time before one went kaput! In this computer I have a 20g for OS and programs (I dont install alot of progs) and 100g for data. Luckily it was the 20g that went otherwise I wouldn't be posting on this board now (I'd be to upset to even come to work). Has made me realise that backing up may be a good idea... -------------------------------------------- Dead
Darkwolf	Posted - 2003.11.26 10:28:00 - [8] Had this happen to me two weeks ago. One of the (two month old) 120 gig Maxtor's in my 240 gig RAID 0 array died, taking the whole array with it. Lost everything. Including major assignments and essays for final year at uni, due three days later... Not fun. And the biggest irony is I even had a tape drive, I'd just been putting off backing everything up to tape :P I now have three full backups, and a set of incremental backups
EvilEric	Posted - 2003.11.26 10:30:00 - [9] Backup... oh yeah... Quick tip... do a clean install, put all the latest drivers, OS updates on and install EVE and confiure it to you liking. Then do a Norton Ghost Image onto a seperate HD (will prolly take up about 2-3gigs) Create a Ghost boot floppy and bingo. You can be back up and running inside 15 mins.
j0sephine	Posted - 2003.11.26 10:38:00 - [10] "hugs swarthy pirate, and quickly gropes his sabre" ... "and I half expected it to be made of wood. You are without a doubt the worst pirate I've ever heard of." ;s
drunkenmaster	Posted - 2003.11.26 10:47:00 - [11] hugs Miso For the record, it was a Hitachi/IBM Deskstar 180Gb. I've lost IBM harddrives before, but I figured I would give the new hitachi/IBM a go. I wish I hadn't now. I have also lost Maxtors in the past, and a Western Digital. I'm beginning to think it's due to environmental effects (a lot of dust in my game room), although my PC is filtered up to the nines. Still, I should be able to get these new drives in tonight. Also, I totally recommend Ghost backups of your system drive, although I'd do it before I installed Eve, ideally. It's a fantastic piece of software. I usually build windows, run all the updates, put in all the drivers, and necessary stuff (winzip/IRC/browser/winamp) and run a backup of that. Unfortunately, I didn't do it this time round. I guess I was too eager to play Eve on the new rig heavy sigh .
DREAMWORKS	Posted - 2003.11.26 10:48:00 - [12] Just use backup tapes every night. __________________________ http://www.nin.com/visuals/thtf_hi.html
Zorael	Posted - 2003.11.26 11:01:00 - [13] You can get thru the hassle of feeding the tape drive every day... ...or choose life - - - Lack of planning on your part doesn't constitute an emergency on my part
Kurenin	Posted - 2003.11.26 11:06:00 - [14] It wasnt going anywhere anyway Miso love. ----- [22:02] <Kurenin> anyhow, on a more serious note, what did you think of those ideas? [22:02] <Hammerhead> we can't do anything that requires programming Inactivity wins you.
Indigo Seqi	Posted - 2003.11.26 11:14:00 - [15] What was going on last night?
Kurenin	Posted - 2003.11.26 11:16:00 - [16] PIE were ****ed at the squad you had in sarum prime and tried to raise a fleet, ended up with tons of apocs/armas/omens, it was fuxed ----- [22:02] <Kurenin> anyhow, on a more serious note, what did you think of those ideas? [22:02] <Hammerhead> we can't do anything that requires programming Inactivity wins you.
ElCoCo	Posted - 2003.11.26 11:23:00 - [17] One thing to take note of... I tried once the Automatic System Recovery (ASR) of win xp... IT`S THE STUPIDEST THING DEVISED BY MICROSOFT ...I say ok let`s make a backup of everything, sounds like a good idea incase win pops or anything... POP... ok let`s ASR then... insert winXP CD, boot from CD... ... ... Press F8 (or something to begin ASR) ... ... insert ASR disk ... ... WIN XP IS FORMATING PARTITION XXXXX AAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRGHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!! That`s it ... no warning that it`s going to format it after the F8 key press, no nothing... everything gone... was it too wrong from me to think that it would keep other directories in the disk...BAH It`s EBIL I tell you EBIL!
F4ze	Posted - 2003.11.26 11:34:00 - [18] Quote: Had this happen to me two weeks ago. One of the (two month old) 120 gig Maxtor's in my 240 gig RAID 0 array died, taking the whole array with it. Lost everything. Including major assignments and essays for final year at uni, due three days later... Not fun. And the biggest irony is I even had a tape drive, I'd just been putting off backing everything up to tape :P I now have three full backups, and a set of incremental backups I don't even dare dream of such a scenario...losing my thesis for uni would be the end of the world.
VeNT	Posted - 2003.11.26 12:03:00 - [19] my PC blew up in a shower of sparks a few weeks back, the power line got hit by lightning it melted the anti-surge thing and my PSU, motherboard, Processor, Ram, Hard drive, graphics card and CD-RW it looks like the earth line in the surge strip went live, but lucaly the insurance co payed out the orig price i payed for all the kit so now i have a nice new NF7-s v2 with a 2500 barton (at 3200 speeds) 1 gig of DDR 400 crutail ram, 2 80 gig hard drives etc etc etc good thing i had just bought a tape backup thing, and had backed up EVERYTHING to the tapes!!! nearly shat myself at the thought of losing all my fking work/accounts!
