LordJezo
01-14-2008, 04:03 AM
Yay!
It's my turn to deal with a failed hard drive. It came out of no where on a drive that is only 7 months old. 320 gigs down the drain. It wasn't failing slowly, it gave me no warning signs, and it didn't even have the kindness to give me at least one more reboot to grab stuff off of it. I turn off the monitor one night to go to bed and when I come back the next morning to check the news and weather I notice that Windows is not responding very well. I reboot the machine to fix whatever is wrong with it and the thing freezes at the initial POST screen. I futz with it for a while and when I pull the drive out to listen to see if I can hear it doing anything I hear the dreaded noise of a drive completely screwing up. It wasn't a data corruption issue either, it mechanically failed. When you turn it on the thing shakes in a regular pattern and a computer will not detect it.
I have tried external enclosures, putting it in the freezer over night, giving it a smack, and rocking it around a little bit, I know these things are not that good for a drive but it was a last ditch effort to get it working. Dead. I can't do data recovery as the hard drive hardware is busted.
Lost in the disaster are: my gigs and gigs of anime, my operating system, some music put on my desktop folders, some movies, my save game files for stuff I was in the middle of playing like Half Life 2 and Sam and Max, and a few random pictures. I am sure there was a lot more but I can't remember half of what was on there.
Luckily my second hard drive remained alive and I did not lose a year's worth of pictures, my entire music collection, and a few other game files, but for the most part everything I had was lost.
Sucks. I didn't even consider backing up this hard drive as this was a new one I used to replace an aging 40 gig one that I have had around for years, but now I am back to using the 40 gig, which is still running strong.
Bah.
I should be able to get a replacement as the drive is under warranty until 2012, but the loss of all that data is pretty terrible. Except I feel like in a week I wont even miss anything that I have lost. Sure, it is going to be a pain in the ass to reinstall Windows again and get it patched up to the latest version, but after it's all done I won't care at all about what I lost. I suppose this will be a good thing, a forced cleaning of all my crap that I was hording for so long.
Any else experience hard drive failure? It makes you feel like crap the first day but now that a weekend has gone by I am not too worried about it.
It's my turn to deal with a failed hard drive. It came out of no where on a drive that is only 7 months old. 320 gigs down the drain. It wasn't failing slowly, it gave me no warning signs, and it didn't even have the kindness to give me at least one more reboot to grab stuff off of it. I turn off the monitor one night to go to bed and when I come back the next morning to check the news and weather I notice that Windows is not responding very well. I reboot the machine to fix whatever is wrong with it and the thing freezes at the initial POST screen. I futz with it for a while and when I pull the drive out to listen to see if I can hear it doing anything I hear the dreaded noise of a drive completely screwing up. It wasn't a data corruption issue either, it mechanically failed. When you turn it on the thing shakes in a regular pattern and a computer will not detect it.
I have tried external enclosures, putting it in the freezer over night, giving it a smack, and rocking it around a little bit, I know these things are not that good for a drive but it was a last ditch effort to get it working. Dead. I can't do data recovery as the hard drive hardware is busted.
Lost in the disaster are: my gigs and gigs of anime, my operating system, some music put on my desktop folders, some movies, my save game files for stuff I was in the middle of playing like Half Life 2 and Sam and Max, and a few random pictures. I am sure there was a lot more but I can't remember half of what was on there.
Luckily my second hard drive remained alive and I did not lose a year's worth of pictures, my entire music collection, and a few other game files, but for the most part everything I had was lost.
Sucks. I didn't even consider backing up this hard drive as this was a new one I used to replace an aging 40 gig one that I have had around for years, but now I am back to using the 40 gig, which is still running strong.
Bah.
I should be able to get a replacement as the drive is under warranty until 2012, but the loss of all that data is pretty terrible. Except I feel like in a week I wont even miss anything that I have lost. Sure, it is going to be a pain in the ass to reinstall Windows again and get it patched up to the latest version, but after it's all done I won't care at all about what I lost. I suppose this will be a good thing, a forced cleaning of all my crap that I was hording for so long.
Any else experience hard drive failure? It makes you feel like crap the first day but now that a weekend has gone by I am not too worried about it.