I just seem to have lost 120 Gb of data because my 7-month old Maxtor disk decided to die. I hope the people at Maxtor are happy now.
And of course, I have no backups, because 'it has never gone wrong before!'.
I don't care about the programs, games, music and video. But I do really care about my drawing work, web site material and my school archives.
It hasn't really sunk in yet that I have permanently lost x years of work. If I could just have those three folders back, I don't care about the 100+ Gb of other stuff
Damn. I've really lost it all :|
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That happened to me with my 40 gig last year. I lost a lot of good music, digital pictures, personal stuff, etc. that I will never find again. I've considered getting it "recovered" as shown above, however there was a lot of 'likely illegal stuff' I really didn't want to answer for.
-------------------- Hey, it only took 13 years for me to figure out my password...
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Well, unless it's kiddie porn, I don't think they usually care. I don't think they ask for proof that you legally own every bit of software/media on the drive.
I could be wrong, though.
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On the bright-side, 7 months is *still* within the wimpy 1-year warranty that you get with hard drives now. You can at least get your drive replaced.
In any case, there's a reason why the companies have mostly replaced 3 year warranties with 1 year warranties.
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Saltah'na
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Well, unless it's kiddie porn, I don't think they usually care.
-------------------- "And slowly, you come to realize, it's all as it should be, you can only do so much. If you're game enough, you could place your trust in me. For the love of life, there's a tradeoff, we could lose it all but we'll go down fighting...." - David Sylvian FreeSpace 2, the greatest space sim of all time, now remastered!
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Thanks to the wonderful people at Runtime Software, I've actually been able to recover almost everything from my disk!. About 60% of the directory structure was still intact, and a lot more files were found wandering about.
But the disk is very likely fried. I can't even get it to format. EIther way, I don't trust this disk anymore, and will certainly replace it.
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Congrats Harry. 60%, that's great. As long as it's the right 60%.
I've had mixed luck with Maxtor drives, but a lot of people I know swear by them. Didn't Maxtor used to be Quanum? Those were some garbage. Western Digital has done right by me, but then I always hear horror stories.
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My Maxtor drive started having the same problem again that I had a thread about a while back. So I replaced it today (I'd wanted something bigger, anyway). I went with Western Digital, since my other WD drive has lasted about four years with nary a problem. Though, I've heard the horror stories, too. So, who knows?
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Maxtors are meh. IBMs are meh. WDs are meh. Seagates are meh. Samsungs are meh. Hitachis are meh.
So, they all suck.
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I have a Western Digital 40Gb, not one problem in four years. And I've filled it to the brim, taken it for a dance and then deleted half of it, several times over these past years. So they're OK in my book.
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quote:Originally posted by Nim the Fanciful: I have a Western Digital 40Gb, not one problem in four years.
My Western Digital 60Gig serves me well, for I am its master. I also have a 6-year old 4Gig (yes, "four") Western Digital which I use to run my OS off of, that is still kicking.
My 40Gig that took a dump on me was a Seagate.
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