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Be
07-26-2008, 03:48 AM
it made a noise like leatherface killed it with a chainsaw then it just vanished like yoda in return of the jedi......isn't there a way to extract info from a dead hard drive... because my ouija board isn't working

Twisted.Mellow
07-26-2008, 04:52 AM
Umm. That's bad. If there's actually a problem with the hardware (which it sounds like there is), and the data on there is important enough to pay a chunk o money for, then you'll have to take it to someone who will either try and replace the circuit board on it, or remove the platters and put them in another drive. It won't be cheap though. And even then there's no guarantee...

Sorry, Be...

Harmeister
07-26-2008, 06:33 AM
There are ways to recover information from a dead drive. If I recall correctly, you have a mac, right? take it down to the mac store and show them at the genius bar. They will take it in to get repaired *and* try and recover as much data as they can from the drive.

Tshaw
07-26-2008, 10:03 AM
I hate dead hard drives!
I lost a ton of good music back in the day because of that.
But then I met my good friend MR. Raid 5.

Mistress M
07-26-2008, 10:47 AM
Oh wow, that sucks!!! I'm really sorry, Be :(

Be
07-26-2008, 03:37 PM
:(

Harmeister
07-26-2008, 03:40 PM
I tried to buzz you, but no answer. Did you get it to an apple store? How much did it set you back?

LumtheMad
07-27-2008, 09:51 AM
In a kindred spirits sort of thing, a hardrive of mine decided to also take the last train to crapsville. Mine thankfully was a secondary drive though so i think i just lost a huge game i had loaded up on it.

Which brings me to my statment of ...there are two things which can drive me insane....

1. My parrot named Fuzzy.

And

2. Issues with my computer

Good luck on retrieving things. Hopefully you can. I've had my computer die where i lost it all and wasn't the happiest of campers.

Wheeljak
07-29-2008, 12:53 PM
I don't have any suggestions beyond what's already been said, but I gotta tell ya that I can empathize with ya, Be. I've lost maybe 3 hard drives. Fortunately, most of the stuff was replaceable or already backed up, but there were a few things, like my family tree, that I worked so hard on... just gone. Just plain gone.:(
I'd love to set up a RAID system, but I don't know how, and I don't have that kind of money to spend on more hard drives.

ElizabethX
07-29-2008, 03:32 PM
That is so horrible that you lost your family tree. I can't imagine that. You've gotta keep hard copies!!!

Brian221
07-30-2008, 04:43 PM
We've got top men working on the situation...

Bonkman
07-31-2008, 01:58 PM
We've got top men working on the situation...

Who?

ChrisLDog
07-31-2008, 02:09 PM
Top People.

ElizabethX
07-31-2008, 03:51 PM
Top men.

ChrisLDog
07-31-2008, 04:12 PM
D'oh! Screwed that up... :doh:

Be
07-31-2008, 04:14 PM
yeaaaaa brian but that top men hing sounded a lil' brokeback

Etherspin
07-31-2008, 04:22 PM
We've got top men working on the situation...
tom cruise, val Kilmer and brian221 :eek:

syxxpm
08-01-2008, 09:14 AM
yeaaaaa brian but that top men hing sounded a lil' brokeback

would you have preffered submissive bottom men into water polo and fisting??

wendyful04
08-01-2008, 11:36 AM
When a woman is in labor, medical people stick their entire hands up into the vaginal. More than once.

Wheeljak
08-01-2008, 12:34 PM
When a woman is in labor, medical people stick their entire hands up into the vaginal. More than once.
They had to reach in like that because your son was a difficult birth. He was born with a full afro.

Tshaw
08-02-2008, 02:00 PM
would you have preffered submissive bottom men into water polo and fisting??
How the hell did hard drives dying turn in to this?
LOL!!! :think:

syxxpm
08-04-2008, 10:29 AM
well..the top men have hard drives and the bottom men install it.....:P

Brian221
08-11-2008, 09:44 AM
Hey...just got back from a weeks vacation and GOOD GOD WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED TO THIS THREAD MY EYES !@!!@!!

Wheeljak
08-11-2008, 10:18 AM
Hey...just got back from a weeks vacation and GOOD GOD WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED TO THIS THREAD MY EYES !@!!@!!
How was Fire Island, "top man"?