WhiteDwarf	Posted - 2003.11.26 12:06:00 - [20] "I've lost IBM harddrives before, but I figured I would give the new hitachi/IBM a go. I wish I hadn't now" I know what you mean, those dirves have really failed me as of late. Though my IBM SCSI drives seem to last... The WD 10k SATA drives look pretty sweet to me, I think that is the way I will go in the future... "Trust No One"
StealthNet	Posted - 2003.11.26 12:42:00 - [21] Quote: Hug DM? hugs swarthy pirate, and quickly gropes his sabre Its a maxtor drive, and they have never failed me before - so I suppose it was a matter of time before one went kaput! In this computer I have a 20g for OS and programs (I dont install alot of progs) and 100g for data. Luckily it was the 20g that went otherwise I wouldn't be posting on this board now (I'd be to upset to even come to work). Has made me realise that backing up may be a good idea... Interesting, my experience with Maxtor and Western Digital HDs are not good. They seem to be more fragile... _______________________________________________
Maud Dib	Posted - 2003.11.26 13:12:00 - [22] Sorry Miso It might have been my fault. I had hard drive blowupitis last week and you might have caught it from me. You still up for Indy ganking, InkZ and Jade we're talking about joining us.
voogru	Posted - 2003.11.26 14:50:00 - [23] Quote: For the record, it was a Hitachi/IBM Deskstar 180Gb. You mean Deathstar. ------- Your 425mm Prototype I Gauss Gun perfectly strikes Guardian Enforcer, wrecking for 827.3 damage.
DREAMWORKS	Posted - 2003.11.26 14:51:00 - [24] Quote: Sorry I had to bail last night, one of my hardrives died. Luckily it was the one with the OS and programs and not the data drive. Picking up a new one today. I think all that "exotic material" I download everynight overloaded it! Miso x Ill forgive you if you bend ov... nm... eve girls are guys. __________________________ http://www.nin.com/visuals/thtf_hi.html
Gan Ning	Posted - 2003.11.26 14:59:00 - [25] All this talk of Hard drives corrupting is freaking me out. If my 2nd hard disk ever died i'd loose 20GB of MP3's! (Yeh Audiogalaxy and Napster used to pwn before the RAA got to em ). Time for a DVD writer probably.
Rohann	Posted - 2003.11.26 15:03:00 - [26] Quote: One thing to take note of... I tried once the Automatic System Recovery (ASR) of win xp... IT`S THE STUPIDEST THING DEVISED BY MICROSOFT ...I say ok let`s make a backup of everything, sounds like a good idea incase win pops or anything... POP... ok let`s ASR then... insert winXP CD, boot from CD... ... ... Press F8 (or something to begin ASR) ... ... insert ASR disk ... ... WIN XP IS FORMATING PARTITION XXXXX AAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRGHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!! That`s it ... no warning that it`s going to format it after the F8 key press, no nothing... everything gone... was it too wrong from me to think that it would keep other directories in the disk...BAH I really dont mean to flame there guy but....YOUR A DUMBASS!!! Wtf are you doing reformatting your xp machine for? Recovery doesnt do that. You pressed a VERY wrong button somewhere. Go actually buy XP and it may not give you as many problems.....lol
Koda	Posted - 2003.11.26 15:13:00 - [27] This thread is scaring me, with my new PC arriving in the next day or two.... Good thing I don't believe in omens. On a side note, I did drop my laptop on the floor which took the monitor out. -------------- Share the love in the SNIGG Forums
drunkenmaster	Posted - 2003.11.26 15:26:00 - [28] Quote: All this talk of Hard drives corrupting is freaking me out. If my 2nd hard disk ever died i'd loose 20GB of MP3's! (Yeh Audiogalaxy and Napster used to pwn before the RAA got to em ). Time for a DVD writer probably. I'd advise buying a spare HD, if you want to back up your stuff. it's faster, and cheaper. (I'm getting two 80Gb drives for ú40 each, one of these will be to backup my mp3's, my 'work', and all the other crap I'd rather not lose.) And yes, IBM deskstars have been known as deathstars for quite some time now. I thought the merger with Hitachi might has caused improvements to their tech. I was mistaken. .
Miso	Posted - 2003.11.26 15:43:00 - [29] DM - i was thinking exactly the same thing about backup HDD... HDD's are so cheap now anyway. -------------------------------------------- Dead
Bad Harlequin	Posted - 2003.11.26 15:52:00 - [30] 1) offline backups 2) offline backups 3) offSITE backups 4) IBM hardrives are were and always will be teh suxx0r. You are in a maze of twisty little asteroids, all alike.

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