HDD Failure

**benjaminp** · Jun 17th, 2008, 1:43 am

Well one of my hard drives just failed...

Tonight will probably be sent salvaging what I can from the train wreck. Fortunatly I didn't keep anything of importance on it, so it isn't the end of the world.

**Kryvast** · Jun 17th, 2008, 3:27 am

Oh no is that the HDD where you keep you powrn?

mg:

Joke, too bad it's broken good thing no such important files on it, still covered with the warranty?

**GameOver** · Jun 17th, 2008, 5:23 am

Instead of having one huge HD's I have a few smaller ones so everything is backed up more than once

**zeus** · Jun 17th, 2008, 7:56 am

mg:

**Zap** · Jun 17th, 2008, 8:01 am

Get Tim to help you with replacing the hard drive.
He's somewhat of an expert by now. :P

**benjaminp** · Jun 17th, 2008, 8:09 am

Originally Posted by Zap

Get Tim to help you with replacing the hard drive.
He's somewhat of an expert by now. :P

Isn't Tim the one who can't have a server HDD for more than a couple of months without it failing?

Anyhow, it's not too much of a problem, just an inconvenience. The hard drive was a 300GB external, but to be honest I still have plenty of room left elsewhere.

**benjaminp** · Jun 19th, 2008, 5:44 am

GetDataBack worked great and I managed to recover everything. I did however run out of space so I had to be a little selective in what I 'saved'. I will try and recover it again once I buy a replacement hard drive.

**Zap** · Jun 19th, 2008, 5:47 am

Originally Posted by benjaminp

GetDataBack worked great and I managed to recover everything. I did however run out of space so I had to be a little selective in what I 'saved'. I will try and recover it again once I buy a replacement hard drive.

Got a link to it?

I'm always looking for a decent recovery utility.

**benjaminp** · Jun 19th, 2008, 5:50 am

Originally Posted by Zap

Got a link to it?

I'm always looking for a decent recovery utility.

I must admit I was a bit naughty and didn't buy it. I got a portable edition off of a friend.

GetDataBack - Data Recovery Software

**Zap** · Jun 19th, 2008, 6:38 am

Originally Posted by benjaminp

I must admit I was a bit naughty and didn't buy it. I got a portable edition off of a friend.

GetDataBack - Data Recovery Software

Was that the bootable CD version?

**benjaminp** · Jun 19th, 2008, 6:41 am

Originally Posted by Zap

Was that the bootable CD version?

Nah it was a 'portable' version which may have actually been free come to think of it. Because it was only a secondary drive I was able to recover through windows. Took about five hours to recover 300GB worth of data.