Community weekly poll: When did you last experience a complete hard disk failure?
- 12/7/05 4:00 PM
hard disc failure.
by raptor8 - 12/9/05 10:07 AM In reply to: When did you last experience a complete hard disk failure? by Marc Bennett
i've had two commit hara-kiri, taking much data with them. Both MAXTOR external hard drives, first one croaked under warranty, second one just barely out of warranty. I will never buy another MAXTOR product - I learned my lesson! very disappointed! Now it's just internal drives for me.
Hard Drive Failure
by wheelzup - 12/9/05 10:42 AM In reply to: When did you last experience a complete hard disk failure? by Marc Bennett
I had three go at once in all in one PC in early September. It was partly my fault since it was during a severe thunderstorm that they were fried along with my cable modem. Everything else was spared thank the computer gods for that. Nothing was salvagable, it's a good thing I had made a backup of all my files the day before and had them stored away on a CD.
Don't use Format /quick
by HintonEast - 12/9/05 10:52 AM In reply to: When did you last experience a complete hard disk failure? by Marc Bennett
I made the mistake once; of using the /quick switch while formatting my HD. It became unusable. I tried on and off for a year using different tools to recover it, but no go.
Never again!
hard disk failure
by hgs - 12/9/05 10:53 AM In reply to: When did you last experience a complete hard disk failure? by Marc Bennett
I really never experienced a hard disk failure. I'm a Mac-User for the last eight years...
Lightning Strike
by unkqty - 12/9/05 11:15 AM In reply to: When did you last experience a complete hard disk failure? by Marc Bennett
1) Our area had poor power grid and we got a lightning strike. Power dropped out 2x and spiked 2x - system tried reboot between. Hard drive (Maxtor 8GB 7200) required wipe & reload, but monitor (Cyrix(?))was a loss. Purchased a UPS/circuit protector (APC) and works well.
2) Purchased and installed new, but defective board. Logic controller burned out within first week or so, which gave me a "no can find disk" error. By time diagnosed, warranty was up. Info was still on the drive, just couldn't read. Disk working fine now - same Maxtor.
Yes, I recommend Maxtor.
My friend happened
by Jive01 - 12/9/05 11:28 AM In reply to: When did you last experience a complete hard disk failure? by Marc Bennett
I had a jackass friend who decided it would be a good idea to format my hard drive. So, I guess, it was actually a critical-friend-error. not the hard drive.
Either way, I lost everything.
Did you go to his/her funeral?
by rccoffee - 12/9/05 3:59 PM In reply to: My friend happened by Jive01I hate to do anything kinky like reformat a hard drive. I would kill any "friend" who did this to me, I wouldn't attend the funeral and I wouldn't send flowers. I'd call India for help.
HDD failure...
by Thomas L Clements - 12/9/05 12:02 PM In reply to: When did you last experience a complete hard disk failure? by Marc Bennett
I have a thought regarding that and maybe some reasons leading toward higher frequency of it happening among some people than others. I have a tendency to do a lot of clean-up work manually and comprehensively on my PC; not being rich enough to afford the software beyond the trial versions that only tell you how many problems or concerns you have and that you should buy their software to fix them. I am smart enough to do thing but also enough to be dangerous. I've personally messed up the registry, I'll admit, but those who don't quite go as far as I do can use programs to Defragment, check for Viruses etc., and other HDD comprehensive use programs more that other people. Those drives have got to be the ones that are more likely to crash and crash quicker than the others. I feel that the question reguarding comprehensive HDD program use should be also asked to give a better perspective of the answer. Tom.
