My Hard Drive Crashed!

I'm back almost 24 hours after suffering a major Hard Drive crash. I now have a replacement inside of my machine and I have a half working yet messed up original drive that all my data was lost.....

Good thing I backed everything up...except a few important things.....damn I hate it when my computer goes down right before I can get to offloading them to DVDRs or CDRs.

I'm just happy right now....

I got my computer back up without having to go to my uncle to help me...or anyone else....

Still I miss having a secondary drive to place all my videos on.....

So begins the long process of restoring [Which is halfway done,pictures are back on my Drive and my music except for my favorite OSTs the Xenosaga Soundtracks were lost in the crash]

But I am BACK!!!

welcome back and it happened on my PC about 3 days ago also..

used a file finder programme but lost 4.8GB of berserk which was 98% complete!!

grrrrrrrr

d/l it again now..

i feel your pain..

[KiraRin]

We have all of the drives in a Raid 0 array in our server, and one of the drives decided to give up...

Unfortunately, we had over 1.5TB on there and virtually none of it was backed up (I don't want to think how much it would cost to buy that amount of dvd's). We ended up buying the same amount of storage again as the other half had a piece of proffessional software that managed to restore it all.

Quick transfer of it all to the new drives, the broken one in the bin, we managed to restore about 98% of it (it did take about a week to do, but as they say; patience is a virtue). The server is now just over 3TB, so I pray nothing goes wrong and we have to buy another 3 TB >.<

H.

Well this hard drive was having major trouble just starting it's disks...I could hear them trying to start spinning but they just couldn't make it......it's been running for a while with no problems at all then it suddenly went out...I mean I could still acess the drive but it was messed up...I managed to get my Icons and my Wallpapers off the drive before I just took it out and well it's sitting near my PS2....

Another thing that pissed me off was the only Windows XP Disk I had [That I could find at the moment] Messed up about halway through the install but it managed to finish it....got several hours worth of downloading updates.... I did manage to get my internet back working [A major relief that is because I don't have what I need on CDROMs I download everything]


Also this Drive I got was a refurbished and restored drive My uncle is a computer repair genius [He's got his own buisness he runs out of his home] Infact I killed my last PC by switching power supply settings [That was pre Tech School when I didn't know **** about Power Supply settings and that you should never switch them unless you know what you're doing]


For some reason I get into these things where I end up causing major problems for my computer or they go on the fritz which drives me into a near withdrawl like phase from not having a computer till I go and attack the problem....basically I get smarter from each hard drive crash or system malfunction....

:/

I've seen this problem all over the place.. It always leads me to wonder a few things. Like
A) A hard drive is a multilayer compact disc (or other type of disc) stored in a self contained case. A hard drive CANNOT crash. The operating system running it can, and that can inadvertantly delete files. However, a hardrive, if not maintained (and especially so in Dell computers) will gather dust over time, slowing the spin of the disk, and over all slowing your computer as it takes longer to load data. Once a sufficient amount of dust is collected, you should notice a spike in lag, and if you check your disk space left, you'll notice it drops significantly. A 80 gig drive will tend to drop around 3.4 gigs in size. There is virtually no way to recover a drive at this point, and you're best off just scrapping it. Unless you want to rip it open and do some detail work on it, but I'd reccomend that to a professional, as something as simple as oil from the tip of your finger can fry anything inside your computer, especially susceptable are processors, GPUs, and RAM. These devices can fail completely months after touching them, and often results in a completely fragged PC.
And now for...
B) To save yourself all this hassle, go to any hardware store or PC shop, and you should be able to buy a spray-can of air. Occasionally (make sure you know how to safely do this) open up the side panel of your computer, spray the air in all areas, particularily the fans GPU, power supply, CPU, and hard drive, and place a vacuum nearby do clean up the unsettled dust. Doing so should maintain your computer in peak physical condition, ensuring a long life out of all components. This should be done about once a month or two.

Oh, and always rawk an Nvidia card. Forget ATI and don't even think an integrated card will work. Nvidia cards have onboard processors, and a good Nvidia card will supply you with a nice dual RAMDAC at about 350 mhz. Doesn't seem like much, but gaming and video will be many many times better with it. I won't go into why 350 mhz of dedicated processor is so much help, suffice it is to say that an Xbox has a 370 mhz processor. Hopefully, this will never happen to any of us again.

Well I've always got a dust problem with this case my Hard Drive had allot of dust on it......but I've cleaned all three Disks off I might have to get maybe an air can to clean out the case....I do a monthly dusting but I haven't been doing it for the last two months....plus I think this case might not be set up for two drives since the holding tray only has one slot for a hard drive....