Lost my Boot Drive!

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For the last one week or so was having problems with my main drive (Seagate 60 GB - ST360021A) on my home desktop. Tried many things including updating MBR and updating the OS. Everytime the system use to freeze and I use to loose my work. Today, was trying to write a CD-R and lost it as it turned out to be a coaster.

Finally from my laptop created a Seagate Diagnostic Tool Disk, booted from it and ran the Diagnostic Program. To my horrer the simple test failed and was advised to run a complete test. At the moment the test is running, however, the preliminary report says BAD SECTORS. Luckily my data is saved on the other 120 GB SATA drive in the same system having a 100 GB video editing partition and balance for back-up.

This drive was about 2 years old so I will not get a replacement under warranty. Will get a new drive tomorrow and start from scratch to build my system all over again. A painful process indeed, but, no choice!

I am posting this only to remind you to Back up your data from time to time otherwise you never know when you loose your hard drive to bad sectors.

:mad::mad::mad:
 
Oh dear :( Is the drive completely unusable now?

(I'm going to do a system backup now!)
 
Lost my Boot Drive!

Don't look at me ... I ain't got it. ;)


... Backing up my system now. :D
 
Well the test is underway and the report continues to come up with bad sectors every now and then and it also reported bad sectors were page file was located, no wonder the blue screen yesterday came up and said "Dumping memory to disk". Anyway, once the test finishes I will have to install the OS on the new drive and use this as slave to try to extract the data. Will report if I am successful but it will take me a few days, maybe middle of the week if all is going OK.
 
I am glad you guys are backing up your data, that was the very purpose of my post. Glad to know even when I am in a fix I am helping others realise how important the BACKUP is. I recall that is what I wrote in my article "Back-up Solutions" just little while back. :)
 
always got a backup image of my boot drive!

came in handy last week when an experiment went wrong!
 
I always move my most important files just over the network to my parents PC which happens to be the no-frills version of mine.

The problem is, however, files tend to accumalate and i have 2 of the drives they have one of so you can see the problem...

I also tend to dump a fair few 3Gb DV-AVI movies from our digital camcorder on there as i dont like my PC to be cluttered up in any way.

Well Quaddy - i hope everything goes ok, my condolences to hear about your bad misfortune. It has to be one of the worst components to loose - especially if you havent backed anything up. My deepest sympathies and i hope you have it all sorted out soon mate.

Chris
 
Extract from Murphy's Law of Computing:

He who laughs last has made the backup :D

Chris, need not worry all is OK here. Thanks for the condolence will pass on to the family of Seagate.

Quad trots off to consider a Western Digital Hard Drive.
 
That's a bit of a bummer Quad :( Sorry to hear that.

Just a week or two ago I bought a copy of Acronis True Image and using the default normal compression, I backed up my C drive (around 43Gb on there atm - lots of games) to a partition on one of the other two 80Gb storage drives.

On my other machine, which doesn't have any games on it at all, just software for Office, video and sound, I managed to compress the C drive to just under 4.6Gb and was thus able to store it on a DVD.

A nifty little piece of software, True Image, cost me £33.12 for the download after being converted from dollars on my CC. I've tried both Ghost and Disk Image before, but I really do prefer this one.

Good luck with your re-install Quad.
 
Quad Sorry To Hear About Your Failed Drive... Why Not Invest In A Muti Billion Pound Project Like One Of Those Rooms In The Film "Wargames".. Where There Are Massive Tape Drives And Flashing Lights Backing Up All That Data.. It Would Impress The Girlfriend Too :)..

Luckily I Dont Have Much On Mine Worth Backing Up... <----- (Ha... Just Wait Till The Fool Looses His Drive... Then A Differnt Song He Will Sing)..........:)
 
Spooky Mouse said:
It Would Impress The Girlfriend Too :)..
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You mean "mistress" don't you? Since I am married with two kids (boy 14 and girl 11) "mistress" would certainly be an option. I will discuss with me wife tomorrow if we can afford one or not. Thanks for the thought provoking tip :D
 
Quad.. lol.... Sorry .. Just Trying To Help!!..:)

Quad..... My Girlfriend Has The Moaning Tounges Of A Thousand Wives!!
(Come To Think If It ... That Sounds Arabic Dont You Think)?
 
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