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Just One Of These Days……

Posted on November 4th, 2008 in Misc – 10 Comments

My apologies for the complete lack of updates in the past 30 hours. It wasn’t that nothing newsworthy happened in this community of ours but yesterday was just a day to quickly forget.

Turning on your 3 months old 1 TB external hard drive and hearing nothing but ugly and distinct clicks tells you that this ain’t your day. The drive’s headcrash took over 800 GBs of data with it, including all my backups of earlier VirtualR versions, my collection of sim racing downloads as well as my beloved iTunes database.

The problem with backups is that you usually start to think about it when it’s already too late….


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  • http://www.bsim-racing.com BSR-WiX

    Well, we have all been there at some time.
    I hope all is ok now. i am sure allot of people missed you badly.

  • http://www.virtualr.net Montoya

    Thanks! Yeah, I´m good, live goes on :cool:

  • stabiz

    Bad news, Monty!

    *off to do backups*

  • Darman

    Wasn’t the external supposed to be a backup? You should backup your backups… :shock:

  • http://www.virtualr.net Montoya

    No, it wasn’t a backup, it was the main data-disk for my Mac. :???:

  • unklepepper

    Been meaning to buy a backup drive for all the photos of my 1 month old baby girl. I will right now. There so cheap these days! 1 for my sim downloads also then!

  • timwheatley

    Ack, I hate it when something like that happens. It’s happened to me so many times now.

    I’ve got into a routine (that’s the hard bit) now and there’s nothing on my PC I would lose if it went belly up except a few car setups from iRacing and save games from games I play. I have a huge iTunes collection (threw out all my CD’s after importing them, too), if I didn’t make regular backups of that lot and lost it I would be devastated. I can imagine what you went through!

  • http://forums.speedgeezers.net/index.php?showforum=69 ADC David

    Sorry to hear this Montoya and as stabiz said off to burn baby burn some backup dvd’s.

  • Husky42

    One think you might try – With external drivers a lot of the time it is not the drive itself that go’s bad but is the circuit connector in between the drives.

    I had an external take a poo and thought it was toast but based on the fact (its just a normal drive) inside i pulled the drive out and hooked it up to my pc using my external SATA as the drive use sata hookups.

    click spin up bam everything there without any problems. Drive is still in the system to this day just as a internal no longer an external.

    This was with a WD drive.

  • maxs

    no worries my friend :cool:

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