Finally...
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.
But now I have found it, and now I return! Rejoice, ye masses!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I noticed some of your old image posts were gone.Originally Posted by Kawaii Ryűkishi
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 [img]/xxx.gif[/img][img]/xxx.gif[/img][img]/xxx.gif[/img][img]/xxx.gif[/img] of out if and run a raid configuration on it
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.
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.
I didn't have my harddrive fail, but the IDE controller did once, which has the same effect.
Yeah, if anybody ever right-clicked any of my stuff it'd be nice of them to share.
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 itching sensation is a good thing.
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.
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