you're all getting an update

[zorra_chiflada]

hard drive corrupted! woo! so i've lost everything and i have no computer. they said they're getting a new one in but that will probably take approximately 2 million years. man, i was upset when they told me that yesterday. i had lots of shit on there, and now i have no shit.

[Kid Presentable]

Brand new Zorra. That sucks, man.

[The Notorious LOL]

RAID 1 is whats up.

[zorra_chiflada]

i totally estrogened out yesterday and actually cried about it. me crying is not a common event. i think i have an addiction :(

[Miho Mingu]

Eh, you'll get over it. I had a hard-drive crash several years ago, and lost all my music, but before you know it, you'll re-collect a new collection in no time.

[zorra_chiflada]

i know, i'm still really fucking upset about the music, and the programs i have to get back - photoshop, illustrator, indesign etc. and photos too. i need to make a list. this like this are hard when you have a computer addiction.

[Ace42X]

You have my sympathies. When I lost my hard-drive, I had to say goodbye to a lot of porn that was near irreplaceable. I was inconsolable, until I went online and downloaded some more.

[zorra_chiflada]

can someone tell me why this happened? was it my fault? i'd like to avoid occurrences like this in the future.

[Ace42X]

can someone tell me why this happened?

There can be a number of causes:

1. Turning off the PC without windows shutting down properly, etc. If the drive is in use when it turns off, data will be partially written, and if the read-head is on the disc surface when the power goes off, is not in a safe position.

2. Magnets close to the drive. Speakers or CRT monitors are obvious candidates.

3. Drive old age - alas, it happens.

4. Bad / Mismatched RAM. Can cause problems with the drive access, causing it to dump garbage and end up ruining the FAT, and consequently the whole drive.

5. Vibrations, drives HATE vibrations.

6. Smoking, although less of a problem for modern well-sealed drives, it could be a contributing factor in some situations. Smoke sticks to sensitive surfaces.

7. Viruses, they can be programmed to corrupt drive data.

[zorra_chiflada]

ok:
1. doubtful
2. maybe
3. absolutely not
4. no
5. probably :(
6. no way
7. perhaps

[Miho Mingu]

Man, my drive makes an occasional, loud buzzing noise, and I'm worried. I should burn off all the important files to DVD soon. ;\

[zorra_chiflada]

mine used to click all the time. or something.

[Ace42X]

Like all the bad things in life, swift onset doesn't necessarily indicate immediate cause. Any of the above could've been working in concert for however long your drive was in operation, slowly corrupting random sectors. However, if the whole drive has got fzzt, suggesting the disc surface itself is corrupted, that suggests the drive read head has crashed onto the disc itself (vibrations) or it was SERIOUSLY derased by a strong magnetic force, less likely given how well modern drives are shielded.

If the drive just stopped accessing (IE the data wasn't corrupted, just inaccessible) - chances are a chip on the logic board blew. If you can get an identical drive with the same logic board (IE the same firmware on the logic board) you can replace just that and access the magnetic part of the disc, reclaiming lost data.

[skra75]

hard drive corrupted! woo! so i've lost everything

chinese porn man, chinese porn. gotta watch out for your shit

[zorra_chiflada]

it was totally fine when i started it up that day, then i restarted it and it was all COMPUTER OVER! IT DEAD! YOU LOSE!

[Miho Mingu]

Maybe you jynxed me, Ace--my power just went out, shutting down my PC. ;( It's raining so hard here.

[Miho Mingu]

it was totally fine when i started it up that day, then i restarted it and it was all COMPUTER OVER! IT DEAD! YOU LOSE!

Hehe..and Zorra's like "Nooooooo~", blaming Joe, probably.

[The Notorious LOL]

Like all the bad things in life, swift onset doesn't necessarily indicate immediate cause. Any of the above could've been working in concert for however long your drive was in operation, slowly corrupting random sectors. However, if the whole drive has got fzzt, suggesting the disc surface itself is corrupted, that suggests the drive read head has crashed onto the disc itself (vibrations) or it was SERIOUSLY derased by a strong magnetic force, less likely given how well modern drives are shielded.

If the drive just stopped accessing (IE the data wasn't corrupted, just inaccessible) - chances are a chip on the logic board blew. If you can get an identical drive with the same logic board (IE the same firmware on the logic board) you can replace just that and access the magnetic part of the disc, reclaiming lost data.



easier said than done, and most average PC users arent going to take the time to do that when at most they lost some mp3s and shit.

[zorra_chiflada]

yeah, actually i was like JOE GET IN HERE NOW

[Documad]

I had a itunes accident several years ago and nearly lost all my music.

I learned a HUGE lesson and I store everything I care about on a backup harddrive. In fact, I have two backup harddrives. When my old computer finally died this spring, it took me only about a day to get everything up and running on a new computer because of the backup harddrives. I know that they're expensive, but if you can possibly afford one, they're a great investment.

[The Notorious LOL]

get two drives and mirror your shit if you are concerned about the possibility of it happening again. Hard drive space is cheap enough.

[zorra_chiflada]

yeah, i'm going to be cautious now i think. ah geez.

[HEIRESS]

I owned my first computer for almost 4 years and the last message it ever sent me was 'start backing up files now, your harddrive has sustained PHYSICAL DAMAGE'

and then she just straight up died and the techie dude I brought in to give her a once over was just all "whoah, its like you have this thing for 8 years with the amount of damage youve done to it"

WEEEEEEEEEEEEeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

[TurdBerglar]

almost all my music is on cd's that i've actually bought. and the bit that i have downloaded is on my mp3 player. and i periodically back up pirated software(cad programs for school and things like that) to my mp3 player as well. i would do a raid 1 (currently using raid 0 for speed) but it seems like a waste to me. oh yeah, try enabling S.M.A.R.T. in the bios. it tells you when your hard drives are about to crap out. you get into the bios be tapping delete at the very first boot screen.

