Bl00dFox
New Member
Hi guys!
In my opinion, I reckon the users who post in the hard drive section of CF are the ones that truly know pain. Losing Data hurts, It really does. I've gone through it and I hope no one will ever have to go through what I did. Thats why I decided to share my experiences with you.
OK heres the scenario. I just returned from India and with it, brought some VERY important data. Photos of my family, my grandma, and even information of the shares and bank records my dad had.
I land at Sydney on Saturday morning, plug in my external HDD to view the data and nothing happened. The LED of the external enclosure just flashed. Thats all. I could hear click-click-click-*silence*. I tried a million times. Nothing.
I died.
BTW, I have an 80GB SAMSUNG 2.5" HDD in a generic enclosure.
I didnt tell my dad, fearing for my life. I tried everything. Another cable, another enclosure, everything. By now your human instincts should be alerting you of what pain I underwent. I even tried freezing the damn thing - no luck.
In situations like this, you want to smash the HDD, quit school, and join a rock band for the rest of your life. Thats exactly what I did (except the quit school bit). I dropped the HDD on the carpet from about 50cm a couple of time. And I connect, It works. I quickly backup all the data. Im saved.
For all you fellow human beings that have gone through a similar situation, i empathize you. The lesson is dont be scared to try something stupid - it worked for me. Try freezing it, dropping it, whatever. (as a last resort)
The final lesson: back up your data. Please dont go through what I did. I hope this helps.
Time for me to get 5 300GB HDD's in a five-way RAID-1 config!
In my opinion, I reckon the users who post in the hard drive section of CF are the ones that truly know pain. Losing Data hurts, It really does. I've gone through it and I hope no one will ever have to go through what I did. Thats why I decided to share my experiences with you.
OK heres the scenario. I just returned from India and with it, brought some VERY important data. Photos of my family, my grandma, and even information of the shares and bank records my dad had.
I land at Sydney on Saturday morning, plug in my external HDD to view the data and nothing happened. The LED of the external enclosure just flashed. Thats all. I could hear click-click-click-*silence*. I tried a million times. Nothing.
I died.
BTW, I have an 80GB SAMSUNG 2.5" HDD in a generic enclosure.
I didnt tell my dad, fearing for my life. I tried everything. Another cable, another enclosure, everything. By now your human instincts should be alerting you of what pain I underwent. I even tried freezing the damn thing - no luck.
In situations like this, you want to smash the HDD, quit school, and join a rock band for the rest of your life. Thats exactly what I did (except the quit school bit). I dropped the HDD on the carpet from about 50cm a couple of time. And I connect, It works. I quickly backup all the data. Im saved.
For all you fellow human beings that have gone through a similar situation, i empathize you. The lesson is dont be scared to try something stupid - it worked for me. Try freezing it, dropping it, whatever. (as a last resort)
The final lesson: back up your data. Please dont go through what I did. I hope this helps.
Time for me to get 5 300GB HDD's in a five-way RAID-1 config!
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