saddest day in my life :(

[tigerx]

my good computer broke down yesterday, the monitor won't show shit, the PC turn on and off by itself and i have to send it to repair and that would take 1 month and i might/will lose all my data, which mean 14GB of car videos and movies plus 1 gig of car picture!!!!!!!! :cry: :cry: :cry: . i'm too dumb to back up stuff :(

[BADMIHAI]

oh man..I feel your pain/anger! I lost 10 GB of car vids in August when I had to format...Good thing I had saved the other 10 GB...

Sorry dude!

[gis]

ouch,thats gotta hurt,i would be PISSED if that happened to me with how long it takes to d/l in the first place

sorry about it man

[tigerx]

i don't know wut to do :cry: . i had so much good vids and games on it plus my music collection :cry:

[RC45]

Then don't send it in for repair.

Simply buy a new hard disk - and ask them to set the system up using that new drive. Keep the other drives safey at home. Then simply access the other drives as data drives.

Doesn't seem like a big deal to me unless the hard disk/s actually failed.

[Sachmo12345]

yea i lost 80 gigs of movies and music

[marciodcmendes]

Damn computers, you never know when something like this is gonna happen. We share your pain, dude. :wink:

[rocket]

and this is exactly why I bought a dvd writer.. regular backups are the thing to do ;)

[RC45]

Still - unless you are talking about a total hard disk failure - the data is NOT lost.

Reformat is not the answer to everything - and is very seldom the answer to anything.

I hope this is a lesson for all - take 1 disk - make that your Operating system disk (your C: drive) and put in other physical disks to be your D: etc drives...

Problem solved - now if you need some local peckerhead tech to "reformat" your system to fix an issue - no sweat - you data is safe.

[Zonda11]

and this is exactly why I bought a dvd writer.. regular backups are the thing to do ;)

Ya, I've got 15 GB on DVD.

[Nemisis8u]

oh man thats a bummer :(. Im slowly backing up my videos. You know that windows has a 6 months shelf life after that it goes to shit. i hope you fix it without loosing any thing :wink:

[geekdiggy]

i'm saving up to get a dvd writer so if this kind of thing happens to me at least my shit isn't gone forever (believe me i'd contemplate self-mutilation if that were to ever happen)

[RC45]

Whats the dig freaking deal here ppl? Hard drives are DIRT cheap now - so all you do is BUY another drive, back up your data to it and you are done.

Stuborn people deserve to lose their data.

We are talking about LESS than $100 for 100GB drive....

[altezza]

ask them not to format the data
or just buy a new HD if necessary so that u can preserve ur current HD

[RC45]

ask them not to format the data
or just buy a new HD if necessary so that u can preserve ur current HD

I tried suggesting this - but I think JW is populated by a bunch of computer illiterate jacka$$es... ;)

That's it - or people just like to whine about lost data, but not do anyhting to cure the problem,,,

[enigmatic]

its ok, RC45, i read this thread thinking the same thing. :roll:
just incase they missed it the first 10 times; dont format the drive, buy a new drive, set the new one as the master and the old one as the slave -- put a fresh install of windows on the new drive, and copy your data over from your old (now secondary) drive.
a 13 year old kid can do this kinda thing.. its no big deal at all.

if the computer repair place dosn't know what we're on about, turn on your heel and walk away.. :x

[pranesh76]

oh man thats a bummer . Im slowly backing up my videos. You know that windows has a 6 months shelf life after that it goes to shit. i hope you fix it without loosing any thing

Nemisis8u

your avatar is amazing..what kind of script are you running? sorry to ask this in this forum, but i cant help it :shock: :shock:

[geekdiggy]

JW is populated by a bunch of computer illiterate jacka$$es... ;)

yeah so what? :oops:

[geekdiggy]

We are talking about LESS than $100 for 100GB drive....

hahhhhhhhhhhhhh? the HD i have costed like 500 bucks and it's only 40GB :|

[enigmatic]

hahhhhhhhhhhhhh? the HD i have costed like 500 bucks and it's only 40GB :|
must have been maannyy years ago :o
i paid around AU$140 for 60gb about a year ago.. you can get twice the storage for a similar price now :roll:

[geekdiggy]

damn that's crazy. we just bought this christmas time in 2002, 500 smackeroos. and it's not even a good comp, it's a fuckin emachines

[yellow_rice]

bummer dude, live and learn right?
next time, have a partitioned HD

[The Transporter]

my good computer broke down yesterday, the monitor won't show shit, the PC turn on and off by itself and i have to send it to repair and that would take 1 month and i might/will lose all my data, which mean 14GB of car videos and movies plus 1 gig of car picture!!!!!!!! :cry: :cry: :cry: . i'm too dumb to back up stuff :(

I bet you are running windows ...

