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Just lost a drive

J

Juice Box

Diamond Member
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 🙁
 
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🙁

what brand?
 
🙁

<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.
 
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.
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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
 
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.
Click to expand...

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
Click to expand...

DVD backup?
 
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.
Click to expand...

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
Click to expand...

DVD backup?
Click to expand...

I guess I will consider that from now on....once i get my music back..somehow 🙁
 
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
 
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
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eh, in a dorm room...would only cause more heat
 
Originally posted by: AnyMal
Originally posted by: sm8000
Change PCB?
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"Click of death" is resulting from read/write heads touching the platters. Nothing to do with PCB.
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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.
 
Originally posted by: GeekDrew
Originally posted by: AnyMal
Originally posted by: sm8000
Change PCB?
Click to expand...

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

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.
Click to expand...

<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>
 
Originally posted by: AnyMal
Originally posted by: GeekDrew
Originally posted by: AnyMal
Originally posted by: sm8000
Change PCB?
Click to expand...

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

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.
Click to expand...

<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>
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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...
 
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 😉
 
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 😉
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I do? 😕
 
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
 
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