Commander McBride Posted May 14, 2004 Posted May 14, 2004 All I can say is that if this is the absolute worst thing that has ever happened to you, you have led a very charmed life. Very. Yeah, not to down on you, but when I read the thread topic, I was expecting a story of financial ruin or something... Still what happened to ya does suck. Just remember to back up all your important files ever month or so from now on... Yeah, while it does suck, I too thought it was something much worse. I thought maybe your wife had left you and taken everything or something. If this is the worst thing that's ever happenned to you, try getting kicked out of school for something your stupid friends did, getting hit by a car while riding your bike, or totalling your dad's car. (all of which have happenned to me.) Trust me, I've lost all my data, and that is nothing in comparison.
JsARCLIGHT Posted May 14, 2004 Posted May 14, 2004 Oh for the love of... Everyone loses something computer related every once in a while, they are computers. They crash. You lose things. Much like other people I came into this thread expecting to console a fellow member over the death of a parent, loved one, child or the loss of a home or other major piece of real world something. Dust your frickin' self off and get over it. My business' entire system went off into the black void during our office move, that caused my company thousands of dollars of revenue loss to our bottom line, we lost months of very, very important project work and I had to pay out of my own pocket to rebuild most of it before our darn business insurance kicked in. THAT is a serious catastrophe. Not meaning to harsh on you (well... yes I am) but you lost a bunch of crap. Whining on this scale over a hard drive full of rips, boots, DL'ed free stuff and pictures is a little melodramatic, don't you think? Call me when something serious happens like someone dies, you lose your job or your house burns down.
Nilrem Posted May 14, 2004 Posted May 14, 2004 sounds nasty It's one of my nightmares, losing all my data due to an error or disk failure.*. erm i used PC Inspector File Recovery with a fair bit of success a few times on drives that have accidently been formated over (and on flash memory cards, which is the main reason i got it originally). You may need to do it a few files/directories at a time. I've also heard a lot of good things about it from other users on a UK computer forum I visit. I beleive it's a free download from here. If you use any file recovery software there are two things you must remember (might already have been mentioned). 1: Install them to a drive other than the one you are trying to recover (don't let anything use the driver/partition with the "lost" information on it, especially defrag programmes etc). 2: Recover the files to another drive or partition. One bit of "after the horse has bolted" advise i'd give is possibly look into secondary hard drives as a backup media. I personally have a couple of drives in my machine that are only connected to the power/data when i am preparing to make a major change in the computer (formatting a drive or something similar), as they make great fast/easy backup devices for emergencies (at least in the short term). This is in addition to most of my other data being backed up to CDR (the only thing that's stopping me from getting a DVDRW is the imminent arrival of duel layer writers). *I'm actually more than a little paranoid about it, mainly because I moderate a large U.K. computer forum and have seen so many "my drive has failed" threads.
GobotFool Posted May 14, 2004 Posted May 14, 2004 It could have been worse, much worse, you could have lost your very important term paper, which 1/3 of your final grade depended upon
Legioss Posted May 14, 2004 Posted May 14, 2004 (edited) I've been running the same installation of Windows 98 since fall 2001. I use it several hours a day. I've run setup over it to help recovery, but never formatted and reinstalled for 2 1/2 years. It's actually fun when the OS does stop working cause I get an excuse to run Lindows Live. Edited May 14, 2004 by Legioss
Nilrem Posted May 14, 2004 Posted May 14, 2004 It could have been worse, much worse, you could have lost your very important term paper, which 1/3 of your final grade depended upon don't remind me. back when the IBM GXP 75's were living up to their nicknames (Deathstars), i must have seen at least half a dozen people who were in deep trouble because their only copy of important coursework was lost in a drive crash.
GobotFool Posted May 14, 2004 Posted May 14, 2004 It could have been worse, much worse, you could have lost your very important term paper, which 1/3 of your final grade depended upon don't remind me. back when the IBM GXP 75's were living up to their nicknames (Deathstars), i must have seen at least half a dozen people who were in deep trouble because their only copy of important coursework was lost in a drive crash. Thats why ya always keep a printed copy around
Noriko Takaya Posted May 14, 2004 Posted May 14, 2004 I lost every file that pertained to my website about three years ago and had to start over from scratch. I even had them backed up on two discs, and I ended up losing those. So I had to remake evrything. So I know your pain. Get yourself an external USB2 hard drive, as someone else here mentioned. Then you can load all of your stuff onto it and disconnect it for future reference. It was one of the best things I ever bought. Definitely worth the money.
wolfx Posted May 14, 2004 Posted May 14, 2004 I lost every file that pertained to my website about three years ago and had to start over from scratch. I even had them backed up on two discs, and I ended up losing those. So I had to remake evrything. So I know your pain.Get yourself an external USB2 hard drive, as someone else here mentioned. Then you can load all of your stuff onto it and disconnect it for future reference. It was one of the best things I ever bought. Definitely worth the money. Just get a durable drive and do not DROP IT....like my housemate did with mine. I was so pissed then. He paid to replace it....but omg...all the data in it....I felt quite depressed for a week.
