Fuck. The Captain just killed my external drive. I wasn't in the room, but from the subtle clues he left all over the floor, it looks like he got under my desk, became entangled in my computer cables, and ran for his life. The drive was five feet away from my desk on the floor when I found it.
The drive powers up but all it does is make a buzzy noise every three seconds or so. No letter drive comes up when I hook it up. Fuck fuck fuck.
I have no idea how much is gone, but it's not as bad as it could have been. Back when the backup program went haywire, Seebs was able to get all the data off and move it to a spare he had lying around. I still hadn't finished checking to make sure the files were all copied back to my drive, so much is still intact. But it gets worse. I just moved 11 gigs of new stuff to the external drive this week to make room on my PC. I can't remember what I moved, but it was good stuff and I deleted it all right afterwards.
Fuck.
Fake edit: The beeping noise stopped, but still no connection. The suck of today is so spectacular that it has given me a headache. And it started out so good, too. I was getting things done, processing orders, cleaning out my email, and then bam. Fail after fail after fail with a big old rotten hard drive cherry on top.
Shoot me now.
January 28, 2009
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Cripes, everyone's having HD disasters again. It's like weather.
ReplyDeleteHold onto the drive just in case, maybe? If there's a chance something in the chassis gone wonky and disconnected, and not the plattery stuff itself, it might be worth an investigation.
Regardless, you have my condolences.
Um, so, I'm just going to quote here, because I couldn't explain it well enough in my own words.
ReplyDelete"Have you tried putting the drive in the freezer (in a sealed plastic bag) for a couple of hours so that all the delicate metal parts shrink slightly and there's more clearance between them? Sometimes this will get a dodgy drive running again for long enough to back up what's on it. Of course, it could also break it further."
A friend's drive dropped and got broken, while it was writing, which I understand is double bad. Another friend basically advised that, and a third yet said he tried on a iPod, and it worked. He managed to read the files off of it eventually. :\
Actually, I guess I should've just given you a link. I mean, you never know, it might work.
ReplyDeletehttp://forum.nethergate.net/index.php?showtopic=1305
I feel your pain of dog disasters, for mine has the same "ZOMGWTF RUN!!" reaction to getting tripped on wires. I'm just thankful that consoles nowadays all use wireless controllers, as he was prone to ending my Playstation gaming prematurely.
ReplyDeleteHehe, I was thinking of doing that as a last resort. Luckily it's colder than a freezer outside so I could just put it outside my bedroom door and wait XD
ReplyDeleteI know nothing about this kind of thing, but unless you have like bestiality porn on it or something similar you don't want people seeing, I'd take it to Future Shop (if it exists in the US, or some computer store anyway) and see if they can figure out what's wrong...
ReplyDeleteI wish I had a dog... :( but yeah, that kinda sucks. Cats can cause damage to stuff too though, when we first got ours she apparently saw something extremely interesting just outside my window and in the process of scrambling up to the windowsill scratched one of my posters clean in half. =/ 'Twas a drag.