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filkertom ([personal profile] filkertom) wrote2006-08-19 08:07 pm
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Bad, Bad Day

External hard drive crash. Not sure how bad yet. Have to check if I backed up iTom songs. I DID back up most everything else about a week and a half ago; I don't THINK there's anything completely irreplacable. But it went down from a stupid chain of events I had no control over, and I'm not happy. More later.
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If I can be of assitance...

[identity profile] nimitzbrood.livejournal.com 2006-08-20 12:54 am (UTC)(link)
Blech. You have my sympathies. Drive failures are bad. :-( I hope you can at least get some of the data back or had good backups.

I've spent the last 15+ years fixing/repairing/working with computers so if you need a hand diagnosing I might be able to help.

[identity profile] scott644.livejournal.com 2006-08-20 04:17 am (UTC)(link)
eek! Good luck dude - crashes are a royal pain.

[identity profile] shockwave77598.livejournal.com 2006-08-20 03:59 pm (UTC)(link)
I think the heatwave is responsible. Lots of folks have had meltdowns lately. Heck, in my house, both laptops, the main computer and the PDA all failed within a couple of days last month. The only thing that didn't die was the lab computer (which was off the entire time).

The next computer is going to have a RAID1 array.

Also, you can pull the recent stuff back off the server and onto the computer.

[identity profile] sunfell.livejournal.com 2006-08-20 10:57 pm (UTC)(link)
Crashes are Not Fun. It's possible that something glitched up your USB drivers, since this is an external drive.

Sounds like you have some local brainpower to apply to it, but I'll be happy to help out, too.

And when you can, get yourself a Buffalo TeraStation. They're not horribly expensive, and hold a lot of data.
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