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Well my hard drive got corruped...
« on: May 05, 2008, 06:27:37 pm »
The good news: Most of my documents, music, and pretty much everything has gone untouched.

The bad news: All of my photos that I've ever taken (around 7,000 of them) and my entire 4chan folder (which some may say is a good thing)...

Lesson Learned: Always, ALWAYS backup your files.

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Re: Well my hard drive got corruped...
« Reply #1 on: May 05, 2008, 06:28:53 pm »
All my best photos are posted on Flickr.  Like I've been telling you, you should get an account there.

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Re: Well my hard drive got corruped...
« Reply #2 on: May 05, 2008, 06:30:55 pm »
All my best photos are in little yellow boxes.

Well, at least the cops didn't take it this time!

I've been thinking of external hard drives.
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Re: Well my hard drive got corruped...
« Reply #3 on: May 05, 2008, 06:32:23 pm »
Jay, I have negs of most of mine - when I get them developed I get a CD of jpegs and a sheet of negatives. 

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Re: Well my hard drive got corruped...
« Reply #4 on: May 05, 2008, 06:32:58 pm »
my condolences

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Re: Well my hard drive got corruped...
« Reply #5 on: May 05, 2008, 06:41:36 pm »
awww that super sucks : (!!!
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Re: Well my hard drive got corruped...
« Reply #6 on: May 05, 2008, 06:58:00 pm »
Corrupted? How so? Have you tried any recovery software yet?

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Re: Well my hard drive got corruped...
« Reply #7 on: May 05, 2008, 08:51:56 pm »
Ha.Ha.

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Re: Well my hard drive got corruped...
« Reply #8 on: May 05, 2008, 08:54:53 pm »
That really sucks! Maybe you should lay off /b/ for a while (totally irrelevant in the reason why your computer is corrupted but I like to make fun of you anyway)

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Re: Well my hard drive got corruped...
« Reply #9 on: May 05, 2008, 09:05:39 pm »
That really sucks! Maybe you should lay off /b/ for a while (totally irrelevant in the reason why your computer is corrupted but I like to make fun of you anyway)
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Re: Well my hard drive got corruped...
« Reply #10 on: May 05, 2008, 10:35:52 pm »
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Re: Well my hard drive got corruped...
« Reply #11 on: May 05, 2008, 11:15:02 pm »
well at least you can start a new with no /cake


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Re: Well my hard drive got corruped...
« Reply #12 on: May 06, 2008, 06:42:46 am »
I feel your pain. It's happened to me before as well..though luckily most of my pictures were up on my webhost so I just had to use my ftp program to get them back to my computer.

I pretty much have double copies of everything important on my computer for that very reason. I have like 5 external hard drives..lawlz.
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Re: Well my hard drive got corruped...
« Reply #13 on: May 06, 2008, 04:02:24 pm »
Corrupted? You finally noticed?

You had a fricking 4CHAN FOLDER!!!1
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Re: Well my hard drive got corruped...
« Reply #14 on: May 07, 2008, 05:08:25 pm »
So he is basing the corruption on what? His own behavior?
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Re: Well my hard drive got corruped...
« Reply #15 on: May 07, 2008, 06:48:27 pm »
Corrupted? How so? Have you tried any recovery software yet?

Yah, that's the first thing I tried. But I called up one of my friends who's the Uber IT guy (more so than I) and he said that the error that Windows Scan Disk gave me meant that all of my files are gone, for good...

To be honest, I don't know about that. Unless your hard drive is clicking and refuses to turn on, I would have to imagine there's a way to salvage SOMETHING from the drive.

Do you happen to recall the error by any chance?

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Re: Well my hard drive got corruped...
« Reply #16 on: May 07, 2008, 09:10:02 pm »
Yeah, I concur with others that it sounds like the conclusion of data loss might be premature... the first thing to do when you think you might have data loss is stop using that hard drive. Use a special utility while booting from a different drive to make a disk image copy or to read it and attempt to recover data that never writes to the drive.

That said, even if it is beyond repair by normal means, there are data recovery services that specialize in piecing together data that has been badly corrupted or that is missing metadata. For example, if the corrupted files are fragmented, they could piece together the fragments into the original files by data analysis.

One service that I was told about was willing to recover data from flash memory when the microprocessor controller IC was lost, and stated they will reverse-engineer the wear-leveling algorithm from only the NAND IC if necessary. Their rates were somewhat high, but affordable (depending on your exact definition of "affordable"), and were flat rates based on the amount of data you desired to be recovered (increasing on a roughly logarithmic scale).

So I'm just saying, there are options here. :)
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Re: Well my hard drive got corruped...
« Reply #17 on: May 08, 2008, 05:39:33 pm »
Huzzah! Now your hard-drive may continue on uncorrupted (though I don't know if we can say the same about you, 4chan boy...) ^_^ I kid! I kid!


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Re: Well my hard drive got corruped...
« Reply #18 on: May 09, 2008, 08:23:15 am »
I figured there was a pretty good chance you wouldn't lose /everything/ ^_^; unless you had a catastrophic failure, like, a loud clicking sound.. *stares at his brother's hard drive and whimpers*

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Re: Well my hard drive got corruped...
« Reply #19 on: May 09, 2008, 09:22:52 am »
Oh damn Pat, I feel your pain. My lappy's hard drive fried on me and I lost all of my music again and such. Best Buy is being full of lies though so it's their fault D: They said they replaced my fried hard drive when all they did was reformat it again. Stupid idiots >: We must both spend our nights on 4chan looking for pictures again!

EDIT: Err nevermind about looking for pictures. Now you just have to send me all of your funny ones hahahaha.
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Re: Well my hard drive got corruped...
« Reply #20 on: May 09, 2008, 11:33:16 am »
All ur pr0nz r saved w00t!

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Re: Well my hard drive got corruped...
« Reply #21 on: May 21, 2008, 08:45:36 pm »
Not exactly related to your hard drive getting corrupted, but the IT guy here at work killed our work computer again! This makes twice. Don't know what he did besides install updates. The last time it was installing a new keyboard.
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