My hard drive asplode

[Spaff]

it died... just topped itself, taking all my shit with it.;(

i am going to go drown myself now.

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[Jake]

if you need thumb or Mojo things I can provide.

Your computer explodes too often.

[Spaff]

oh my god, after a fucking good cry and an attempted suicide, the drive is showing possible sings of life....

will i drown or not?

stay tuned for the next exciting instalment

[Marek]

Oh man super lame. I will light a candle for your harddisk and hope for speedy recovery.

[Coldkill]

Lol.

I know a guy who can recover HDDs he's doing one for me atm for free! W00ties.

My HDD was formatted and corupted by the infamous Windows disk ¬¬.

Cold

[Salka]

Although his hard drive is still being a major dick, it is now working. He backed up a bunch of stuff in case it asplode again, and now he's playing WoW.

I agree that his hard drive asplode too often. I had a PC at home in Ireland... A MOUSE LIVED IN IT for a couple of weeks and pissed all over the insides, I dropped it while moving once... it suffered a million powercuts because of bad electricity supplies in the Irish countryside... it lived in a dusty room for years...

It managed to live for five years. It even survived the mice for gods sake. It even survived my cat sticking his paw through the hole in the back of the PC (where the video card used to be is where the mice got in) to try and catch the mice he knew were in there... imagine a little cat paw smacking everything he can reach inside your PC... with claws....

...Spaff's PC, on the other hand, seems to go into cardiac arrest every time he breaths on it.

Fancy-shmancy city PCs.

[Roderick]

Hehe. Well, such things teach at least the virtues of the back-up.

[toblix]

I've never had a hard drive crash on me, so with the years I have become sloppy with taking backups of my data. I can only imagine how it must feel, the cold, empty realisation of having lost everything - every song, every photograph, every master's thesis, every rare Japanese hardcore bukkake DVD-rip, every beautiful poem - sneaking, slithering slowly up your spine as you sit staring at your computer screen complaining about not finding a boot sectore where there has always been one.

Just the thought of it makes me want to buy a large RAID NAS box and scheduling daily backups.

[Nick]

I think it's something in the Brighton air, it eats away at compnents. I've gone through numerous graphics cards, a couple of HDDs, power supplies, I even had a brand new motherboard catch on fire (really) the first time I turned it on!

I hate it and I can't afford it, however I still love PCs.

[Thrik]

I'd fucking gut myself if my hard drive died. I'm hoping it'll hold out until I do the grand Vista upgrade in a couple of months, at which point I'll do a thorough filter and scrap what I don't want anymore. An epic job considering this thing has a pretty much complete archive of everything ever going back to 2000.

It might be an idea to get an external hard drive and just bung everything on there as a precaution, though. I'll be doing that anyway before I start the upgrade process, but it'd probably be wise to bring it forward. :¬:

[Jake]

It's .... moronic to not back stuff up. I was one who was always in the "I know, I know, yeah yeah" camp for ages, but at one point at college the computers I used to do the school newspaper crapped out and we lost all our templates... and then I wanted to kill myself. And now I always use a computer with a DVD-R and back up my Projects folder onto a few disks at least two or three times a year. I should probably do it more often than that, but who can be bothered?

[Thrik]

Oh I've got some dumps that're about eight months old, but I've never been able to kick myself into even the minimal monthly regime that we all know we should do but just don't. It seems that no matter who I talk to and no matter how embedded into computing their hobbies or work is, there's a 99% chance they don't have a regular and frequent backup system. And of course, it's always losing those most recent things that'll immediately hurt the most.

I can definitely see where Apple got their inspiration for Time Machine.

[DanJW]

I think it's something in the Brighton air, it eats away at compnents. I've gone through numerous graphics cards, a couple of HDDs, power supplies, I even had a brand new motherboard catch on fire (really) the first time I turned it on!

I hate it and I can't afford it, however I still love PCs.

My PC's have never exploded. Sometimes they refuse to work - right now my pc sometimes freezes and won't to boot up again, but I'm pretty sure that's something to do with the processor contacts. I just reach in ang jiggle a few components and then it's fine again for a few days.

Anyway, yes, my PC's do not explode. Maybe I'm just better at building them than you and Spaff?

[Marek]

I can definitely see where Apple got their inspiration for Time Machine.

But that's version control not backup right?

[miffy495]

I have two HDDs in my current PC. My primary drive works fine, so I have no worries with losing all my important files. My secondary on the other hand craps out if you look at it funny. It's not like a crash, my computer just stops realizing that it exists. Then I wait a couple of days, reboot, and it's back. No idea why this keeps happening, and I should probably back that drive up sometime. Still, nothing on there is crucial, so I don't let it bother me too much.

[Oath]

But that's version control not backup right?

No, it does backup too.

[Nick]

Maybe I'm just better at building them than you and Spaff?

Maybe so, but when I went on holiday last year I got back to find the fan on my graphics card had fallen off and was dangling by it's wires. I fail to see how that was down to me, or in fact how it even happened at all.

[Roderick]

I have a foolproof system: an external harddrive that is an exact mirror of my computer's. All new files first go to 'limbo', which is my desktop, and once it starts getting outrageously cluttered, I clean it up by simultaneously copying the files to both my internal and external drive. Barring the house burning down or amazing bad luck, it's a good and safe system, requiring minimal work.

[Salka]

My PC's have never exploded. Sometimes they refuse to work - right now my pc sometimes freezes and won't to boot up again, but I'm pretty sure that's something to do with the processor contacts. I just reach in ang jiggle a few components and then it's fine again for a few days.

Anyway, yes, my PC's do not explode. Maybe I'm just better at building them than you and Spaff?

My PCs neither explode, nor refuse to work.

Maybe I'm just better at PCs than you.

Maybe we can trace this problem back to your poncy middle-class upbringings.

[DanJW]

Maybe so, but when I went on holiday last year I got back to find the fan on my graphics card had fallen off and was dangling by it's wires. I fail to see how that was down to me, or in fact how it even happened at all.

Maybe you have a mouse in your CPU?

[Nick]

Maybe we can trace this problem back to your poncy middle-class upbringings.

You had a pony.