Just lost a drive

[Juice Box]

got the old "click of death" on my 200gig storage drive last night....too late to backup the stuff I wanted to keep

100+gigs of music + 80 gigs of video.....gone

 

[mitmot]

what brand?

 

[leftyman]

bye bye pron

 

[Juice Box]

Originally posted by: mitmot

what brand?

WDD...it's only a few months old too.....still under warranty, but that is not the point

 

[So]

<plays taps>

I've never lost data due to a dead drive. Backup schemes are worth it.

Wish I could find a way to make ghost automatically overwrite the last changefile though.

 

[mitmot]

Originally posted by: Juice Box

Originally posted by: mitmot

what brand?

WDD...it's only a few months old too.....still under warranty, but that is not the point

oh, i figured it was a maxtor

 

[Juice Box]

Originally posted by: So


<plays taps>

I've never lost data due to a dead drive. Backup schemes are worth it.

Wish I could find a way to make ghost automatically overwrite the last changefile though.

i have an SSF case, and a backup scheme really isint an option due to space Just wish i had some kinda warning to grab the stuff that I know I will never be able to find again

 

[So]

Originally posted by: Juice Box

Originally posted by: So


<plays taps>

I've never lost data due to a dead drive. Backup schemes are worth it.

Wish I could find a way to make ghost automatically overwrite the last changefile though.

i have an SSF case, and a backup scheme really isint an option due to space Just wish i had some kinda warning to grab the stuff that I know I will never be able to find again

DVD backup?

 

[Juice Box]

Originally posted by: So

Originally posted by: Juice Box

Originally posted by: So


<plays taps>

I've never lost data due to a dead drive. Backup schemes are worth it.

Wish I could find a way to make ghost automatically overwrite the last changefile though.

i have an SSF case, and a backup scheme really isint an option due to space Just wish i had some kinda warning to grab the stuff that I know I will never be able to find again

DVD backup?

I guess I will consider that from now on....once i get my music back..somehow

 

[Homerboy]

no way to have second box in house?... I run nightly backups across LAN to server in basement. Backs up incremental changes to important directories and such

 

[AdamSnow]

freeze it.

 

[Juice Box]

Originally posted by: AdamSnow
freeze it.

did that last night...this morning it worked for a few min, but has since stopped spinning completley

 

[Juice Box]

Originally posted by: Homerboy
no way to have second box in house?... I run nightly backups across LAN to server in basement. Backs up incremental changes to important directories and such

eh, in a dorm room...would only cause more heat

 

[Steve]

Change PCB?

 

[KeyserSoze]

Sux dude. Sorry to hear.

 

[Juice Box]

Originally posted by: sm8000
Change PCB?

huh?

 

[AnyMal]

Originally posted by: sm8000
Change PCB?

"Click of death" is resulting from read/write heads touching the platters. Nothing to do with PCB.

 

[Juice Box]

Originally posted by: KeyserSoze
Sux dude. Sorry to hear.

i know.....

 

[GeekDrew]

Originally posted by: AnyMal

Originally posted by: sm8000
Change PCB?

"Click of death" is resulting from read/write heads touching the platters. Nothing to do with PCB.

One hard drive I worked on was making sounds like the click of death... and it started working properly with a swapped PCB. I don't know WHAT the noise actually was, but I'm assuming it wasn't the heads touching the platters. Nonetheless, I backed the data up, and ditched the drive.

 

[AnyMal]

Originally posted by: GeekDrew

Originally posted by: AnyMal

Originally posted by: sm8000
Change PCB?

"Click of death" is resulting from read/write heads touching the platters. Nothing to do with PCB.

One hard drive I worked on was making sounds like the click of death... and it started working properly with a swapped PCB. I don't know WHAT the noise actually was, but I'm assuming it wasn't the heads touching the platters. Nonetheless, I backed the data up, and ditched the drive.

<big guess>Maybe when you swapped out the PCB you've bumped it enough that astuck actuator arm became lose enough to move freely again</big guess>

 

[GeekDrew]

Originally posted by: AnyMal

Originally posted by: GeekDrew

Originally posted by: AnyMal

Originally posted by: sm8000
Change PCB?

"Click of death" is resulting from read/write heads touching the platters. Nothing to do with PCB.

One hard drive I worked on was making sounds like the click of death... and it started working properly with a swapped PCB. I don't know WHAT the noise actually was, but I'm assuming it wasn't the heads touching the platters. Nonetheless, I backed the data up, and ditched the drive.

<big guess>Maybe when you swapped out the PCB you've bumped it enough that astuck actuator arm became lose enough to move freely again</big guess>

Doubtful. The problem reappeared when I put the original PCB back.

I don't really know why I didn't think to take it apart and see if I could figure it out, since I threw it away anyway. Oh well...

 

[BigToque]

If your data is really that important to you, take the drive to a data recovery center. It's expensive, but worth it if you value the data.

Besides, the music should be the least of your worries since you do have the original CD's

 

[Merlyn3D]

Hmm....makes me wonder if I should get a backup for my 200GB Seagate storage drive.

 

[Juice Box]

Originally posted by: Stefan
If your data is really that important to you, take the drive to a data recovery center. It's expensive, but worth it if you value the data.

Besides, the music should be the least of your worries since you do have the original CD's

I do?

 

[Future Shock]

If you have a SFF, get an external USB drive for backup of critical stuff. It's expensive, but DVDs just don't hold enough.

Or go the networking route...

FS