Yep, me too!
Years ago a friend of mine asked me, “why do you backup so much, you use computers all the time?”. To which I replied "er, I use computers all the time … " ;D
That hard drive has barely been used at all, and it´s been stored wrapped in a blanket to avoid any kind of shock (earthquake), it´s never been dropped, I never move it around, always do the safe removal thing and it just dies. Meanwhile my friend has kept on abusing his old backup drive constantly for 2 years, kept it connected 24/7, thrown it around, e.t.c and it´s still working.
If only my laptop hadn´t taken a fucking year to repair. 9 days to ORDER a new motherboard? And then because they were so slow the only holiday they have in Japan came (golden week).
The hard drive is currently running chkdsk over night at my friends house, but the file system is reported as RAW in Windows file explorer and chkdsk is horrifyingly slow and reporting unreadable file record sections. I don´t know much about hard drives or chkdsk, but those aren´t good signs in my experience, and I´ve had a number of hard drives die on me.
There is always the option to send the hard drive to a data recovery service which might be able to get your data back for you. Will cost you a bit though but really depends on how much your data is worth to you.
If you want to have any chance of having a data recovery by a specialized company, STOP RIGHT NOW! Disconnect it. Period.
How much is “a bit”?
… It´s 5 o clock… What are the chances of chkdsk fixing anything and the chances of it ruining everything?
Depends on the company. I did a bit of searching and it goes from a couple hundred to a couple thousands dollars :S
Thanks for checking that up… I don´t really have a thousand dollars lying around though…
I’ve never seen chkdsk fix / recover a drive. It might recover data from a handful of bad sectors, but your drive seems beyond repair. Any I/O you do on it, is likely to do more damage.
So now on just use google code or github as back up for everything. Everybody wins.
このたびはご愁傷さまでございます
This almost happened once for me. I was most afraid to lose all my documents actually.
With you as an immigrant in Japan, that should be difficult too, depending on what you have in paper form.
When this “almost happened” to me, I deleted the whole partition table somehow, but I found a tool that could restore it.
On the way, in the same package there was a tool that looks at a HDD and restores every file by looking at the length and stuff. The catch is it doesnt know its name or type.
So it names everything like file0001.dat
HDD recovery costs much 1000+
overall this is now about philosophy. “In the face of disaster there is opportunity for renewal”
Take it as a chance grow stronger instead of weaker
[quote]overall this is now about philosophy. “In the face of disaster there is opportunity for renewal”
Take it as a chance grow stronger instead of weaker
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I can guarantee you that it’s true. Right now below my feets there’s 2 HDDs that suffered from this before. Works lost, Music lost, Movie lost, everything lost. I lost motivation to touch my PC (although it worked) for a week. However as soon as I install new OS, new applications, new configs, I come to new spirit like finding new life and start to code something again. Yes it should be avoided but when it happens, think positive.
I can guarantee you that it’s true. Right now below my feets there’s 2 HDDs that suffered from this before. Works lost, Music lost, Movie lost, everything lost. I lost motivation to touch my PC (although it worked) for a week. However as soon as I install new OS, new applications, new configs, I come to new spirit like finding new life and start to code something again. Yes it should be avoided but when it happens, think positive.
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ありがとうございます。
Legal documents and stuff is all on paper and I didn´t have any other important documents on it (I bought it 2 days before I went to Japan), so that´s no problem. Rewriting the game I had in progress is also only gonna take a fraction of the time it took until now… The only thing I´ve really lost is time. I had thousands of hours worths of code, game saves and funny 4chan pictures on that HD (and, well, a 2TB hard drive that´s a lot more expensive now after the price boom). The other 800GBs were just padding, definitely not anime.
Ugh. So it might take a month to rewrite the game I was working on, but you know how you start doubting your own ideas after having a long time to think them through. I have a hard time keeping my motivation up as it is, I don´t need this kind of blow…
But it´s just so unfair! People are abusing their hard drives in ways I´d never imagine! At least I had everything important on both my computer and my external HD! What are the chances of BOTH breaking down at the same time?!
I called ASUS support today. They still have my computer, and considering how slow they have been I´m hoping they haven´t formatted the drive for testing yet, so they might be nice enough to just zip my workspace folder and mail it to me. They didn´t have an English speaking person in today though, so they told me to call back tomorrow. I really can´t explain all the circumstances around this in Japanese… ._.
I can guarantee you that it’s true. Right now below my feets there’s 2 HDDs that suffered from this before. Works lost, Music lost, Movie lost, everything lost. I lost motivation to touch my PC (although it worked) for a week. However as soon as I install new OS, new applications, new configs, I come to new spirit like finding new life and start to code something again. Yes it should be avoided but when it happens, think positive.
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I feel pretty much like that at the moment…
So, lesson of the day: Don´t take 4 hour walks in Converse shoes. My feet hurts. xd
Now if you´ll excuse me I´ve got an Apple Store to turn upside-down.
Not to mention if you are a freak that listening to FLAC
We call it’s an urban legend/mystery in my techinal study. Not even a single diode pair in world that same. A pair of capacitor can have (almost) same farad but not they’re just not same. I had two exactly same circuits for assignment, one run one not, everything fine (and same), bring it to senior, nobody know what wrong.
Maybe they own a masochist one? :o
Meh, Apple store trip cancelled. 5 minutes after I posted that I heard thunder followed by a ridiculously loud sound of rain on the roof.
Me: “I´m going out!”
God: “Oh, no, you´re not.”
Me: “=___=”
I guess this is what´s called the rain period…
Lol, yeah. xd
And FLAC is overrated, but a lot of people insist on them. At least they don´t do any harm… xd
Seems you’re overdosed of getting trolled. Sometimes it not works as it look. You didn’t put your HDD next to refrigerator, AC turbine or 100 Mwatt amplified speakers right?
New fate/zero episode, haven’t had time to watch it yet. Where do you guys watch it from? I usually just stream from http://www.1channel.ch/tv-2728255-FateZero/season-2-episode-5 putlocker/sockshare links.
わたしたちはこのフォーラムに日本語をはじめてはなすか。
日本語を一年間べんきょうしました。
Yeah, I feel kind of trolled. Concerning the hard drive, it was stored in a wooden cupboard around 3 meters away from the nearest electrical device (with the nearest one being a light bulb). I don´t have a single magnet in my room either. From the errors I got I´m pretty sure it´s a mechanical problem that occured while I brought it to my friend´s place. It was wrapped in a blanket in a computer bag and couldn´t move around. Sigh.
私はまだ終わってないアニメがあまり好きじゃない。まあ、今何も見えないけど。。。Appleのバカ!!!
むあはははははは！ 日本語の侵略だ！
Lol. “Riven´s revenge” becomes 「リベンス リベンジ」 (Ribensu ribenji) in katakana.
While professional HDD recovery will set you back several hundred, I had good results with off-the-shelf HDD recovery tools for only about £50. It’d be worth looking into if you have data that’s not super critical but would be super annoying if you lost it.
Obviously don’t go this route if you want to try a professional recovery, as it’ll likely hose any chances of that.
Would that be some kind of physical tool (lol, as if) or just a non-free program? For now I think I´m just gonna call ASUS tomorrow (still a super slim chance there) and then wait for my laptop so I can actually do stuff with that stupid HD.
It was just a commercial bit of software that’d run some kind of super low-level scan of the disk and try and piece together files from the fragments it could find. Results are probably hugely variable depending on exactly how your HDD got hosed, but it picked up a whole bunch of stuff after chdsk wasn’t able to.
I’d give you a link, but it was many years ago so I have no idea what it was called I’m afraid. I’m sure there’s equivalent ones out there.