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| _Griphin_ User Info... | What a crummy deal buying equipment from Microtech Computer Systems, originally 2 years ago (when I got out of hospital) I bought a new system from MicroTech cause they were really close to where I live. JUST now, I was playing Carmageddon when suddenly one of my hard drives started clicking (unable to read data), after I pulled the drive and played with the Bi0s, eventually it recognized my 5+ year old Western Digital drive (the one I bought from DTI Computers), but I lost all my documents and any work I was currently doing (I need to re-download some stuff). What a piece of shit Western Digital drive. (BTW: It's not the fault of MicroTech, I also had an issue with the memory, perhaps they just get a bad batch of hardware, in any case I needed to eventually replace the existing drive as is, I just hate losing data!) I'd rather buy my hardware from DTI, never an issue with anything they sell. LUCKILLY all my audio work was on the old drive, BUT I lost all my Applications (I backed these up), and my documents (sigh, 8 years of work lost). - Sat, 9 Dec 2006 12:52pm Edited: Sat, 9 Dec 2006 1:38pm | ||
| lonemonk User Info... | Yep it always sucks had when computer gear goes down. In this day and age of 500GB drives, one ends up losing a lot of stuff! Glad to hear your audio was ok. It might be a good time to back that up as well given the omen you just received. It doesn't matter the manufacturer. Some drives last 10 years and others don't even reach their 1st birthday. In general Western Digital is pretty good. It wouldn't matter where you buy it from. - Sat, 9 Dec 2006 2:10pm | ||
| _Griphin_ User Info... | Ummm... that's the drive I lost, Western Digital WD800, manufactured 22 May, 2002 (damn, all those 2s). - Sat, 9 Dec 2006 3:15pm | ||
| jackass User Info... | you can recover lost data from hard drives sometimes...it's often the bearings that go, so take it in and they can usually save it - Sat, 9 Dec 2006 5:20pm | ||
| Mofo User Info... | If you would like I can recover your data, if it means that much to you, whatever you do don't try writing to the drive, if it does at all. Have you tried setting it as a slave and using recovery programs from your Master drive? Probably a dumb question but if you need any help let me know. - Sat, 9 Dec 2006 6:06pm | ||
| Gman User Info... | "8 years of work lost" Just want to say that if what you have stored on your hard drives is at all important to you, make copius backup CDs. Photos, mp3s, etc. - if they're important, also consider posting them to a free image/ audio hosting site. Then if you lose physical copies you may be able to download them. It's usually possible to recover much of what's left on your drives, as well. Just don't fuck with them in the meantime. Whether it's really worth it or not is another question. - Sat, 9 Dec 2006 9:35pm | ||
| _Griphin_ User Info... | Thanks to all wishing to help. I'm gonna pop the drive into the freezer BEFORE I try to pull any data (I don't plan to power it up). Yeah, yeah, I know, backup your data. But the drive is 2 years old (not even), my DTI Western Digital is over 5 years old, I do believe it's the same make of drive, just a difference in age. What's up with that?!? Only thing I need to backup would be the documents subdir and any audio I was working on (there's also close to 5 gigs of Emulation ROMS on it). I dunno if the bearings went, all I heard was *click* *click*, *click* *click*. At the time it didn't crash my system, and I was playing a game from that drive. I'm looking at getting a 250 gig drive to replace it (at $125 for a 250 gig hard drive (Segate), that's a good fuckin' deal!!!). If you could help me backup important data, let me know (oh there's also a bunch of ISOs on it too, I knew I should of nuked them.) - Sun, 10 Dec 2006 12:56am Edited: Sun, 10 Dec 2006 12:57am | ||
| lonemonk User Info... | The click of death is not a bearing issue normally. It can mean a track0 issue where the drive simply cannot complete its initialization or can't successfully read the table of contents. It can also be a circuit board problem which is actually very easy to fix if you can find a working EXACT model. I've fixed at least 3 drives by replacing the circuit board, then getting everything off of it FAST! My advice to you, if that information is worth something to you, pay to have it recovered. Most recovery places have pretty high success rates (Well into the 90% area) If it isn't that important then get someone to help if you want, but don't expect much. I have been successful at it, but only when I didn't care if it failed horribly. I have also struggled with drives that simply refuse to work and since the info wasn't worth it to me, just get on with life. As I said before, regardless of manufacturer or how new they are, always assume you just don't know how long your drive is going to last and backup frequently. Even a two-day-old hard drive can fail. - Sun, 10 Dec 2006 2:24pm Edited: Sun, 10 Dec 2006 2:26pm | ||
| _Griphin_ User Info... | True, I just have to get it to quit clicking. In any case, I'm looking at getting a 250 gig drive cause DAMN those hard drives are really cheap. I'm going with Segate this time. - Sun, 10 Dec 2006 6:39pm | ||
| Tim-Bitchfork User Info... | Yeah, Drives are only under warranty for 3 years unless it's an enterprise server drive. So yeah, I wouldn't keep drives past 3 years. Backups are sweet too, I have a RAID linux samba fileserver but thats just playing it really safe. Turning your computer off at night helps too, thats less time your drives are spining for no reason (unless you have the OS turn the drives off). Sorry to hear man, if the data is REALLY important there is some drive forensics guys in Vic that can probably get the data off the platters in that drive, but it might cost a lot. - Mon, 11 Dec 2006 9:56am | ||
| _Griphin_ User Info... | According to the Western Digital website, the drives have a 1 year warranty. I dunno, Norm at Microtech said he can rescue any data from it, and since I got the drive from him, I'll probably see if he can rescue the data. I never turn a system off at night, actually. Other then that, I could probably rescue the data myself. - Mon, 11 Dec 2006 12:43pm Edited: Mon, 11 Dec 2006 12:45pm | ||
| User User Info... | Fuck WD, get a Seagate w/ 3 yr warranty. - Fri, 15 Dec 2006 3:46pm | ||
| _Griphin_ User Info... | Planning on it, Future Shop sells a Segate 320 gig hard drive for under $140 I think. - Fri, 15 Dec 2006 4:54pm | ||
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