Akilae Posted May 14, 2004 Posted May 14, 2004 *shrug*... this is why I only have a 30 gig "Deathstar"... the thought of 120+ gigs of stuff, all riding on the fact that the HD head floats with pinpoit precision between the storage mediums is a bit unnerving... not to mention MTBF for HDs are really getting a tad bit short. A small HD would encourage one to burn more, accumulate less. Now if games would just stop ballooning in terms of install size, I wouldn't have to rotate my games in and out of the HD :-p (For a while I only installed stuff that I needed to play, then uninstalled right after... try to imagine installing HL+CS right before every single clan tourney... the uninstalling when the match was over. wow, back in the 6 gig days....) oh, for those that do CD/DVD backups... remember to rotate your medium every 1-5 years, depending on climate and storage conditions. All in all, it's not the end of the world. You can find almost anything on P2P nowadays, although I still haven't found a replacement for that uncensored Ichig... ahem... that rare footage that got wiped out when my 6 gig crashed
Chewie Posted May 14, 2004 Posted May 14, 2004 I did the same crap two days ago with a buddy's comp. frakking Windows XP caused it. 45 gigs of various stuff, gone. *POOF* Thanks Microsoft, we needed that. In case you're wondering, we had also selected one drive and it formatted another. Seems to be a miscommunication between the BIOS and the install program, causing it to read the drives in the wrong order. When it thinks it formatting C: it's ruining your life over on D:.
SupremeKaioshin Posted May 14, 2004 Posted May 14, 2004 (edited) ALWAYS BACK UP YOUR DATA BEFORE YOU DO ANYTHING MAJOR WITH YOUR COMPUTER. Words to live by Edited May 14, 2004 by SupremeKaioshin
F360° Posted May 14, 2004 Posted May 14, 2004 few,, it's not that bad,, but you should alteast double check, triple check before formating the drive that's sharing the partition of another. i format my c drive from time to time with d, c, and e partitions and they all went out find. But of course you should backup all youre important stuff just incase. I have around 400gb of data, anime, movie, mangas, encodings, some porn, and all kinds of other stuff in my system. But I back up when i can. I even went and brought a DVD burner because burning out 4.5g in cdr just takes too long. Is around 2,000 cdr worth of anime , alot? If one day all the data from my 3 harddrives (400 gb) disapeared then I'll be bumbed and very sad , but I'll just start over again. It happen before on my 120gb.
EXO Posted May 14, 2004 Posted May 14, 2004 (edited) hmmm... is this a poll? Cuz I voted... I don't give a sh*t... Edited May 14, 2004 by >EXO<
Bloodcat Posted May 14, 2004 Posted May 14, 2004 Heh.. Guy fails to backup his HD, loses a bunch of anime porn and MP3s. This is bad? The only thing that would be bad is if people gave him this stuff back... For all we know, he is just too lazy to use Kazaa and pirate the way normal people do... Sorry, count me as part of the "I could give a damn" club on this one.
SupremeKaioshin Posted May 14, 2004 Posted May 14, 2004 If I had tons of anime porn on my HDD, no way would I send it out to have it reclaimed. *lol*
kanata67 Posted May 14, 2004 Posted May 14, 2004 back up everything whenever you can. More importantly... date your back-ups. I have sooo many back-ups of back-ups I have spools of stuff I hope I never have to sort through. I have four hard drives in my pc now and am going to be upgrading my os hard drive after we finish moving in to the new house. Better believe everything is going to be backed up. My only worry is the stuff that somehow got on my pc that is larger than I can get on a cd like "the dark side of oz". I still don't know how I got a 1gig movie on my machine as I sure didn't download it with dial up... heck... I don't even have a modem in that pc
SupremeKaioshin Posted May 14, 2004 Posted May 14, 2004 I did the same crap two days ago with a buddy's comp. frakking Windows XP caused it. 45 gigs of various stuff, gone. *POOF* Thanks Microsoft, we needed that.In case you're wondering, we had also selected one drive and it formatted another. Seems to be a miscommunication between the BIOS and the install program, causing it to read the drives in the wrong order. When it thinks it formatting C: it's ruining your life over on D:. Don't blame your mistake on MS
dna Posted May 14, 2004 Posted May 14, 2004 A RAID array would be an easy way to help out with this - don't even have to back stuff up then, system redundency.
Blaine23 Posted May 14, 2004 Posted May 14, 2004 I'm still trying to figure out what the basketball players have to do with all of this...
mpchi Posted May 15, 2004 Posted May 15, 2004 While most of you guys gave great suggestions on how to retrieve data or backing up data, I think CaptRico is more concerned about finding Macross 7 & Outlaw Star theme songs. Sorry to hear your loss, just be more careful next time.
SupremeKaioshin Posted May 15, 2004 Posted May 15, 2004 I'm still trying to figure out what the basketball players have to do with all of this... Jesus...you don't watch sports at all? You guys are straight up geeks for sure. Those basketball pics of my Lakers are going to be talked about for ages. Miracle shot by Fisher.
SupremeKaioshin Posted May 15, 2004 Posted May 15, 2004 The spurs guy looks like he's in agony. You would too if that was you guarding Derek with 0.4 seconds left on the clock and watching the shortest guy in the court just put your team in a series hole.
yellowlightman Posted May 15, 2004 Posted May 15, 2004 I'm still trying to figure out what the basketball players have to do with all of this... Jesus...you don't watch sports at all? You guys are straight up geeks for sure. Those basketball pics of my Lakers are going to be talked about for ages. Miracle shot by Fisher. Er, the question was what does basketball have to do with this thread. Everyone now: "Absolutely Nothing!"
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