I didn't formated my computer since 4 years ... running gentoo (http://www.gentoo.org/) linux ...

I have put online some new and old screenshots here:

http://blenderman.free.fr/screenshots/

[saadie]

lol ........

dont worry ....... all ya need to do is copy all the data tht u require to another hard drive ......

i reinstall windows every 2nd week ....... it just cant support al the softs tht i use ... :lol:

and another thing ...... if ure trying to be over smartt wid ur intel processor ... the remember dis .. INTEL INSIDE IDIOT OUTSIDE

[ i was away for a few days .... its god to be back :) ]

[sikx5]

man your lucky, only 10gig.... my 80gig ibm 7200rpm hd failed. 26gig car vids gone, 17gig media pictures also down the drain....i was saving for a dvd burner at the time :x :x :x :x :x :x :x :x :x

[The Transporter]

Informatic is not reinstall operating system every 2 weeks.

If your OS can't support software, it's not your fault of course, but ppl who created it should maybe think before making something (in particular M$).

And about CPU, I dont want to be a 'troll' on those forum but everyone think what he wants.
Amd is really cheaper than Intel, it's good CPU but need to be well cooled compared to Intel.
Ppl who want quality instead of 'performance' would better buy Intel ...
Again that's my point of view.

[yg60m]

Burning, burning and burning ! That's a safe mean of keeping the vids else you can partitionate your HDD or buy a second one and save your datas in.

[enigmatic]

Burning, burning and burning ! That's a safe mean of keeping the vids else you can partitionate your HDD or buy a second one and save your datas in.
a second 'backup' partition on one drive isn't going to be of much help when the drive falls on its face.. :?

[stracing]

when using dvd burner, always use quality discs. losing 4.38gb is just as painful

[tigerx]

the advices are very good but it's too late now i guess :cry:

[bmwfreak]

RC45, altezza, and enigmatic have all aready said it, data isnt lost if your operating system crashes and things get all wonky.

Simply buy a new harddrive, reinstall your OS, and presto, you can access your old hardrive from your new one, much like a floppy disk, only its permanent storage.

A MAxtor MaxDiamond9 PLus 120 GB (SATA - those harddrives with the thin cables that) would set you back U$120. A standard IDE one(witht hose big wide ribbon cables) would set you back 90 to a 100 dollars.

I;d suggest partitioning your main system harddrive into two, so that way, if you format the partition with your OS, the other partition, even if it's on the same hard disk, will not be affected.

Never keep data on tha partition that you have your OS installed.

[possessed_beaver]

the best bet would be having a fault tolerant RAID setup, with the prices of HDD these days, you cannot go wrong!!
i pay about AU$100 for 80gig and it will only be getting cheaper *GO THE AUSIE DOLLOAR*

[bmwfreak]

the advices are very good but it's too late now i guess :cry:

Give the shop a call. You might still be in time.

[draak666]

We are talking about LESS than $100 for 100GB drive....

hahhhhhhhhhhhhh? the HD i have costed like 500 bucks and it's only 40GB :|
Aaawch :roll: You got ripped off, dude. :(

[tigerx]

RC45 wrote:
We are talking about LESS than $100 for 100GB drive....


hahhhhhhhhhhhhh? the HD i have costed like 500 bucks and it's only 40GB

Aaawch You got ripped off, dude.


i think he have a SCSI hard drive, those thing are much more expensive then the regular ones that normal ppl use, but it is much much much faster.

oh and yeah since i bought my comp from radioshack (it's a fuking compaq ok? you wanna laugh at me? go ahead) :roll: i have to give it to them then they'll ship it off to compaq repair center.

in the meantime, i'm thinking of buying a better computer. my budget can only get me a good DELL or a good MDG computer so opinion is welcome, and i think this thread should be in the computer section too ;).

[saadie]

y do ya ppl go for a branded system ... ??


make a custom system .... trust me it works better ....

[SDK2003]

Whats the dig freaking deal here ppl? Hard drives are DIRT cheap now - so all you do is BUY another drive, back up your data to it and you are done.

Stuborn people deserve to lose their data.

We are talking about LESS than $100 for 100GB drive....

