(ot)my hard drive has died

chavender · Aug 4, 2004

my hard drive has suffled of it's mortal coil and left me to fend for myself ,why oh why didn't i back it up ,my last back up to data disk was last month so i've lost lots of data and info and all my recent e-mails so if i was surpose to get in touch with anyone then i'm sorry ,i'l get it sorted soon as
i can i'l be using this 1 gig hd
till then but may not be online as much till the weekend i've got
my e-mail up and running now,
i'd forgotten the joys of using windows 98 till this morning!!.

Nigel Moors 2 · Aug 6, 2004

Don;t get going on about Win 98 or anything MS, Cheeky Monkey will start going off on one!

Shrek · Aug 6, 2004

Chav,

Is there any possibility of using some Drive Doctor software to try and recover files? Or does the drive not even register on the bios?

alan · Aug 6, 2004

yes, thank you, i am not the only one. my drive packed up the other day, i lost almost every thing only just getting it sorted now, replaced it with a 120gb instead of the 40, luckly i got 2 drives and only the main one went down so i didnt lose all my photos and music.

jason fisher · Aug 6, 2004

you wouldn't lose your photos if you put em on a cd.before the drive crashed.

now alan repeat after me, the first thing alan must do before faffing about on fm next is back up all his precious photos on to suitable not volatile storage media.

now go and write that out 50 times.

alan · Aug 6, 2004

"i must throw my pc out the window" sounds much better.

besides what the point in 2 120gb hdd's if i put everything on cd?

jason fisher · Aug 6, 2004

cd's dont crash so easily.

alan · Aug 6, 2004

i kept meaning to, but it was going to take about 20 hours to burn to dvd and i couldnt be bothered. lesson learnt the hard way.

chavender · Aug 7, 2004

fitted my new 80gig hd and i've been doing
the re-installation for the last two days
trying to remember just what software i had on my old drive ,i know i'm bound to have forgotten something!.i'l probably have a go at retrieving the data later when
i can find the time but i'm not hopefull.it
just means i've probably lost a load of it
and will have to trawl the internet for any
replacement pictures and info (fishing related).

(ot)my hard drive has died

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