Really Panicked Cause Huge Movie Collection At Risk

thandakid · 05-03-2009, 02:14 PM

I have this hard drive
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16822136186

And i have a huge movie database in it about 491Gb of movies all purchased

My hard drive was working fine till today i had connected it and my younger sister tripped on it and it dropped on ground from 18cms of height i kept it aside for few minutes and then plugged it in apparently it was working fine the movies were working but It hangs sometime I try to run a movie the computer stops responding some times usually when i am mltitasking
can you tell how can i solve that problem i dont want it to hang again and again and it is also kept near my hometheatre speakers so the speaker magnet effects it so what can i do i really want to keep my video collection i dont want to buy a new hardrive

Hugh9191 · 05-03-2009, 02:33 PM

For a start I wouldn't keep it near my home theatre system unless it is magnetically shielded.

Second backups are everything. Back up all your data regularly because you never know when a HDD will fail or a power supply will take out your whole system or whatever. The price of a removable hard disk now days is easily worth the worth or all your data.

Also AFTER BACKING UP I would test the hard drive with the manufacturers data tools.

PS. Just realised this is a removable disk. Same still applies. Keep a back up of all your stuff on your computer. Don't trust one drive with all your valuable data.

thandakid · 05-03-2009, 07:20 PM

my comp hardrive is 320gigs and hard drive data is 491 gb how do i backup it and ok i wont keep the home theatre system .I tried that too it works sometime bu sometimes it just hangs the computer so what else can i do to prevent the wreckage of my drive and btw thanks

thandakid · 05-04-2009, 11:32 AM

i RAN a diagnostic it says everything is fine but stil whn i hold it something magnetic acts i t feel it turningmy hand and also the videos hang sometime what should i do can i change the external enclosure

**bomberboysk** · 05-04-2009, 02:25 PM

Quote:

256GB Internal SSD 2x300GB VelociRaptor+ 2x2TB WD

Seems to be a bit more than 320gb of storage....

laznz1 · 05-04-2009, 02:38 PM

yea not the first time you slipped

thandakid · 05-04-2009, 05:42 PM

nope i dont have that now i have my acer 6935g as i have told in many threads and even submitted my pi score you can check

**bomberboysk** · 05-04-2009, 09:10 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by thandakid

nope i dont have that now i have my acer 6935g as i have told in many threads and even submitted my pi score you can check

Well, real rigs should be put in your sig as it helps out when your trying to get help with something...

05-03-2009, 02:14 PM	#1 (permalink)
thandakid banned Join Date: Apr 2007 Age: 13 Posts: 384	Really Panicked Cause Huge Movie Collection At Risk I have this hard drive http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16822136186 And i have a huge movie database in it about 491Gb of movies all purchased My hard drive was working fine till today i had connected it and my younger sister tripped on it and it dropped on ground from 18cms of height i kept it aside for few minutes and then plugged it in apparently it was working fine the movies were working but It hangs sometime I try to run a movie the computer stops responding some times usually when i am mltitasking can you tell how can i solve that problem i dont want it to hang again and again and it is also kept near my hometheatre speakers so the speaker magnet effects it so what can i do i really want to keep my video collection i dont want to buy a new hardrive

05-03-2009, 02:33 PM	#2 (permalink)
Hugh9191 Gold Member Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Chester, UK Posts: 409	For a start I wouldn't keep it near my home theatre system unless it is magnetically shielded. Second backups are everything. Back up all your data regularly because you never know when a HDD will fail or a power supply will take out your whole system or whatever. The price of a removable hard disk now days is easily worth the worth or all your data. Also AFTER BACKING UP I would test the hard drive with the manufacturers data tools. PS. Just realised this is a removable disk. Same still applies. Keep a back up of all your stuff on your computer. Don't trust one drive with all your valuable data. __________________ Nauru our homeland, the land we dearly love Gigabyte GA-M56S-S3 AMD 64 Athlon 4200+ 3 Gigs of DDRII RAM Seagate 500 Gig SATA II Old IDE CD Rom Drive Asus Lightscribe SATA DVDRW Nvidia 8400GS Yuraku 21" Wide and Dell 15" TFT Monitors

05-04-2009, 02:38 PM	#6 (permalink)
laznz1 Diamond Member Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Resident Kiwi Age: 17 Posts: 2,202	yea not the first time you slipped __________________ RNZSigs If you only knew how much it hurts

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thandakid banned Join Date: Apr 2007 Age: 13 Posts: 384	nope i dont have that now i have my acer 6935g as i have told in many threads and even submitted my pi score you can check