/Lights a candle for my 160GB Baracuda

[Anonymous]

My big bad harddrive crashed the other day. Everything is gone.  Years of my design work, mixes, apps, mp3s, email, bookmarks... everything.  All gone.

Luckily, I had my design work backed up through 2003, but the rest is toast.  It actually aches to think about it.

I'd been telling myself it was time to back everything up since I got a DVD burner a few months ago, but you know... there was always something more important to do (mxo).  Well, I've learned my lesson the hard way and now I gotta start over.

So, if you haven't done so in awhile (or ever)...  back it up.  You don't want to end up like me.

/psa

[Kosila]

Sorry to hear that's a good wake up call for the rest of us.

How old was it?

[Anonymous]

I bought a brand new 250GB hard drive to back up all my stuff onto. I put all my stuff onto it (222GB Worth), and then it does, causing all data to be destroyed, and the hard drive to make clicking and scraping sounds

[Ketamininja]

ontrack easy recovery professional.
If there is still power to the drive, this should be able to grab something back.

Some hard drives have a 3 year warranty with the manufacturer, btw.

[Anonymous]

Yeah, I've sent the drive back to get a replacement. Though, I doubt Ontrack could recover the data from that drive...considering it was making scraping and clicking sounds. I had to magnetically wipe the drive before I sent it in, due to it containing... *Ahem* ...sensitive information (AKA "Backups" of software, music, and movies"

[Ketamininja]

oh dear.
Well, actually, large drives like that have multiple "platters", it is likely that only one platter was "dead", and data could be found on other platters. My 80Gb died the other day, scraping noise etc.... the only thing that really happened to me was it lost the FILE SYSTEM, so couldn't lookup data, but it still retrieved.

Oh well... damn backups, I should really do it now

[Anonymous]

Lol Ive never had to use outstanding HD's I Use 120GB Built in HD never come close to filling half of the storage space on it soon I will though...

Yippe Soon  I get My RAM Upgrade:) ....

[Avzeke (Khr0n1k)]

I got a question here. Does anyone know why a drive would start up and then basically turn off and then turn back on then off again (as in start spinning and stop spinning or whatever it does) because the other day one of my drives im guessing my second drive started doing that and I annoyed the hell out of me because it was kinda loud. so does anyone know what it could be. It has stopped since then.

[Ketamininja]

Sounds like its not parking correctly.
A standard mechanism should "reset the needle head", and make it go through motions, but only if it doesn't sit properly. However, I'm not sure that method is used any more...

If could just need one hell of a defrag, have you installed anything large recently? Always have a backup ready, equipment comes with a warranty for a reason... cause they can't guarantee it'll live!!

[Anonymous]

Dude, Ket thanks for the tip.  I'm going to look into the Ontrack software.  Basicly what has happened is that it is not detected by the BIOS, but it powers up/spins like everything is alright.  It never made any scraping sounds.  Maybe there is hope after all.

[Anonymous]

Yeah, this drive was not recognized by the BIOS, by Windows, or by Maxtor's Proprietary Diagnostic Software. I couldn't get anything to even see that the drive was there, and I couldn't get my recovery software to spot it

[Anonymous]

the scraping could be that you got dust between the needle and platter?

[Ketamininja]

ok, not recognised by the bios is another problem... erk.
This means that the controller has failed, and thats a circuit problem.

Some drives out there can be detected by good software (check the drive manufacturers tools), but in general, its gone then.

[Anonymous]

*bawls*  Ah well, I've already pretty much accepted that it's gone.  I'm going to look into having it rebuilt and recovered though, there is alot of  data on there that is important to me.

I almost think it might have been related to all my other problems with mxo, which usually meant the system froze and I have to do a hard reboot.  I probably had to do that at least 100 times since the end of beta.  I kinda thought that maybe my mxo problems were due to a failing drive, but now that I am back up on a different drive, it is still happening.