[zorra_chiflada]

i had my old computer for 5 years (still have it) and it never had any major problems. of course now, it's an old piece of shit. but it's an old piece of shit with no problems.

[Randetica]

i couldnt get online for one and half years

one and half fucking years!!!!!!!!!!!!!

plus all shit gone, wasnt that much though
damn virus wank shit!

[jackrock]

I'm on my 4th computer in the last 8-10 months or so. The original one had everything I could possibly ever need, then all of a sudden it just up and died. Not all the other computers quit, we just got better ones for free, though it was frusterating trying to get back all of my stuff (still haven't). I'm tempted to take an old computer, get her fired up and take out the heat sink, hell if a computer's gonna die, it had better die cool.

[alexandra]

the same thing happened with my former two computers.

but i had spilled juice on them x times. :rolleyes:
chinese porn man, chinese porn. gotta watch out for your shit
hahahhaha

[DustSucker]

My previous computer got locked up all of a sudden when I was playing Metal Gear Solid. It completely froze, and when I restarted it said I should re-install windows. Luckily most of my shit (songs, movies, games) are stored on a separate harddrive :)

I hope to get a new pc soon, before this one crashes xD

[na§tee]

same happened to me. my laptop went kaput. which was a good thing, probably, as i was still on dial up and raking up £100 phone bills. not good.

the power in thingie got all bent and uh, thingied and the male part of it sort of, uh, broke off inside the female part inside the uh.. laptop (due to flatmate storming past me and ripping it out violently when it was inserted). i could only charge it if i put a tiny piece of aluminium on the end making a, er.. live connection and holding it just so. lots of sparks, heat and electric shockage followed. my battery adapter started beeping, man. that sorta isht wasn't even included in the manual. not a good idea.

so i replaced it. more cost effective that getting the whole previous one fixed, seeing as i probably melted the motherboard. an acer aspire 5672. see gift thread in sure shots. sexy as hell. 120G hardrive, 2G RAM, wireless, sexy sexy sexy stuff. now i just have to wait for the goddamned talktalk broadband to come!

[DustSucker]

that sorta isht wasn't even included in the manual.
hahahaa:D

[ampm]

i totally estrogened out yesterday and actually cried about it. me crying is not a common event. i think i have an addiction :(

Oh brother. If given the means you'd crush the 'trifecta pathetica.'

[zorra_chiflada]

yeah, i know. so?

[beastiegirrl101]

Hi Zorrs!

[GetYourWarOn]

hard drive corrupted! woo! so i've lost everything and i have no computer. they said they're getting a new one in but that will probably take approximately 2 million years. man, i was upset when they told me that yesterday. i had lots of shit on there, and now i have no shit.

blows.

[zorra_chiflada]

how much would an external hard drive cost? in australian dollars PLEASE

[TurdBerglar]

why do you want an external?


they are more expensive and have slower transfer rates

[jabumbo]

whats the exchange rate?


ps: zorra i want you bad

[zorra_chiflada]

why do you want an external?


they are more expensive and have slower transfer rates

well, you tell me what i should do then. tell me exactly. like give me steps.
GO!

[TurdBerglar]

buy a fuckn' normal ide hard drive

[Documad]

buy a fuckn' normal ide hard drive
How do you back things up? Like 80GB of music. How do you store an extra copy?

[zorra_chiflada]

yeah. tell me that. in detail please. use terms that i would understand. GO!

[jabumbo]

How do you back things up? Like 80GB of music. How do you store an extra copy?


if you have 2 drives, you just copy from one to the other

[TurdBerglar]

put it on another hard drive? copy it to dvds?


or set up a raid 1 but that's not the easiest thing

[zorra_chiflada]

you mean two hard drives in the computer internals? is that what you mean?

[TurdBerglar]

you mean two hard drives in the computer internals? is that what you mean?


i have three in my pc. two are in raid. meaning there are set up to act as one hard drive. so they both have the same information on them. that offers backing up abilities if one of the drives dies and it offer higher data transfer rates.

[zorra_chiflada]

i have three in my pc. two are in raid. meaning there are set up to act as one hard drive. so they both have the same information on them. that offers backing up abilities if one of the drives dies and it offer higher data transfer rates.

well, that's too hard for me. i'm not going to do that. i'm going to do something easier. like an external hard drive.

[TurdBerglar]

internal ones are better!

[zorra_chiflada]

i can't do that! i can't do stuff like that! stop taunting me!

[TurdBerglar]

all you have to do is screw it in place and plug in two plugs then format it.

[zorra_chiflada]

no! stop it! no! i'm not going to do that! jeeez!

[TurdBerglar]

fine

spend more money on a lower performing product

[zorra_chiflada]

FINE THEN I WILL!











:(

[Documad]

if you have 2 drives, you just copy from one to the other
Yes. That's what I do with my external harddrive. I store an extra copy of everything on there.

I have a mac laptop and I don't understand anything about computers except how to backup my laptop's memory every month or so. I learned that at the Apple Store when I had an itunes disaster with my old laptop (caused by human error). I didn't think there was any other option.

[GetYourWarOn]

i have some cheap external one that i bought on clearence at best buy. it's awesome.

[jabumbo]

when my old computer crashed, i just took my old hard drive and made it my slave drive. but instead of using it to backup, it holds up to 60 gigs worth of movies, usually at full capacity