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at 12:08AM EST, my computer of the past 7 years suffered a catastrophic failure taking with it all my music, all my art, all my porn, all my favorites, all my email addresses, all my witty little wav files... it refuses to boot in any mode.
I consulted with Shael and she feels that a servo has failed inside the hard drive, or the hard drive itself has failed. Either way, this sucks a fat babys' ass.
I am on my backup machine which is the same vintage and is probably destined for failure as well.
It's at times like this that you sit there at your desk or workstation, powerless, looking at your old reliable machine and ask yourself, 'why god why have you forsaken my machine?'
So, now I have to take the computer apart, try and freeze the drive and then reinstall in it, and try to rip as much as I can from the drive before it finally ends its run.
It's been a reliable machine for 7 years, beating the odds on longevity. I think I read somewhere that the average home computer lasts maybe four years... my went from 2001 until now. So, I beat the odds.
So, I am both pissed off and in mourning at the passing of an old friend.
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Ugh, you have my sympathies. Best of luck with your data recovery.
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What happened to Sam is what happened to me a few years ago, I had a gateway pc of about the same vintage. Maxtor had a bad year for hard drives, a very bad year. I had to hard reboot, it locked up, I shut it off, and it would try to run scandisk and couldn't and I kept trying to reboot it, repeatedly.
Well, after a good two hours on the phone with gateway support...they finally agreed to send me a hard drive.
Anyway, I know how he feels.
My condolences, considering how I just pronounced it dead. 
Shael
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Restoration is proceeding, slowly. My last backup was at least a year ago, so there is a substantial amount of data still on my deceased computer. Will probably work on it after work.
I used to be such a stooge about "SAVE OFTEN"
my advice after this debacle? BACKUP OFTEN!!!!!!!!!
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sorry to hear about the drive taking a lot of your stuff along with it.
RAID and a separate backup (full either monthly/weekly + incremental daily) = WIN.
i've fried WAY too many drives over the last few years so now i'm pretty paranoid with my important data, backing it up to a few places, and also storing some off it online and offsite.
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i lost thousands of pictures when i lost a hard drive. i have since learned to keep at least 2 backups of everything. i have 2 external hard drives with the exact same thing on both, and have also burned most of my stuff to DVD just in case some sort of EMP surge attacks my abode.
I definately learned to back up often.
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Always backup yer data...never know when a hard drive could take a crap, flushing all your files with it.
Out of curiosity, what brand/model of drive was it? The stuff manufactured today/in the last few years is pretty good in terms of not crashing and losing data.
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I have lost my stuff so many times it's not even funny. Well maybe it's funny, I dunno. I finally learned. BACK UP YOUR STUFF!! Inevitably something will happen.
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Ok stop you guys! My computer acts wonky a lot and I think oh no!!!! what have I not backed up 'cause I am too lazy to back up everything. Note to self.....
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id spend the few thousand it will be to recover the data in a clean room
but the moral of the story is you're an idiot for having that much data that's important to you in a single location
i drive around with a copy of all my data incase my house blows up while im at work
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Posted by Jeff!
id spend the few thousand it will be to recover the data in a clean room
but the moral of the story is you're an idiot for having that much data that's important to you in a single location
i drive around with a copy of all my data incase my house blows up while im at work
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Actually, the only thing that really suffered was my Music folder and my porn archive. I had printed out a hard copy of my address book about a month ago, which had all my financial passwords and such... so from that standpoint, I'm pretty good. That little cruzer 4gb jump drive saved my bacon in terms of my pictures. Also, I did a full CD backup maybe 6 months ago of stuff that was important to me... so now that the dust is settling, the fallout is not as bad as I had feared late last night.
For someone who asked further up the thread, my machine was a 2001 HP Pavilion XT963 running a 30gb drive and a Celeron 1.2MHz processor... I managed to yank the hard drive out of it after work and found that it was a Maxtor. Shael had mentioned that these drives had a run with bad issues. The back-up machine is a 2001 HP Pavilion XT983 running an AMD processor with about the same drive space. I'm assuming that since they are the same vintage that the drives should be indentical.
My important info, like my novels, have multiple copies, both digital, CD and hard copy.
Anyways, the aftermath continues. Thank you for your input.
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I know of one other person that recently had an old Maxtor (this one a 40GB ) fail on them.
Looks like in your case it was just the drive, most likely no damage to the other components of the machine...I'd go with a brand new Seagate drive (I've a bunch of relatively new ones here in various computers and none have had any issues) along with a separate external drive for backup.
...and I'd start thinking about replacing the drive in your second machine while you can still read data from it 
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| know of one other person that recently had an old Maxtor (this one a 40GB ) fail on them. |
My Catastrophic failure was an 80GB Seagate. I've had a 160GB Maxtor for about 5 years now with no problems.
And i have several Western Digital External drives. (2x 1TB 3.5", 1x 160GB 2.5")
They have been very good to me.
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my first windows machine was a 1998 Gateway G6-333Celeron with a Western Digital 3gb drive. (yes, 3 gb!) The drive performed fine until the computer was scrapped.
because both machines are so old, i am looking to replace rather than repair or upgrade.
EDIT!!! THE THUNDERING CLIMAX!!!
Well, i tried the old 'freezer' trick and then reinstalled the hard drive into the computer. It powered up, started to boot and then subsequently detonated. There was the smell of burning circuitry, a desktop EMP and then that was that for my drive.
in the words of Hudson from 'Aliens'... "Game over, man! Game over!"
so... now we regroup and get a new machine.
[last edit 2/9/2009 11:18 PM by Samurai - edited 1 times]
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Posted by Samurai
at 12:08AM EST, my computer of the past 7 years suffered a catastrophic failure taking with it all my music, all my art, all my porn, all my favorites, all my email addresses, all my witty little wav files... it refuses to boot in any mode.
I consulted with Shael and she feels that a servo has failed inside the hard drive, or the hard drive itself has failed. Either way, this sucks a fat babys' ass.
I am on my backup machine which is the same vintage and is probably destined for failure as well.
It's at times like this that you sit there at your desk or workstation, powerless, looking at your old reliable machine and ask yourself, 'why god why have you forsaken my machine?'
So, now I have to take the computer apart, try and freeze the drive and then reinstall in it, and try to rip as much as I can from the drive before it finally ends its run.
It's been a reliable machine for 7 years, beating the odds on longevity. I think I read somewhere that the average home computer lasts maybe four years... my went from 2001 until now. So, I beat the odds.
So, I am both pissed off and in mourning at the passing of an old friend.
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You lost all your porn? Shitty, Samurai. I mean that. A good porn collection takes years to acquire. I feel your pain.
Suggestion: buy a Mac for your next machine.
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Posted by KublaKhan
Suggestion: buy a Mac for your next machine.
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Or just kill yourself. I think Sam's brain would implode with frustration trying to work with a mac.
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Just wondering... who the hell downloads and saves porn? And why? You can just stream it all for free straight off the netz.
Srsly guise. Srsly. Why waste the space?
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Old habits. It's difficult to get used to a world with constantly available free porn. We used to have to go through elaborate schemes or incredible luck to get our hands on porn, and then you had to hoard it somewhere, defending it with your life.
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Posted by Samurai
I had printed out a hard copy of my address book about a month ago, which had all my financial passwords and such...
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this is a bad idea. (the printed out passwords i mean.)
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Posted by MutantMandias
Or just kill yourself. I think Sam's brain would implode with frustration trying to work with a mac.
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you're right, a 7 year old hp is much better than anything that is designed in Cupertino
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