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I have irreconcilable problems with my remaining hard drive. It's basically deleting pictures now, which has sent me into all new stratospheres of pissed off that it's affecting my life adversely. If I lost a picture that I was doing for one of you guys, I might just actually punch through the monitor. So! I'll be going to get a new one today. I may be back later, or I may just need the rest of today to set it up and cool off. Sorry for the inconvenience, I wasn't going to be very much fun today anyway.

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Added:	10 years, 10 months ago 19 Jun 2013 23:48 CEST

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doomcup

10 years, 10 months ago

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Aw, that sucks! What is it about this month and hard drives so far?

Good luck with getting a new drive and getting stuff off the old one!

ScottySkunk

10 years, 10 months ago

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ouch. Sorry to hear that. hope your computer has em in the temp files or something.

Oogzie

10 years, 10 months ago

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Amazing how fast Technical issues can get ya from 0 to choking a kitten levels of rage.

Eviscerator

10 years, 10 months ago

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Take it easy and just take the day to chill. Tech issues are infuriating, we know.

tnick123

10 years, 10 months ago

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Wow. Two of my fav artists are getting their computers messed up.... I think the gremlins are attacking you and Sen >.<

Rakaziel

10 years, 10 months ago

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Good Luck

KNIFE

10 years, 10 months ago

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It's deleting pictures on it's own?! WOW!
If you ever find out what's wrong let us know
cause I sure want to be on the lookout for THAT
problem! O.O Good luck with it!!

Norithics

10 years, 10 months ago

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@ KNIFE

It has to do with the operating system being unstable and the hard drive being old, so sectors just completely mis-identify files that have been written to it. Basically just keep more than one hard drive, and make sure at least one of them is five years younger than the other at all times. You can be a crazy-ass and make a RAID like

StelardActek

, but that requires powerleveling in Nerd.

terrymouse

10 years, 10 months ago

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@ KNIFE

Could be worse.  It could be like my old Emerson 286 IBM-compatible PC.  It had  a "whopping" 512 KB of RAM, COM1 fried the moment I turned the computer on (frying my mouse along with it, making it both the first and last regular mouse I've ever had on a PC ever), and found a way to delete just the .EXE file off of a write-protected disk.

It also decided that I had "too much RAM", and the POST eventually started displaying "512 KB RAM / 64 KB OK!", so I eventually ended up installing an entire MB into the little bastard.  Then my video card (I don't even remember was it was at the time) started glitching, and I got to play the game of "which video card does my computer think is onboard today"!

For one day, I was stuck with "CGA palette 3".  I wish I was making this all up.  I wish.

KNIFE

10 years, 10 months ago

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@ terrymouse

*shakes your hand* That sir, was impressive!
I wish I could find something witty to say about it but
I got nothing. It's just...wow!

terrymouse

10 years, 10 months ago

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@ KNIFE

I don't think there really is anything to say.

Never buy a computer from a company that's better known for kitchen appliances.

Kuto

10 years, 10 months ago

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good lord i know too well how you feel right now, i remember when my pc was having problems like that but a bit worse, i really don't want to talk about it. I wish there was something i could do to help you.

mkjeller

10 years, 10 months ago

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Get your mitts on a HDD -> USB Caddy or Dock to pull what you can off it before it nukes itself then burn it.
New hard disk wise, a Seagate or a WD Blue will last you a long time.

Norithics

10 years, 10 months ago

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@ mkjeller

Between my phone, my iPod and my bunch of little USB thumb drives, I've never been at a loss for ways to take files from one place to another.

Flexible

10 years, 10 months ago

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That's some shit man. o-o It's never good when the hard drive starts dying.

JHelfrich

10 years, 10 months ago

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Sorry to hear about that. My plan for that sort of thing (assuming I ever follow through) is to have data backup drives that I hook up once a week or so, I figure they might last longer if they aren't constantly running like I usually have my system. That way if either drive dies, I'll still have one copy of my files for long enough to get a replacement drive.

Norithics

10 years, 10 months ago

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@ JHelfrich

Tape drives do tend to be pretty good for that.

GunslingerDragon

10 years, 10 months ago

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Ah the joys of hard drives. My old laptop melted it's first hard drive in less than a year (yes, melted, literally). Raid configurations can be good, if you know how to do it, but otherwise just back up your system regularly. Speaking of which, I'm due for a backup myself...

SenGrisane

10 years, 10 months ago

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I know the feeling. My PC died 4 days ago. Dunno if it is harddrive or mainboard yet.

GrayscaleRain

10 years, 10 months ago

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Shit man. ;o; I hope all your files come out okay.

Hard drives have a tendency to work great right up until they self-destruct for no reason, so you really have no way to grab things unless you're really lucky. X_x

Automat

10 years, 10 months ago

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Edited 10 years, 10 months ago by Owner

shit dude :( , that really sucks. try this it might recover lost files

http://pcsupport.about.com/od/filerecovery/tp/free-fil...

I recommend using the first one at my work place we use it a lot.

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