Hard drive crashed, had full access to all files from dead hard drive, then I blew it

[PoPPeR]

Well to quickly summarize...

Woke up this morning, hard drive was making the weird clickity noise of doom. I immediately thought about the poll "how many of you have had your hard drive die" where I voted "not me!" or whatever. Anyways, i try some stuff, nothing works, then I insert a boot disk, try to format, it tells me my disk is unusable. I go to circuit city where I get a Western Digital JB1200 (120 gig 8mb cache special edition) for only 80$ out the door! (they pmed Fry's after rebate price). I load WinXP onto the new hard drive, then plug in my old one. At this time I had full access to the files on the second partition of the hard drive that died (i guess only the first half died or something), which is a good thing since I keep all my storage files on the second half anyways. My dumbass decides to convert everything to NTFS before I move all the files to my new 120 gig drive, and in the process somethign screws up and my second partition dies... Then somehow formatting the first partition WORKS now, so I might have a working 40 gig hard drive again...

This thread has no point but I feel retarded since I let over 25 gigs of things I wanted to keep get away from me

 

Ouch, that sucks.

 

[Ime]

RAID is your friend.

Now if only I can get the money together to afford to set one up for myself.

 

[Eli]

Uh, don't even think about using the drive.

If you do, and you lose whatever was on it.. don't complain about it, you were asking for it.

Nice price on the drive though. Damn, I'm almost tempted to see if I can do that.

 

[PoPPeR]

CircuitCity actaully had 80$ rebates for the drive but I guess they ended a couple days ago, otherwise this would've been free. Fry's/Outpost has a 50$ mail in rebate, which woudl've dropped my price to 30$, but it has to be purchased from Fry's/Outpost.

 

[Balthazar]

....hmmmm, all for the sake of converting it to NTFS....why, prey tell, would you bother converting to anything at all on a presumably dead HDD????

Also, that "possibly working" drive probably won't work for very long, so if you know what's good for you don't put anything of any real importance on there.

 

[FoBoT]

uh, that is ok, just use your backups

what? no backup?

hmm, get copies off your server

um, no server?

oh, well
uh, nevermind

sorry dude

 

[TheBoyBlunder]

Freezer it and try again I guess.

 

[Renob]

My dumbass decides to convert everything to NTFS before I move all the files to my new 120 gig drive,


Shame on you, that was a dumbass move.:disgust:


BTW I do hope you get your data.

 

[Ime]

Originally posted by: TheBoyBlunder
Freezer it and try again I guess.

I say he should burn it, instead!