Am I the only one that..

Tseng · Post by **Tseng** » 26 Nov 2006, 20:36

... cant get back on?

Post by **Celsan** » 26 Nov 2006, 20:38

Nope, just posted about it in our GD forum too.

Post by **Rhaena** » 27 Nov 2006, 12:06

Nope, I can't still get on!

But that's probably because the hard drive failed in my primary gaming PC last night. So I won't be around for a couple of days while I sort this out and salvage/rebuild as much of my music, pictures and porn collection as I can. As well as having to re-install and patch WoW.

I may pop on every now and again on PC number 2 - but I'll be trying to patch number 1 together as a priority.

Anyone got any experience of data recovery from fucked hard drives?

Post by **Celsan** » 27 Nov 2006, 12:49

I'd start by getting a new drive in your machine first and putting a new OS on that. May take some tomfoolery to make sure you boot from the right drive (can always disconnect the old one when you're about to do the OS load to be 100% certain) once you've got a running OS on the machine you will find it a lot easier to access the drive.

Alternatively if you have enough space on your other machine, just plug the drive into that and get the data off it that way if you can. Then you can reformat the drive back in your original machine.

Post by **Rhaena** » 27 Nov 2006, 16:42

I've got the PC running on a spare hd from another machine.

Problem with the dead hard drive is it's lost the file structure completely. There's one file on the hd with a name made up of symbols. It's properly buggered it seems.

Windows is trying to recover the file structure - left it running when I went to work this morning. If that fails then I lose a hell of a lot of stuff (5 years of collecting music and the beginnings of a novel I'm writing). Luckily I think I've got a lot of it backed-up - I'm just not sure how much.

Tseng · Post by **Tseng** » 27 Nov 2006, 18:51

Nooo, No Azyrae. Now how will Tseng get his kicks, and get his fix of hotness?

Azyrae wrote:So I won't be around for a couple of days while I sort this out and salvage/rebuild as much of my porn collection

Glad to see you have your priorities right

Post by **Rhaena** » 28 Nov 2006, 14:50

Bah! It doesn't look good for all my data

Anyone geeky enough to have any experience rebuilding the FAT? I know there's a backup stored internally somewhere - and I can unlock it with some precise and clever hex editting but it's not something I'm particularly confident with.

Post by **Rhaena** » 30 Nov 2006, 13:27

Noooo! Scandisk has been runnning for 4 days and has fixed 6 million clusters of my hard drive. Judging by my (probably very dodgy) calculations my hard drive has about 50 million clusters! Noooooo! Noooooooo! And thrice Noooooooo!

Tseng · Post by **Tseng** » 30 Nov 2006, 13:59

**hugs** calm down dear... it's only a commercial

Er.. that's not good, is it? Hope you can save all your important stuff

Post by **Rhaena** » 30 Nov 2006, 14:21

I have found back-ups of the important stuff - thankfully my writings are all safe and up to date. All my games are all legal and above board so I can just reinstall those (I fear the patch time on WoW though). If it's not done by Friday night then it's in the bin and I'm reclaiming Pc number 1 for WoW purposes

PC 2 is a bit of laggy poo box where WoW is concerned, whereas on PC 1 it's like chocolate covered velvet kittens.

PC 3 sometimes dreams of playing WoW but WoW laughs at it and makes it cry. So it sits there emulating such things as Dig Dug, Double Dragon and 1942 while quietly sobbing to itself.