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RANT: BEGGINING TO HATE TECHNOLOGY

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BullyCanadian

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WORST TECHNOLOGY EVER FOR ME.

First MONDAY: 120 GIG hard drive dies, IMPORTANT Parent business files gone (not too much of a loss, had most of it backed up) Also goes my 20GB of Mp3's 🙁 (not too bad have backup on my ipod, figure I will paypal and get copypod full and buy new hd and copy back)

So Thursday get new 160 gb Hard drive (the 120 gb had no warranty left) install it all is dandy

Fast forward to today, get my ipod hooked to computer, got my copypod ready. But before I do copypod I think I will just add 12 more songs to my ipod (which had 3986 songs) and transfer the 12 songs over. Ok so I dissconnect my ipod to listen to it while I do some stuff, but what happens, NONE AND I MEAN NONE OF THE SONGS ARE IN THE IPOD. SO I DO A RESTART (MENU+PLAY BOTTON) Doesnt work. STILL DOESNT SEE ANYTHING 🙁 So now i check the settings to see if it says I have 30gb free which would mean it was formatted, but it does not show 30gb free but what it should show the 9gb free. So i decide must be a glitch and rehook it to my computer. THEN THINGS TURN EVEN WORSE. ITUNES STARTS AND FORMATS, AND STARTS COPYING WHATEVER MUSIC I HAVE LEFT ON MY COMPUTER. SO MY ENTIRE 4000 song LIBRARY I WAS TRYING TO BACKUP GONE GONE GONE FOREVER. I HATE TECHNOLOGY AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH


ANd some of those mp3s date back to 1998, ahhhh the memories GONE FOREVER

I feel like crying.
 
That has happened to me twice

30gig drive gone (my fault)
40gig drive gone (not my fault)

I am back to around 20 gigs now...
 
Backup, backup, backup. I have been in your shoes. They hurt like hell. 🙁

Sorry to hear about your stuff blowing up. In the future, you'll make backups 1x/week.
 
Originally posted by: MichaelD
Backup, backup, backup. I have been in your shoes. They hurt like hell. 🙁

Sorry to hear about your stuff blowing up. In the future, you'll make backups 1x/week.
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I know i shouldnt, but I feel soo depressed loosing all this, it was like everything I had, 🙁 I feel soooooo low right now cause of this 🙁 I dont know why its just material thing, but still still, and those mp3s made me feel like I had them forever and some special songs for my family and stuff, ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
 
If it wasn't for technology, you wouldn't have had that collection in the first place. Just a thought, but..I don't know what Id do if I lost all of my mp3s.
 
Technology is fine...except it's "created" by point haired business types who can't unplug their coffee maker without help. So we get crummy quality products that are rushed out the door to make a few more dollars for rich board members.

My college has both engineering and business schools...and sometimes I'll be around some business people (I'm an engineer) and I'll get depressed thinking about how these dumbasses are the ones who will be in charge of the "next generation" of products. This whole technology problem isn't new, it's the same damn problem we've been having for a hundred years. Doing it right is always, ALWAYS behind making a lot of money off of it.

You think you're hard drive manufacturer gives half a sh!t that you lost tons of data due to their crappy quality control? I mean, it was 120GB, it couldn't have been that old. But no, you bought it, they have their money, whatever else happens is not their problem.

Don't hate technology, hate greedy business people.
 
Originally posted by: loki8481
back that sh!t up. dvd burners are your friend. so is RAID1.
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That too. After my brand new Western Digital hard drive failed after a month, I got two brand new Seagates and put them in RAID 1. Windows does an OK job at that, BTW, so no real need for a RAID controller if you don't want one.
 
Originally posted by: Rainsford
Technology is fine...except it's "created" by point haired business types who can't unplug their coffee maker without help. So we get crummy quality products that are rushed out the door to make a few more dollars for rich board members.

My college has both engineering and business schools...and sometimes I'll be around some business people (I'm an engineer) and I'll get depressed thinking about how these dumbasses are the ones who will be in charge of the "next generation" of products. This whole technology problem isn't new, it's the same damn problem we've been having for a hundred years. Doing it right is always, ALWAYS behind making a lot of money off of it.

You think you're hard drive manufacturer gives half a sh!t that you lost tons of data due to their crappy quality control? I mean, it was 120GB, it couldn't have been that old. But no, you bought it, they have their money, whatever else happens is not their problem.

Don't hate technology, hate greedy business people.
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:beer::beer:
 
Originally posted by: Taggart
Ya know it's "beginning" not "beggining"

Unless that is some fruity Canadian spelling😉
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Add this type of person to my list (See my RANT post) "Spelling and Grammar NAZIS on a message board".

I mean was it really necessary?
 
You know it's all Apple's fault with the complicated copy protection and crap they have to get music on the iPod. They should have made it so that music can be copied back and forth between the iPod and your computer but instead they have some crap where it "synchronizes" with your computer. Life would have been so much easier if they let you just use windows explorer to transfer non-protected music files back and forth.
 
Originally posted by: MichaelD
Backup, backup, backup. I have been in your shoes. They hurt like hell. 🙁

Sorry to hear about your stuff blowing up. In the future, you'll make backups 1x/week.
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Yep. I lost a few gig of music (Had an OLD backup) and about a years worth of family pics. I'd gladly trade in every MP3 I have for those pictures. 🙁

A DVD burner was the best investment I've ever made.
 
Originally posted by: sxr7171
You know it's all Apple's fault with the complicated copy protection and crap they have to get music on the iPod. They should have made it so that music can be copied back and forth between the iPod and your computer but instead they have some crap where it "synchronizes" with your computer. Life would have been so much easier if they let you just use windows explorer to transfer non-protected music files back and forth.
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Solution is to not buy iPods.

Originally posted by: Epoman
Originally posted by: Taggart
Ya know it's "beginning" not "beggining"

Unless that is some fruity Canadian spelling😉
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Add this type of person to my list (See my RANT post) "Spelling and Grammar NAZIS on a message board".

I mean was it really necessary?
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omg i no, spelin iz 4 dummyz
 
Having read about the IPod that was a major complaint I saw--the ease with which you can accidentally delete your entire collection (I don't actually own one and never intended on buying one, but somehow I ended up reading user comments on it).
 
I feel bad because you probably spent alot of time getting the id3 tags just right...I got my iPod about a month ago and I spend about an hour every night just trying to get all my mp3s formatted and in the right playlist etc....just make sure you don't set itunes to sync and copy files over to the iPod manually from now on.

bummer for your loss
 
My 320GB RAID went corrupt, and windows wouldn't detect the drives. When I tried to format them, the drives would freeze the format utility(bootup ones).
I ran data recovery software on a good hard drive, and it was able to detect the damaged drives. I ended up recovering 95% of my data.

It took me over 30hrs of headaches and over a week total of everything I try going wrong until I've found the solution. If your drive is formatted, the data should still be on there. Run data recovery software such as R-Studio, and you should be able to recover your MP3s.
 
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