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Cipher
01-18-2006, 04:50 AM
So, my harddrive chose a fun time to commit seppuku. I got over it (bought a 160gig HD, wee!), and had everything reinstalled, but...

...I couldn't remember what the url to this site was, for the life of me. :eep:

But now I have found it, and now I return! Rejoice, ye masses! :D

eestlinc
01-18-2006, 04:54 AM
the url is http://forums.eyesonff.com

welcome back, although we don't allow I'm back threads.

but we can talk about hard drive death.

The Man
01-18-2006, 04:55 AM
My external hard drive died around this time last year. I lost significant amounts of music, porn, and old eoff threads. I mourned it dearly.

Erdrick Holmes
01-18-2006, 04:57 AM
My harddrives got reformatted like.... 12 times just to get my computer to work. I too lost about 1/65 of my hentai when that happened.

Miriel
01-18-2006, 04:59 AM
My brother wiped my harddrive my Junior year in high school, wiping out thousands of digital pictures. Thousands. I wept the entire night. Seriously, full on sobbing into the pillow weeping.

Kawaii Ryűkishi
01-18-2006, 05:00 AM
My laptop's hard drive crashed a few weeks ago and I lost prettymuch everything I'd accumulated from August 2004 to December 2005. The extra-fun part is that Norbert-X conked out a couple weeks before that, so there's no longer any record of that stuff in my own possession <i>or</i> on the web.

Cipher
01-18-2006, 05:02 AM
It's actually funny how the HDD Crash happened. I was getting real interesting' sector errors, and my OS kept crashing like nobody's business. After one particular crash, I rebooted and happened to notice that my recycle bin was full.

Mind you, I'm a nosy sort, and couldn't recall deleting anything. So I went in, and what should be there but...

'Windows.'

Now, you're probably thinking 'haha yeah right', because that's what I was thinking too. And then I emptied it.

Computer froze again a few hours later, so I hard-reset. But where I expected my ultra-shiny Matrix Loading Screen to appear, I got a long list of errors, and the disappearance of my OS.

Tried to do a reformat, but got the most serious HECK NO ever. :eep:

The HDD was probably repairable, but it was only a 40gigger anyway, and I needed m'self a larger drive. So it was off to Craigslist, to purchase another one.

eestlinc
01-18-2006, 05:02 AM
My laptop's hard drive crashed a few weeks ago and I lost prettymuch everything I'd accumulated from August 2004 to December 2005. The extra-fun part is that Norbert-X conked out a couple weeks before that, so there's no longer any record of that stuff in my own possession <i>or</i> on the web.
I noticed some of your old image posts were gone.

edczxcvbnm
01-18-2006, 05:03 AM
I will buy a new harddrive in about 2 years. They have this new way to write to the harddrive now. Vertically. They say it will increase harddrive space by 5 fold easily in the coming years. I will pick one of the third gen ones up and get a sweet terabyte of space on it and the partition the /xxx.gif/xxx.gif/xxx.gif/xxx.gif of out if and run a raid configuration on it :D

Samuraid
01-18-2006, 05:05 AM
I have never personally had a harddrive fail. But I set up a RAID 1 array when I built a new computer back in June...just in case.

Cipher
01-18-2006, 05:07 AM
Mmm....Terabyte... *drool*

And partitioning is just what I did this time around. XP only requires about 10 - 15 gigs worth of space to operate smoothly, so my C: partition only has about that much; the rest is my D:.

Everything I install, I install onto my D drive. That way, if C crashes or does something, I'll still have all my prefs. Not to mention it makes it a little harder for viruses to copy themselves onto any of my precious files.

...but I backed everything up, just in case. :D

eestlinc
01-18-2006, 05:09 AM
I didn't have my harddrive fail, but the IDE controller did once, which has the same effect.

Kawaii Ryűkishi
01-18-2006, 05:25 AM
I noticed some of your old image posts were gone.Yeah, if anybody ever right-clicked any of my stuff it'd be nice of them to share.

My name is...something..?
01-18-2006, 05:29 AM
My hard drive died a few months ago.
I had to leave for about a week.
Notice that it died about two weeks after I got back from my 3 month hiatus. Once I got it fixed though, this was the first place I went.

The Man
01-18-2006, 05:31 AM
My laptop's hard drive crashed a few weeks ago and I lost prettymuch everything I'd accumulated from August 2004 to December 2005. The extra-fun part is that Norbert-X conked out a couple weeks before that, so there's no longer any record of that stuff in my own possession or on the web.man, that sucks. Didn't you lose an earlier collection of stuff, as well? I remember asking you if you had any of my old posts shortly after my drive went kaput.

I guess one important lesson we should both learn from this is to make backups of stuff.

eestlinc
01-18-2006, 05:35 AM
that's all I have, sadly.

