@*(@#*$(#!!(*( Drive Failure!!!

[Starbuck3733T]

Allright gents, I need to vent a bit this morning, so here is the story.

I wake up, roll out of bed, put on my pants (trousers for you in the UK) and walk down stairs.

*click click click* ... *click click click* ...

GOD DAMNIT.

I run over to my beast machine (teh goliath box) and hold my ear to the casing, hoping its not one of the critical drives. By the sound of it its one of the SCSI drives, not the big IDE one that actually holds all the important data (which I haven't gotten a chance to get onto my media center pc's 750GB raid 1 array because the fucking XP MCE 2005 won't join a !@#$%^&* domain).

Hard shutdown (hold power button down for 5 seconds) as the machine wasn't responding to the start menu. Take a guess as to which SCSI it was, top or bottom in the Silentstar enclosure (we know they didn't fail b/c of heat, that's for sure). Pull plug off top drive and hope that wasn't my ID0 (boot) drive.

Boot. No clicks. 29160 does its thing and detects.

*sigh of relief, it was the games drive*. All I lost was my games, and the only one that was in progress was the splinter cell demo which I wasn't going to finish anyway.

Now, lets hope that the drive that failed was the one i DIDN'T RMA yet. Thank god for maxtor/quantum and SCSI 3 year warranties.

The down side is now i have to take the time to drain the loop, take the silentstar out, disassemble it, take the drive out, put it back together, put it back in the loop, refill the loop.

THEN I HAVE TO DO IT AGAIN WITH THE DRIVE COMES BACK!

!()#(@#)@!!!. :eek:

[toby]

well at least its covered by warranty, i really need to get a raid array set up to protect my data! i would go insane if one of my drives failed

[Psykotik]

I have the pleasure of owning a British Telecom USB ISDN modem, which has possibly the worst drivers in the history of computing.

They cause my USB drivers to completely corrupt every now and then on my nForce machines, (of which my main rig is one) rendering the whole Windows install useless.

This happened the last Wednesday on my main rig, and I happened to have the flu, so was in no fit state to do anything about it until Sunday afternoon.

Man, you have to love hardware some times

[jedimas729]

Well I just lost my 40 gig hard drive with most of my games, 10 gigs of mp3s, my psx games, my website code, my microsoft office, all my music videos, all my snes, nes, and gba roms, and my steam install! Worse is that I dont have the money to buy another hard drive! Man this totally sucks! I am so pissed!!!!!!!!!

[Starbuck3733T]

You want to know a real shitkicker? my hearing must have been off. It was the IDE drive that failed, which is also under warranty but im sure its replacement will fail too - no cooling. I need to get a 5400RPM drive to replace it... its just my scratch drive for photoshop, my temporary downloads folder, video files for archival (pulled form replay tv or xp mce)... Those maxtor quickview series or the 5400rpm OEM 2MB drives look promising. I'll sell it when it comes back from RMA. Btw, maxtor advanced replacement RMA = tEH WIN!

The downside was that since i had no 'file server' for my house since I took down my linux box, that drive had all my music, videos, documents, and shit for about 6 years.

The golden savior: GET DATA BACK by runtime software. we have this at work and it worked MIRACLES. I got everything back, save for some shit in my MSDN download folder. That data is now on the 750GB raid array in my media center box. Wootle.

[jedimas729]

hmm wonder where I can get a copy of that software!?

[Starbuck3733T]

google for "getdataback" w\o the quotes. free trial, can do everything but copy the data to a new place (no recovery, but will show you what it can get bakc)

[jedimas729]

Hmm wonder if it will work for me. At the moment the drive is not being detected by my comp at all! Its like it decided that it didnt like and left but along the way it took all my data with it! I hope its recoverable! When I get home from class today I'll try it out and pray alot that it works!!!!!

[Starbuck3733T]

if the machine detects the drive's presence, it can usually get something off of it. if the IDE controller wont detect it, you're in trouble.

[Risky]

So all we need is to design a watercooled hotswap drive caddy. Should be trivial :lol:

[jedimas729]

if the machine detects the drive's presence, it can usually get something off of it. if the IDE controller wont detect it, you're in trouble.
Yeah its not detected so I guess I am pretty much screwed!