Just have to say this......

[Memener]

My HDD (or HD or hard drive or small metal box with spining disks in it) Died on the same day of that the may 18th EQlive patch broke EQEmu my hard drive stop spining. I got a cool error i have never seen before. (was great!) anyway anyway feel like you have been F'ed when something like this happens to you?

Let me tell yal have I lost:

UT GOTY with all of the maps and skins i made and server files (poof GONE!)
my frist C+ problem I made (I thought it was really cool!)(poof GONE!)
EverQuest with may 12 patch and my cshome files....
my 4.4 server and Database with 80% of spawns (that i did by *&%& hand)
just over 4000 MP3s(i miss them already)
lost all of my emu games (N64 sega NES super NES PS1 Gameboy and GBA about 600 of them Poof GONE!


I could go on and on and on and on.... When something like this happens to you, I think you will look at computers in a whole new shitty way and under stand that they SUCK! lol

I am not pissed, just disappointed....

[Charmy]

I am not pissed, just disappointed....

When my parents used to tell me this it hurt so much more. i almsot wish they would be pissed instead.


As for your issue, sucks much, i am sorry to hear it, how old is your computer? or your HDD for that matter, i am suprised to hear that it failed you, however i do have some good news! I just save a bunch of money on my car insurance by switching to geico.

http://www.drivesavers.com/index4.html

I have used them before, (My issuse was my tower was inside a closet and the shelf collasped for some unknown reason, but my HDD wouldn't spin anymore =( ) anyway, they are extremely fast, and i got 95% of my files back, the only ones i didn't get were a few of my programs, i guess the needle made a nice deep scracth on that section when the computer fell, anyway if you need your stuff back, they are amazing, i won't lie they aren't really cheap, was 252.98 for me (this was a small HD only 10gb) i don't know what the price is on bigger ones, but anyway i liked em.

[Memener]

The hard drive was only a year and a half old its and IBM Deskstar 82.3Gb...

oh and the age of my computer.. Hmmm really it is nay( <---- Nay ???? lol sorry about this I am really trying to inprove my typing I ment to say about ) 5-2 years old I bult it from other computer so some of it is old and some of it is older.
The motherboard and CPU I bought at the same time and that was a two years ago.

and thanks for the info I might look into it.


sure i got a new HD .... a blank one! i really miss my MP3s i have 1/3 of them on CD but no of my new ones :(

[gandar]

It's time like these that I truly appeciate the setup I have here. All of my "important" files are stored on my PDC. They are backed up nightly to my BDC, ergo there are always 2 copies of my MP3s, important docs, email, etc... using Handy Backup.

My BDC even doubles as a WinAmp Nullsoft SHOUTcast server for my LAN, since all the MP3s are there, too.

Furthermore, to avoid complete file loss, I backup to DVD every 3 months or so.

I'm not bragging... The point is I KNOW where you are coming from. About 3 years ago my comp took a crap on me and I lost EVERYTHING and couldn't afford DriveSavers. I learned my lesson and NOW I OVER compensate!

You could always try R-Studio if it's just an issue that the drive won't boot - or put it in as a slave to see if you can recover anything.

I wish you luck and I feel your pain.
~Gandar

[Swampdog]

RecoverItAll salvaged most of my photography and mp3s about a year and half ago on a drive that had it's drive table get corrupted. I'd say I was able to recover about 65-70pct of the files. Think it costed somewhere between $200-300, but you have the program if it ever happens again.

I feel your pain though.. I paniced when it wouldn't boot.. I had just spent 2 months trying to get negatives scanned and hadn't archived them to CD yet.

[dragonflz]

Or to help in a situation like this you could be doing a nightly or if that is to often a weekly backup of your important files.

I myself backup my data every-other night to tape (comes from working as a network admin for so long).

Anyways I hope you are able to use one of the data recovory services to get your data, and programs back. Good luck!