Kawaii Ryűkishi
01-18-2006, 05:35 AM
Didn't you lose an earlier collection of stuff, as well? I remember asking you if you had any of my old posts shortly after my drive went kaput.When was that? I lost a lot of stuff a couple years ago but prettymuch all of it was able to be recovered eventually. If only I could be that lucky all of the time.

The Man
01-18-2006, 05:36 AM
probably about nine months ago. I'm not on my own computer right now, but if you've found any of the lengthy character essays or whatnot that I posted back before eoff got prrrrrrrrrruned, then I wouldn't mind having them back tomorrow or something. xD

Kawaii Ryűkishi
01-18-2006, 05:46 AM
I think that was more of a case of my never having saved any of that stuff in the first place.
that's all I have, sadly.Thanks. It's actually pre-crisis, but it's the thought that counts.

eestlinc
01-18-2006, 05:55 AM
yea, that's and oldbie. before crisis, if you will.

The Man
01-18-2006, 05:58 AM
I think that was more of a case of my never having saved any of that stuff in the first place.I'm pretty sure I remembered you saying you had a "The Man" folder a couple years ago, but I guess that was just a couple years ago. xD

Raistlin
01-18-2006, 06:06 AM
I've lost pretty much everything from pre-2002. All the old ICQ chats, mostly. I didn't and still don't save many pictures/threads/whatever from the forums. I used to rely on Bleys to post that old crap, and now I just rely on Kishi.

Let that be a moral lesson: there's always someone else who will do the hard work for you.

Kawaii Ryűkishi
01-18-2006, 06:07 AM
I'm pretty sure I remembered you saying you had a "The Man" folder a couple years ago, but I guess that was just a couple years ago. xDI do have a The Man folder, but it's mostly filled with images of your goofy hairdo.

The Man
01-18-2006, 06:50 AM
ah, touch&#233;.

eestlinc
01-18-2006, 06:52 AM
the freedfro

Tasura
01-18-2006, 07:03 AM
I havent had an hdd falure hope, and I pray to whatever being giverns technology that i dont, my exhdd has 125gb of anime on it, I dont want to lose that.

o_O
01-18-2006, 10:20 PM
If your hard drive dies (read: dies, not "you accidentally formatted it" or "pulled out the IDE cable while the computron was running" :p) put it in the freezer for a couple of hours, and odds are it will be fine long enough to recover a fair bit of data from.

rubah
01-18-2006, 10:21 PM
I had to get my harddrive replaced on this in 2002 when it stopped copying, but it's been quiet since, with only two formattings.

Now, my old computer was another story. It stopped working frequently and would make creepy whirring ghost noises. However, odds were that after you shook it vigorously, it would begin to work again.

faster skating penguin
01-18-2006, 10:22 PM
yeah ...

search engines are cool like that

Shoeberto
01-18-2006, 10:30 PM
Never had any failures. I had to wipe my HD once and lost a very important RM2k project, because I was too stupid to back it up, but s'okay.

I realize that I've also lost all of my logs over the years, and have nothing from before 2004 probably, but I don't go through reading that stuff all too often so it's no biggie.

The Man
01-18-2006, 10:59 PM
If your hard drive dies (read: dies, not "you accidentally formatted it" or "pulled out the IDE cable while the computron was running" :p) put it in the freezer for a couple of hours, and odds are it will be fine long enough to recover a fair bit of data from.I wish I had known that last year :mad2:

starseeker
01-21-2006, 11:07 AM
My younger brother crashed the computer over Xmas, Windows wouldn't run at all so the drive had to be completely reformatted. I lost all my work, and more importantly some pics I needed for coursework, and all my game files from the Sims 2 which I spent ages playing. The only stuff that survived was my music collection which I'd copied onto my mp3 player. I still haven't been able to install everything on yet, I have to ask permission from my dad to do anything, so unfair.
The other computer we have is being very unreliable, its suffering from old age so we're getting a new one. The longest any of our computers lived for was 11 years give or take and it has the processing power of a GBA (it was bought in '89) They don't make computers like they used to anymore, they're not expected to live more than 5 years without being replaced.

Twisted Tinkerbell
01-21-2006, 12:23 PM
We had to reformat my computer a few times last year before it was all finally sorted out. It was finally fixed just before I felt the need to rip all my hair out and jump up and down on the computer. I was lucky, I didn't lose any of my pics or my music.

Leeza
01-21-2006, 06:10 PM
I've had a couple of hard drives die on me. However, after my first one died and I lost all of my music, pics, etc., I started to back everything up onto discs on a regular basis. So when my last hard drive died I didn't have to cry at all.

Kishi, I have right clicked on some of your stuff. I'll post them there as I find them. My filing system stinks. :)