Today Is A Good Day To Die...

Infinity · March 2003

<div class="IPBDescription">i feel like dying anyway</div> now i realize how BadMofo must have felt when his hdd crashed... mine has just too, all my progress on ns_containment, all my textures, all my other special mapping projects, all my pr0n (cough), halflife and mods ... im this close to going berserk and take the bloody hdd and use it to break the nose of the guy who sold it to me... western digital is useless

btw, is it very expensive to have some data recovered from a hdd with a malfunction motor?

i heard its possible and i REALLY need to get ns_containment back ... used the past year to create, reshape it, restart it and just overall getting better at mapping

i had so much progress to show, around 20 screenshots of 3 hives, a lot of rooms and a marinespawn...

its sad that i get so frustrated about alot of ones and zeros but still... ive used so much time to create it so its kinda logical that one get sad and angry

Gimpy_Doodly_Doo · March 2003

Man that really sux.
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did the motor go bad, or what happened? explain in more detail. Was it a virus? A surge? What happened?

infi · March 2003

oh man <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/sad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad.gif'> that sucks.... I can't imagine that happening to me... I never had a hdd crash yet and I have all the work of at least the last 5 years on my hdd... that are hundreds if not thousands of maps, models, textures, graphics, sites and other stuff.... I really should do a backup copy once <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/confused.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='confused.gif'>

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a hdd crash usually occurs if the read/write head "crashes" (touches) the hdd discs as far as I know... therefore damaging the disc and the data that's on it... I beleive there are some companies out there that could recover the data but it won't be nowhere near cheap

Infinity · March 2003

i think the upper disc in the hdd is loose and scratching against the reading laser, i dont really know the cause of this, but i have theories

i miss making ns_containment :/

gaggle · March 2003

Aii, that completly sucks. I've been through a few harddisk-losses myself, and.. it never goes well. If the HD is functional, ie. the system can ID it, the data is "just" scrambled, there is technically still hope. There's a program called <a href='http://www.softwarecasa.com' target='_blank'>Easy Recovery 6.0</a> that promises to help you out. I used 5.0 when my server drive died a while back, I think out of 60 gigabytes I recovered a few megabytes. I.. wasn't pleased (well technically I recovered it all, but 99% of it was completly garbled beyond my recovery-capabilities).

Alternativly you can call one of those companies that does data-recovery, but I think their programs eat money to work or something, they're <i>very</i> expensive in my experience. I gasped slightly when I called them back in the day, and promptly hung up.

If the drive isn't readable, do a bit of googling. Your data might even still be on there, without any damage. I read once about a super-hardcore trick of putting a broken harddrive in the freezer for a few hours (!), then putting it straight into a computer and copy over as much data as you can. For the drive, it's a one-way trip, but supposedly the cold can can warp the metal just enough to let the discs spin again. Anyway, essentially I'm just saying "go google on it for a bit".

Zazi · March 2003

If I ever had a HDD crash, my life would be forfeit. Then again I have four HDDs on this computer, and each one has a mirrored backup of it... aka a "RAID." Nonetheless, I would find no point of living any further.

Gaggle: I like how you refer to that technique as a "one way trip." That has been archived in my AIM profile. It's so funny that I was crying... <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'>

Infinity: I feel your pain. I'd march to Western Digital and go postal, short of just dying due to the lack of... of... stuff on my HDDs. May you prosper! And if you do decide to go postal, let me in on it! <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'>

rimj0b_r0dent · March 2003

You kept that stuff for over 5 years? what were your thinking man? Hard Drives don't last forever... If I work on a map for even 1 month and it looks promising I will back it up on a CD.

MessyTreat · March 2003

<img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/sad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad.gif'> backup, backup, backup, backup, backup, backup, backup

I have heard this far too many times to be shocked by it. It is ultimatley frustrating to see people invest so much time into something and not bother to back it up.

I mean really, How long did it take you to DL all that pr0n? And to not have a backup? That is just plain sad.

Dude, Sucks to be you right now, Really sucks that we may never see this map of which you speak.

I hope it all works out for you. And I guess you will start to preach to others the value of having a backup of important data.

MST

BigD · March 2003

My roommates hard drive went on him last fall. In that case, it was only the motor. A friend of mine (and uber hardware guy) plugged it into his old slow computer. After about 2 minutes it acually started reading the hd! My roommates was too fast and didn't give it time to detect! Fortunately, all important data was saved (SAVE TEH pR0N!) and the disk itself was still under warranty. Actually saved his 10 page english essay.

So if you find you simply can't detect... try finding some old pentium 2 and plug it in that.

masterswordman · March 2003

The fact that most people who never had failures never back their stuff up, I mean just today I was working on a map and hammer crashed, losing 5 hours of work is not phun

chaosripper · March 2003

funny coincidence, since i had 2 identical hdd's and they both crashed simultaniously with the same error (smart failure or something). then the next day my brother's hdd was making funny sounds (can crash any day now) talk about bad luck.... <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/sad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad.gif'>

Parasite · March 2003

I feel for you man. Ive lucked out and bought maxtor HDD every time (Nearly got a western Digital once...whew)
A freind of mine on another forum just had the same problem with a WD HDD...whats with that? I thought WD was good...?
Go with Maxtor next time bro...Good luck on the data recovery and burn valuables to CD every other month at the least.

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