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Offline Chris_

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I need prayers for a hard drive.
« on: January 01, 2010, 12:11:55 PM »
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lildreamer316  (1000+ posts)        Thu Dec-31-09 07:24 PM
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I need prayers for a hard drive.

 The one we used to use as backup became husband's main drive when he had to start being a VJ at his new job. Now it's crashing; and all of our family photos and music is on there. It's still working - barely. We don't have the money to send it to a recovery place, I don't think.
Please pray for the hard drive. 
 

Godless souless people praying. They think God is Santa. She needs to go and shake those money makers.


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BlueJazz  (1000+ posts)      Thu Dec-31-09 08:54 PM
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2. Buy another hard drive....clone your drive to the new one. It's easy and we'll help you.


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lildreamer316  (1000+ posts)        Thu Dec-31-09 09:29 PM
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4. We bought another one...
 he has both of them at work right now, transferring one to another. Both are external. The dying one is an HP personal media drive that goes in the bays that our desktop has (of course also has a separate power supply so it can stand alone). It's a 500g. The new one is a stand-alone HP 1TB.

He messaged me and said it's doing better transferring than it was at the house. When it was here I could hear the drive arm making a noise.

Suggestions? Can we clone it successfully, and after we've transferred some stuff to the new one already? I don't know anything about cloning.
Thanks...


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City of Mills  (1000+ posts)        Thu Dec-31-09 09:33 PM
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6. Oh yeah
 You should be fine, unless some files are written to the bad parts of the disc, everything else should copy over. I've had an important drive die and had to send it out for recovery, it cost about $1000 which SUCKED. That drive wouldn't spin up at all, and wasn't recognized by the computer. But, if this drive is clicking and making noise, and the PC still recognizes it, most if not all files will be able to transfer to the new drive.
 


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lildreamer316  (1000+ posts)        Thu Dec-31-09 09:42 PM
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8. You just made my night.
 I certainly hope that holds true. It's hard not knowing.


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lildreamer316  (1000+ posts)        Thu Dec-31-09 09:31 PM
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5. We bought 
 another hard drive and he's transferring as fast as he can, but neither one is firewire - they're just USB 2.0; so the going is slow. The original drive is 500g and the new one is 1tb. The 500g is almost full; about 50g free. We've got a lot of stuff to save.
It's just frustrating. 
 

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lildreamer316  (1000+ posts)        Fri Jan-01-10 09:27 AM
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9. Update: It's gone.
 I did discover that I have backed up my family pics onto another drive; so that's good.But five years of a music library, as well as some things critcal to husband's work are gone.
I'll hang onto it and hope that we can make the thousand it's going to take to get it recovered. But I'm heartbroken about it.
Thanks anyway, friends. 

I'm surprised no DUmp loser offered the thousand for naked pics.
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Re: I need prayers for a hard drive.
« Reply #1 on: January 01, 2010, 12:49:02 PM »
Quote from: shadeaux on January 01, 2010, 12:11:55 PM
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I'm surprised no DUmp loser offered the thousand for naked pics.

And with SSDI, AFDC, etc. just in, they should be able to afford it.

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as well as some things critcal to husband's work are gone.

They weren't too critical, if he didn't back them up.
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Re: I need prayers for a hard drive.
« Reply #2 on: January 01, 2010, 01:12:16 PM »
I thought DU'ers didn't believe in prayer!  ::)
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Re: I need prayers for a hard drive.
« Reply #3 on: January 01, 2010, 01:21:15 PM »
burn a CD/DVD? Put pics on a memory stick?

Nothing??

a thousand?? puh-leeeze
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Re: I need prayers for a hard drive.
« Reply #4 on: January 01, 2010, 02:48:56 PM »
Hard Drive: In DUmmieland, that's a 1 mile commute to work....on Monday morning.
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Re: I need prayers for a hard drive.
« Reply #5 on: January 01, 2010, 03:21:40 PM »
Quote from: kenth on January 01, 2010, 12:49:02 PM
They weren't too critical, if he didn't back them up.

Got that right.  I have 2 external HD's that I back up my computer with.

If I can do it, it should be as easy as getting government assistance for a DUmmie....
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Re: I need prayers for a hard drive.
« Reply #6 on: January 01, 2010, 07:45:14 PM »
I have redundant copies of everything -EVERYTHING - on multiple drives in multiple homes, as well as Dual  Layer DVD burns.

Its fairly basic common sense to do so.
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Re: I need prayers for a hard drive.
« Reply #7 on: January 01, 2010, 07:48:40 PM »
I just have a lot of porn.  I can always get more. :p

I don't think burning sage or chicken blood is good for electronic devices, so the primitive probably shouldn't "pray" too close to the computer.
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Re: I need prayers for a hard drive.
« Reply #8 on: January 01, 2010, 08:20:26 PM »
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lildreamer316  (1000+ posts)        Thu Dec-31-09 07:24 PM
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I need prayers for a hard drive.

 The one we used to use as backup became husband's main drive when he had to start being a VJ at his new job. Now it's crashing; and all of our family photos and music is on there. It's still working - barely. We don't have the money to send it to a recovery place, I don't think.
Please pray for the hard drive. 


I think what she's really trying to say is that the hard drive may be filled with kiddie porn and they can't risk that getting out. 
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Re: I need prayers for a hard drive.
« Reply #9 on: January 01, 2010, 08:57:42 PM »
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bbernardini  (1000+ posts)      Fri Jan-01-10 09:37 AM
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10. Don't forget about the freezer trick.
 Some say it's a myth, but some computer guys I know who really know their stuff say it works. Just do a search for hard drive and freezer, and you should find some info. The basic idea is that putting the drive in the freezer for 24 hours will possibly allow you to access it again long enough to pull some of your more important files off it.
 
I can't believe it. This DUmmy has the method exactly wrong. The trick is to heat the hard drive for one hour in a deep fat fryer at 400F. Canola oil works best. The hot oil gets deeply into the drive, loosening stuck bits and bytes, and lubricating the drive surface so the bytes, once loosened, can more easily slide through the wires into your monitor and printer.
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Re: I need prayers for a hard drive.
« Reply #10 on: January 01, 2010, 09:04:24 PM »
Storage 3:12

Though I pass through the magnetic track of the great delete,
My reformat I shall not want, though it be My Computer
The 0's and the 1's shall live on through the digital divide,
Thall shall back up thy data, for thy warranty shall soon expire.
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Re: I need prayers for a hard drive.
« Reply #11 on: January 01, 2010, 09:38:19 PM »
and people laugh at me for still using film cameras.
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Re: I need prayers for a hard drive.
« Reply #12 on: January 02, 2010, 07:51:45 AM »
Quote from: GOBUCKS on January 01, 2010, 08:57:42 PM
 
I can't believe it. This DUmmy has the method exactly wrong. The trick is to heat the hard drive for one hour in a deep fat fryer at 400F. Canola oil works best. The hot oil gets deeply into the drive, loosening stuck bits and bytes, and lubricating the drive surface so the bytes, once loosened, can more easily slide through the wires into your monitor and printer.


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Re: I need prayers for a hard drive.
« Reply #13 on: January 02, 2010, 08:01:27 AM »
I can understand people having problems like this, has happened to be before, but to whine about it on a message board, that is the part that just perplexes me.
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