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Posted by waXology on Mar-20-2003 09:34:

Lost it all, again!!! FFS

yet again my i have lost all my files and music etc.. this time it wasnt my fault

came home last night and my screen was blank with the little flashing thing in the top left hand of the screen, tried resetting numerous times but it wouldnt boot, every now and then it would boot but u would only be able to use windows for a little while before it hung, but it wasnt the OS it was like the computer couldnt find the things to run once you gave it a command!

anyway this arvo it got worse and when you tried to boot it gives you "Boot disck failure" etc....

so yeah i lost all my music and eveything!!

damn computers!

Posted by Psygnosis on Mar-20-2003 09:47:

Your computer might have AIDs, do you have Norton Anti-Virus, or your PC has too many porn. J/K

Uhh if i were you i would get the newest windows and use the System Restore feature. But other than that you should get a new Mother Board.

We can all still burn songs for you.

Posted by SQ-K on Mar-20-2003 09:49:

man, that sucks. i really feel for you

Posted by JayKuE on Mar-20-2003 10:09:

mm. try removing the hard disk, and using it as slave on another comp, just to see whether there is still anything left on it? to see whether its readable?.. or mmm. better yet, have ya tried using a boot disk?

Posted by OLi_A on Mar-20-2003 10:16:

ouch man
roll around a bit
you'll be alright

Posted by bassaholix on Mar-20-2003 10:20:

Dood BACKUP is imperative.. i went to TAFE, even they taught me that...

Posted by webmeister on Mar-20-2003 12:29:

that does indeed suck nuts

what brand of hard-drive was it? IBM Deathstar? Or a Seagate Barracuda?

Posted by Romp on Mar-20-2003 12:31:

dude I'm pretty sure you could save it.

Get a computer techy friend to transfer your HD into another PC, boot up on that pc using the existing HD and have your HD as the secondary drive and you can probably access it.

Posted by waXology on Mar-20-2003 12:31:

quote:
Originally posted by webmeister
that does indeed suck nuts

what brand of hard-drive was it? IBM Deathstar? Or a Seagate Barracuda?

Fujitsu piece of crap! lol

how long are HDD meant to last? the pc is on 24/7 and never gets turned off and rarely gets reset

Posted by escee on Mar-20-2003 14:04:

Wax complain to fushitsu see what they say. They made some dodgy hard drives a while back which had a huge failure rate. Might be able to get a replacement or something...

Posted by Sid on Mar-20-2003 14:52:

shit so sorry to hear that, I got alot of music if your interested Cam, drop me a line

Posted by Hyperdimension on Mar-20-2003 22:40:

quote:
Originally posted by escee
Wax complain to fushitsu see what they say. They made some dodgy hard drives a while back which had a huge failure rate. Might be able to get a replacement or something...

hehehe I think the point is that he lost the contents.
Hardware is easily replaceable.

Personal files like your digital photos cannot be replaced if you didn't make a backup onto another hard disk or CD.

Music files could somewhat be obtained again by copying others people's entire collections.

Posted by escee on Mar-20-2003 23:28:

yeah but if you can get a new hard drive out of them then that might make you feel better.

and maybe if you argue enough you could get them to fork out for some data recovery guy *shrug*

Posted by Master_Yoda on Mar-21-2003 03:43:

Dude correct me if i'm wrong but hasn't this happened to you before??

If ur going to 5am at the Room any time or to PvD i'd be willing to burn u a few mp3 cds.

Posted by DJ Dowlz on Mar-21-2003 04:10:

I really feel for you. After losing a 30gb "deathstar" (which fortunately only contained my OS), I decided to do the smart thing and spend $240 on a Thermaltake Xaser II 5000 case. The best investment I've made. This thing's as quiet as anything, has a temperature monitoring device, CPU fan control and 5 case fans. Now my HDDs run at room temperature, whereas they used to be so hot that you could fry an egg on them.

http://www.thermaltake.com/products/cases/5000a.htm

Mmmmm, steel cases are hella cool (mine didn't come with the side panel though)

Mmmmmm, did anyone mention 5 case fans?

BTW, this is my first post in *ages*

Posted by Pointy on Mar-21-2003 05:22:

quote:
Originally posted by DJ Dowlz
BTW, this is my first post in *ages*

Good for you mate!

Posted by djway on Mar-22-2003 08:58:

Re: Lost it all, again!!! FFS

quote:
Originally posted by waXology
yet again my i have lost all my files and music etc.. this time it wasnt my fault

came home last night and my screen was blank with the little flashing thing in the top left hand of the screen, tried resetting numerous times but it wouldnt boot, every now and then it would boot but u would only be able to use windows for a little while before it hung, but it wasnt the OS it was like the computer couldnt find the things to run once you gave it a command!

anyway this arvo it got worse and when you tried to boot it gives you "Boot disck failure" etc....

so yeah i lost all my music and eveything!!

damn computers!

Fucking sorry to hear it man. PM me, if you live round my way I'll do my best for you. It doesn't sound too good, but a geeks eyes/thoughts on trying 2 fix it can't hurt. WHen you turn the computer on does the HDD get detected @ all? can you hear it spinning up?

--djway