Yup he's right :)
I lost over 120GB of data last September, and some of it was unrecoverable work files :(
So i've since got 2 spare 120GB drives purely for data backup- it'll never happen again !!!

Video, MP3's, images etc can all be downloaded again anyway

[saadie]

kewl sys ya got ther ....... :D

i built ma pc 2 years ago ...... i never had a problem with it ...... :)

it works like ice upon ice .... real smoth .... :wink:

[SamuraiGti]

My HD decided not to work anymore in the other day, then i bought a new HD 120gb, and now the other HD decided to run again lol

Worst than that, was my mobile phone and lost all numbers =(

[geekdiggy]

We are talking about LESS than $100 for 100GB drive....

hahhhhhhhhhhhhh? the HD i have costed like 500 bucks and it's only 40GB :|
Aaawch :roll: You got ripped off, dude. :(

i didn't know any better, and niether did my dad :| but tigerx is right, my comp is 56k yet it's still fast as fuck

[gigdy]

We are talking about LESS than $100 for 100GB drive....

hahhhhhhhhhhhhh? the HD i have costed like 500 bucks and it's only 40GB :|

Good god ive got 400gigs for $300 and the 80 gb my comp came with. And i keep no dl's on the 80 gig one its for windows and installed progs only.

[RC45]

RC45 wrote:
We are talking about LESS than $100 for 100GB drive....


hahhhhhhhhhhhhh? the HD i have costed like 500 bucks and it's only 40GB

Aaawch You got ripped off, dude.


i think he have a SCSI hard drive, those thing are much more expensive then the regular ones that normal ppl use, but it is much much much faster.

.

What good is a fast SCSI drive if you have no redundancy? And without a decent SCSI controller you will get no faster throughput than you would get from a decent EIDE - and the new Fast ATA are screamers - and unless you have a decent caching SCSI array controller, the SCSI setup in a regular PC setup is slower than an EIDE or ATA.

Dont bother with a IDE RAID - just have a second drive to use as a backup device.

For my sensative data, I have a Compaq Fibre Channel Array with a bunch of 18 and 36GB SCSI drives - 2 RAID 5 Arrays with online spare drive. The Array chassis is hotswap for 100% uptime.

For perfomance and video processing I just have a bunch of 40 and 120GB EIDE drives.

Data integrity is all a matter of cost/benefit.

You do the math and decide on priorities.

Then scale and spend accordingly.

[geekdiggy]

RC45 wrote:
We are talking about LESS than $100 for 100GB drive....


hahhhhhhhhhhhhh? the HD i have costed like 500 bucks and it's only 40GB

Aaawch You got ripped off, dude.


i think he have a SCSI hard drive, those thing are much more expensive then the regular ones that normal ppl use, but it is much much much faster.

.

What good is a fast SCSI drive if you have no redundancy? And without a decent SCSI controller you will get no faster throughput than you would get from a decent EIDE - and the new Fast ATA are screamers - and unless you have a decent caching SCSI array controller, the SCSI setup in a regular PC setup is slower than an EIDE or ATA.

Dont bother with a IDE RAID - just have a second drive to use as a backup device.

For my sensative data, I have a Compaq Fibre Channel Array with a bunch of 18 and 36GB SCSI drives - 2 RAID 5 Arrays with online spare drive. The Array chassis is hotswap for 100% uptime.

For perfomance and video processing I just have a bunch of 40 and 120GB EIDE drives.

Data integrity is all a matter of cost/benefit.

You do the math and decide on priorities.

Then scale and spend accordingly.

wow. computer literate people speak a whole different language :shock:

[saadie]

lol ...yah ...... now ya know .... :D

backing storage is a real small thingy ........ u dont wanna know the rest ... :mrgreen:

[tigerx]

well the new IDE standard will be much faster and more cost effective, but right now, most servers use SCSI since it provide much faster seek time. there's no need for us to use it though :D.

SCSI is also good if you edit lots of video and you're into like photography and stuff.

[saadie]

scsi has agreater spped ..... it can read and write simultaneously ....
ide sux .... :(

i have the latest ide technology .... its ATA 100 ..... it's rillly dead slow when compared to scsi :roll:

[RC45]

scsi has agreater spped ..... it can read and write simultaneously ....
ide sux .... :(

i have the latest ide technology .... its ATA 100 ..... it's rillly dead slow when compared to scsi :roll:

Bull - only when combined with a decent caching SCSI controller, 64bit bus, and PCIX card.

