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FA Discussion => General => Topic started by: Tbone on March 09, 2006, 01:57:00 am

Title: Hard Drive Crash
Post by: Tbone on March 09, 2006, 01:57:00 am

It appears that, while playing MxO tonight, my hard drive crashed. I got the blue screen of death and then, while trying to reboot, got a disk read error and have not been able to fix it. I'm on my roommate's computer right now. I restarted it a few times and one of those times either smoke or dust came shooting out of my computer. It doesn't look good. My roommate is gonna take it into work (Circuit City) tomorrow. I've lost a lot of stuff and I'm not happy. It may be a while before I can get back.

Title: Re: Hard Drive Crash
Post by: Adad on March 09, 2006, 11:13:10 am

I'm sorry TBone, hope they can restore as much as possible...

Title: Re: Hard Drive Crash
Post by: Anonymous on March 09, 2006, 01:04:53 pm

Yea I have backed up my HD because last night while doing a word document my comp froze for about 10 seconds and then my Mobo started beeping.  Not good.  It could be any day now for my HD to crash aswell.

Although I thought it was funny that it did it during a Microsoft Word document, I guess my HD doesnt like Term papers.

Title: Re: Hard Drive Crash
Post by: Anonymous on March 09, 2006, 01:16:02 pm

Don't flame me for suggesting it, but get a backup solution.  I use a network drive now (previously I had nothing).  The Maxtor stuff is really good, OneTouch and their media drives can both do incremental network backups to any timetable.  Just my two pence ;)

Title: Re: Hard Drive Crash
Post by: Eroz on March 09, 2006, 02:53:47 pm

If you dont get anything back from Circut City, I would suggest trying Bart PE before you go doing anything to the harddrive (like reformatting it.) Bart PE worked good for me, I got the information I wanted off the disk then reformatted it.

Title: Re: Hard Drive Crash
Post by: Anonymous on March 09, 2006, 03:47:42 pm

I have heard many good things about BART PE, I agree with Eroz.  I have used Powerquest Lost & Found before and found that to be excellent, but now Symantec owns them I don't know if that product is still being produced

Title: Re: Hard Drive Crash
Post by: Tbone on March 09, 2006, 04:05:40 pm

From what I heard, information recovery usually costs thousands of dollars and was pretty much only for large businesses. I haven't heard of BART PE. My friend suggested putting the drive in the freezer for a while and then trying to boot it up long enough to get data from it.

Title: Hard Drive Crash
Post by: Da6onet on March 09, 2006, 05:31:35 pm

In my experience, harddrives usually fail because of mechanical reasons (ie, the pins get misaligned or plug adapter is fried from a surge) rather than a material failure (the shiny disc loses it's integrity or magnetic orientation), so hopefully it can be fixed with new parts. Else the only way to attempt data retrieval is a painstakingly slow process of looking at each sector with the equivalent to an electron microscope to see if there is any stable data left.

Title: Hard Drive Crash
Post by: Styan on March 09, 2006, 06:19:41 pm

yea freezing it worked when an older drive of mine crashed... hope you get it all worked out soon T.

Title: Hard Drive Crash
Post by: Eroz on March 09, 2006, 06:30:16 pm

Bart PE works only in the case of software problems, if its a mechanical problem Bart PE won't do a thing for it.

Title: Hard Drive Crash
Post by: Kosila on March 09, 2006, 09:08:33 pm

:( Yeah hard drives don't last forever... I've had only one crash on me before.

Title: Hard Drive Crash
Post by: Anonymous on March 09, 2006, 10:11:01 pm

Let's hope the hard disk just corrupted from a power surge then, you shouldn't have too much trouble getting that back

Title: Hard Drive Crash
Post by: Tbone on March 10, 2006, 05:40:54 pm

Um, so a guy showed up today, hard drive in hand, and installed the new one. I tried installing Windows XP - doesn't work. It is not reading the new drive during installation. I can't even create a new partition. I definiely need help. I tried calling support and they said they were away on vacation. I called the tech guy who installed it and he said XP may not recognize my drive and I may need to create a special boot disk or something. Arg! Nothing is working!

Title: Hard Drive Crash
Post by: Lits on March 10, 2006, 06:05:25 pm

At this point... I would just get a new one and try to restore everything I could... I'm sorry.

Title: Hard Drive Crash
Post by: Tbone on March 10, 2006, 06:07:10 pm

I did get a new one. Good news is I figured out how to manually install the hard drive, so I'm currently installing Windows XP. Looks like I'm starting the long process of reinventing my computer. :(

Title: Hard Drive Crash
Post by: Styan on March 10, 2006, 06:50:40 pm

Has there been a big bang yet??  Did you see the milky way?  wait... nevermind...

*runs back to his quarters on the Evigilos*

Translation: WOOHOO!! T's got a new HD!

Title: Hard Drive Crash
Post by: Avzeke (Khr0n1k) on March 10, 2006, 09:04:08 pm

make sure the harddrive is set to be a Master and not a slave.

Title: Hard Drive Crash
Post by: Da6onet on March 10, 2006, 09:28:41 pm

Quote from: "Khr0n1k"

make sure the harddrive is set to be a Master and not a slave.

Tbone IS the Master!

Title: Hard Drive Crash
Post by: Anonymous on March 10, 2006, 09:36:40 pm

dont worry, im in the same boat as you... i lost all my bookmarks to my favorite porn sites..

Title: Hard Drive Crash
Post by: Lits on March 11, 2006, 12:04:16 am

And that's NEVER a good thing :(

Title: Hard Drive Crash
Post by: Tbone on March 11, 2006, 02:48:31 am

Well, I finally got Windows XP installed correctly and my ethernet driver installed (was a bitch to find). Now I'm updating all my shiznit. Should take a while...arg...

Title: Hard Drive Crash
Post by: Bellthazor on March 11, 2006, 08:22:30 am

Congrats boss,
hopefully you can get the data you need from the old HDD...