RAID 0 FAILIURE
by konwiddak - 12/9/05 12:16 PM In reply to: When did you last experience a complete hard disk failure? by Marc Bennett
I had a hard disk failiure and a motherboard failiure during a power surge. Since then I have purchased a ups (get frequent power cuts), a surge protector and a high end power supply to stop this from ever happening again. (I had no problem with forking out as they are all long term investments which should happily see me through my next computer)
When my disks failed it was one of the disks in a RAID 0 volume. The disk still spinned, the writing head could still move but the disk was as good as dead (could not format or write any data to it). Even if the disk hadnt failed recovery would have been difficult because it was in a RAID 0 array and i have not seen a utility that can cope with this. Luckily for me I still had the old 80gb ATA drive in my computer which i had before i went to raid. All my irreplaceable data was on it so i did not loose too much. I also had a copy of xp on it so i got by untill i got the replacement disk. It was fortunate that i had only had my raid 0 for a few weeks so it was relatively easy to recover everything.
Since then i have my RAID 0 array automatically back up and synchronise documents on the 80gb drive. I also back up my laptop on it because I realised if I lost all the work on it i would probably fail my design technology A level.
So in conclusion if you have raid have an old backup drive. A 20 gb drive is not too expensive and should be enough to back up those irreplaceable files.
Power surge
by alastairscampbell - 12/9/05 12:49 PM In reply to: When did you last experience a complete hard disk failure? by Marc Bennett
A power surge after ligtening destroyed not only my hard drive but modem, CD etc. Solution - new computer and a surge protector, and regular backups!! A hard lesson to learn.
HD failure 7 yrs. ago
by ironyears - 12/9/05 2:17 PM In reply to: When did you last experience a complete hard disk failure? by Marc Bennett
My first and only COMPLETE HD failure was approximately 7 yrs. ago, on a very old, first gen Pentium processor, 450MB HD. It just started to die in stages, through phyisical deterioration, I later learned. It finally just gave up completely when I was online, blank screen and totally unresponsive to any and all attempts of command and repair.
Now, I use Norton Systemworks and other Norton progs to keep my HD in top notch condition, doing a Diskscan and repairs at least once a week, preferably 2 to 3 times a week. Have not had a single HD failure since I started the above.
Hard disk failure
by bobbykid - 12/9/05 3:50 PM In reply to: When did you last experience a complete hard disk failure? by Marc Bennett
When I started up my computer I heard a clicking sound comming from the hard drive. Now, Nothing will even boot up to do anything with.
Iomega External Hard Drive
by rccoffee - 12/9/05 3:53 PM In reply to: When did you last experience a complete hard disk failure? by Marc Bennett
I bought an 80 GB Iomega external hard drive for my HP Win 98 to store all my photos and to back up some files. The box said that it was for USB 2.0 AND 1.1. I installed the Iomega software and the free included software, Norton Ghost.
I didn't bother to read the system requirments for Norton Ghost and the internal hard drive crashed. I had to use the HP Recovery Disks and spend 3 solid days bringing the HD back to the way it was before Ghost. Now, I read all the system requirments BEFORE I install anything. It helps that I replaced that computer with one running Win XP/Home. I also replaced the Win 95 with a Mac running OS X-Panther.
System Crash
by mccrary50 - 12/9/05 4:00 PM In reply to: When did you last experience a complete hard disk failure? by Marc Bennett
Last year seemingly minor glitches in IE and MS Outlook spread into MS Word, then the Symantec Virus scanner became frequently disabled after failed updates.Finally it was impossible to boot, only disconnecting power worked. Forget about tech support, as I was passed on to higher levels just to get repeated reformat instructions, losing all stored data. Twice I needed to rebuild my PC from the ground up, spending hours reinstalling.
My Hard Drive Failure
by the_tinkerer - 12/9/05 4:49 PM In reply to: When did you last experience a complete hard disk failure? by Marc Bennett
My 80 GB Maxtor HD failed without warning exactly 10 days after the one year waranty expired.
I had backed up about two weeks erlier but i had just finished up-dating my programs and up-dating my passwords. What a pain I had to go to all the forums etc. and get new passwords because i hadn't backed up the new ones yet. I was surprised I didn't get a warning.
I Have Some Advice Backup Backup Backup Every Day!!
I'm Still Using the MrMirror program I've had since Win95
It works on My XP fine. I'm backing up every night....
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