If you take a current top end PC and put a serial ATA drive in place with onboard controller - you will get more usable data throughput than if you took a PCI SCSI card and attached even a 15,000RPM 70+GB SCSI drive.

Servers use PCIX and 64BIT multi-channel caching SCSI adapters to get the insane throughput they do.

Without the rest of the peripherals you are throwing money away on SCSI.

It is like putting a 1000hp engine in a car, and then equipping it with snow tyres on narrow wheels.

Won't work as intended.

But if you want to blow your wad ;) and cash on a bunch of small fast SCSI drives, and then not be able to provide the backbone for it - be my guest.

Just don't get mad when your neighbour has 5x the storage space, and is faster, has redundancy and still spent 1/4 of what you did.

But hey - at least you will have SCSI... *shrug*

Servers and workstations - 2 different worlds.

[tanelvali]

This makes me worried... I have about 20-30 giga carvids.. and my HDD is... well..pretty old... :| Must buy a DVD writer... QUICKLY!

[mit5005]

They are cheap now, i just a got an 80 gig western digital and it was $100 with $50 rebate

[geekdiggy]

joking right? the cheapest one i could find around here was like 200 bucks. shet

[BADMIHAI]

joking right? the cheapest one i could find around here was like 200 bucks. shet



Maybe you should go to the part of Hawaii that does breed bumbling idiots. I'm sure HDDs are cheaper there. :wink:

[geekdiggy]

Maybe you should go to the part of Hawaii that does breed bumbling idiots. I'm sure HDDs are cheaper there. :wink:

or maybe looking at the pawnshop was a bad idea huh? i knew i shoulda gone to circuit city or Comp USA but, i was too lazy to go that far

[mit5005]

I guess u payed for your laziness. I just keep my vids on my extra hard drive so i dont lose any of them. I tried keepin a copy of them on both hard drives but it was takin up too much room. I need a DVD writer, how much are those nowadays?

[Anonymous]

If you would of backed up your files. just like everybody said.

I thought this forum was realy going to be about someones saddest day.
if you lose all your videos that sucks :(

saddest days of someones life should be reserved for family members deaths, losing the women you love, getting your legs cut off. stuff like that

well i hope you get your files back. try what RC45 was saying.

[kompak]

we all in the same boat.....for me i have lost 2 pc for time being...the first one is my AMD 1800+ with 40GB Seagate HDD....the problem is that i have wrongly screwed the HDD to the casing...i screwed through the vacuum seal and when i start the pc....it shows that the master HD is failed..it takes a while before i realised what i have done....inside of HDD is vacuumed...so i get my vacuum cleaner and start to vacuum it and seal it with plastic tape...it works for 2 months and still i didn't make backup until it blows again and never can be recover again....so sad that i didn't make backup while i still can....the second one is in my office....that day i have to go for an outstation...when i get back to the office....i saw that my pc is turned off...when i took a closer look...i saw the pc is all wet...this is because the aircond water was leaking...and dripping to the pc...and that's it...all the hardware is damaged...and right now i'm using other staff pc to log in into jabbasworld......wonder when i will get a new pc in the office... :cry:

[Junk2006]

The saddest day in my life is when I heard my mommy and my daddy going at it. Now I never stay up past 9:00pm

[Tomerville]

The saddest day in my life is when I heard my mommy and my daddy going at it. Now I never stay up past 9:00pm


That's horrible.

[Anonymous]

The saddest day in my life is when I heard my mommy and my daddy going at it. Now I never stay up past 9:00pm

now thats a sad sad day

the happiest day of my life is when i ex-girlfriend heard me doing it with her sister.

HAHA bitch i told you i was going to get you worse, you kiss my friend(x friend) I fuck your sister. just for the world to know her names is (can i say her name with out getting in trouble) i"ll edit if i can say her name

[Junk2006]

you can say her name

[Anonymous]

her name is veronica nunez
and her sisters name was maria

[Overmind]

my good computer broke down yesterday, the monitor won't show shit, the PC turn on and off by itself and i have to send it to repair and that would take 1 month and i might/will lose all my data, which mean 14GB of car videos and movies plus 1 gig of car picture!!!!!!!! :cry: :cry: :cry: . i'm too dumb to back up stuff :(

if I understood you correctly, then I can assure you - the hdd is probably 100% alright, it looks like you have something like MB or CPU fucked up. So if you can't get the disk out of your PC, then perhaps you can hope that the technicians will only replace that particular component and when the system boots alright, your HDD won't get formated...