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| zokissima |
| quote: | Originally posted by Orko
Another option: buy a good drive, the exact same model, and do a disc swap. You have to open it up, and take the platters out of the old drive, and put them into the new one. It's very hard and extremely tricky, but it could save a lot of money if you do it right. |
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First thing I'd do, if its not being recognized at all, check that its even getting power. Boot to your BIOS and see if its recognized as a drive.
Second, stick it in an antistatic bag, and stick it in the freezer for a cuple of hours and try it again. As drives spin, they can create a lot of frictional heat and other sources of heat from the computer can sometimes (but very rarely really) cause allignment issues. Freezing it will shrink the plates inside, and may give you an hour or two of working time if you're lucky to back up your data.
Otherwise, you're up creek without a paddle. Be prepared to pay quite a bit from a data recovery exercise. Chances are, it will be so expensive, it will hardly be worth your time. That money you could just save, and sit there and download the stuff again :(
Let us know how it goes, I'm curious to see.. |
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| malek |
Best option is RAID mirroring, this is done by using two exact hard drives. Both will have the same data at any time, if one of them fails, then all is not lost.
You can go and buy two more drives, copy stuff from the remaining drive and pursue your life.
The chance of both drives malfunctionning at once is extremly low, you have more chance of having your computer destroyed by fire than both stoping at once. |
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| Invasionmix |
| quote: | Originally posted by malek
Best option is RAID mirroring, this is done by using two exact hard drives. Both will have the same data at any time, if one of them fails, then all is not lost.
You can go and buy two more drives, copy stuff from the remaining drive and pursue your life.
The chance of both drives malfunctionning at once is extremly low, you have more chance of having your computer destroyed by fire than both stoping at once. |
Yeah a RAID 1 or RAID 5 array would be one of the safest ways to protect your data, servers all have their hard drives in RAIDs. |
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| jchung52 |
| thanks for the tips/info. ill try some of these things after tomorrow once my exam is done. right now i have no time to think about this issue but it will all sink in tomorrow |
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| Ania_xox |
| quote: | Originally posted by DigiNut
How many stories of lost data must people hear before they'll learn to make backups? |
Wow that's so helpful
I'm sure that post turned his life around
... and also made him feel like lol
I feel for you buddy... been there.
take it to future shop... I got more than half of my stuff retrieved when this happened to me last year
if you were "logged on" as a personal user, then they should be able to recover any of the stuff under "My documents" ... pics, notes, music whatever
xoxo :( |
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| Invasionmix |
| quote: | Originally posted by Ania_xox
Wow that's so helpful
I'm sure that post turned his life around
... and also made him feel like lol
I feel for you buddy... been there.
take it to future shop... I got more than half of my stuff retrieved when this happened to me last year
if you were "logged on" as a personal user, then they should be able to recover any of the stuff under "My documents" ... pics, notes, music whatever
xoxo :( |
future shop won't be able to do much, only real chance of getting everything back is at a data recovery center, it's about 5-600 bucks for like a 320 GB hard drive, and there's a 15-20% chance it won't work. This is what a customer of mine told me, and one of the best places in North America is located on Bloor St, Toronto. |
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| exstasie |
| quote: | Originally posted by Ania_xox
Wow that's so helpful
I'm sure that post turned his life around
... and also made him feel like lol
I feel for you buddy... been there.
take it to future shop... I got more than half of my stuff retrieved when this happened to me last year
if you were "logged on" as a personal user, then they should be able to recover any of the stuff under "My documents" ... pics, notes, music whatever
xoxo :( |
The worst thing is when your hard drive and backup hard drive die pretty much simultaneously...
NOw that is just bad luck! |
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| Invasionmix |
| quote: | Originally posted by exstasie
The worst thing is when your hard drive and backup hard drive die pretty much simultaneously...
NOw that is just bad luck! |
lol it's kinda common, cause people buy two hard drives at once from the same batch and run them together, and yeah they would die within a couple days of each other. But yeah just total bad luck if it happens to you lol |
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| Kamka |
| My stepfather just returned from Europe today after a three-month trip there. I've only lived with him for three months earlier this year, and before that I haven't lived with him for over a year. Now that he's back it's the biggest cause currently in my life for being depressed and also for going to bed crying. :*( I can't wait till I go to bed, can hug my teddy bear and cry my eyes out. |
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| Invasionmix |
| quote: | Originally posted by Kamka
My stepfather just returned from Europe today after a three-month trip there. I've only lived with him for three months earlier this year, and before that I haven't lived with him for over a year. Now that he's back it's the biggest cause currently in my life for being depressed and also for going to bed crying. :*( I can't wait till I go to bed, can hug my teddy bear and cry my eyes out. |
... I think the OP was referring to hard drives... |
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| smuncky |
| quote: | Originally posted by Kamka
My stepfather just returned from Europe today after a three-month trip there. I've only lived with him for three months earlier this year, and before that I haven't lived with him for over a year. Now that he's back it's the biggest cause currently in my life for being depressed and also for going to bed crying. :*( I can't wait till I go to bed, can hug my teddy bear and cry my eyes out. |
i think u nailed the problem that the OP is having. |
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| exstasie |
| quote: | Originally posted by Kamka
My stepfather just returned from Europe today after a three-month trip there. I've only lived with him for three months earlier this year, and before that I haven't lived with him for over a year. Now that he's back it's the biggest cause currently in my life for being depressed and also for going to bed crying. :*( I can't wait till I go to bed, can hug my teddy bear and cry my eyes out. |
Poor Kamka.
I always find putting on some nice EDM tunes makes things a bit better. |
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