Just One Of These Days……

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Posted on November 4th, 2008 in Misc

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….

10 Comments For This Post

BSR-WiX
November 4th, 2008 at 00:22

Well, we have all been there at some time.
I hope all is ok now. i am sure allot of people missed you badly.
Montoya
November 4th, 2008 at 00:23

Thanks! Yeah, I´m good, live goes on
stabiz
November 4th, 2008 at 00:25

Bad news, Monty!

*off to do backups*
Darman
November 4th, 2008 at 01:17

Wasn’t the external supposed to be a backup? You should backup your backups…
Montoya
November 4th, 2008 at 01:18

No, it wasn’t a backup, it was the main data-disk for my Mac. :???:
unklepepper
November 4th, 2008 at 01:56

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
November 4th, 2008 at 18:40

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!
ADC David
November 5th, 2008 at 01:17

Sorry to hear this Montoya and as stabiz said off to burn baby burn some backup dvd’s.
Husky42
November 5th, 2008 at 11:21

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
November 5th, 2008 at 20:15

no worries my friend

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