Attention: Hard drive failure

Larry Reese · 08-25-2009, 12:00 AM,

All,

Our hard drive crashed (again) on Sunday. Working with the manufacturer to remedy the situation. Will be offline in our games until this is completed. May have lost a mountain of data as well.

I am incensed.

LR

**Jason Petho** · 08-25-2009, 12:26 AM,

I feel your pain, Larry.

Hope you recover your data.

Jason Petho

Sturmvogel · 08-25-2009, 05:31 AM,

Ouch! I think we all here, have felt that PAIN... One time or another. Just went through that myself, with multiple hard drive failures within the same month. Even my external backup drive I purchased just for backups failed! Not once but twice! <GRUMBLE> Talk about BAD LUCK! Finally, went out and bought another internal drive, and hopefully a RAID configuration will be my friend, along with the external drive.

Just like Jason... I hope you get all your data back!

Kirk

Larry Reese · 08-25-2009, 06:34 AM,

This is the first time in nearly 30 years of computing that I've ever had a hard drive failure. Well, let me qualify that: Starting when I bought this POS machine in December 2008 is the first time I ever had HD failures. This is the third time and the manufacturer keeps sending new drives by different suppliers. It's either bad luck or there is something about the chassis that's frying these things. Knowing the odds, I went without a back up drive this last time and got burned. Not catastrophically, but it is as annoying as hell.

LR

Sturmvogel · 08-25-2009, 07:19 AM,

Mine was a CATASTROPHE!! Lost a massive amount of family pictures through the years, which I will never get back. :( Of, course there was a lot of other stuff, but I really didn't care about that stuff in comparision. Makes me almost want to go back to the good ole 35mm film, and my trusty AE1.

Technology is sometimes a curse I think... :chin:

Kirk

**Scud** · (This post was last modified: 08-25-2009, 10:00 AM by Scud.)

When external's fail it's often the chassis, not the drive itself. You can pick up USB enclosures at Staples for around $20. Open up the chassis of the old one, take the drive out and put it in the new one.