Ssthisto WalkingDeath DancingLight ([info]ssthisto) wrote,
@ 2006-06-12 22:35:00
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Current mood: Pretty screwed
Current music:None. My music was on the main drive too.

And the peasants rejoice
Immediately after spending money to buy baby rainbow boas...

Redflame, my computer, has suffered a major hard drive failure.

Congratulations, Ssthisto, you are now the proud owner of a small metallic brick. A small metallic brick which mockingly contains the entirety of your unfinished and in progress works, the full-size versions of your digital paintings, and indeed 90% of your life for the last seven years in totally inaccessible format.

It just goes to show that it never rains unless it intends to flood in biblical proportions. Don't even ask what else has gone tits-up.

By the way, I don't have access to any of my old e-mails any more either.

Yeah, those were on the brick too.


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[info]hafoc
2006-06-12 10:18 pm UTC (link)
Sorry. Well, I can send you what I have, when you have a machine to receive it.

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[info]ssthisto
2006-06-12 10:21 pm UTC (link)
Thanks, Havoc. I appreciate that. The disappointing thing is that all the works-in-progress files are on that drive. All the high-resolution stuff. Things that haven't ever been sent to anyone.

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[info]hafoc
2006-06-12 11:05 pm UTC (link)
OK, I've tried to tap into the local Geek Net to see whether Tephie knows anybody who knows anybody who etc. in data recovery. Her first response is the less you do to the busted drive, the better. And it would be helpful to know whether you're getting any error messages at all, or whether the thing is just refusing to respond, period.

The pros can recover almost anything, if it goes that far. In a few weeks I could contribute something toward the cost of that.

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[info]ssthisto
2006-06-13 06:27 am UTC (link)
Thank you, Havoc. I figured that would be the case - we're just going to box it up and hope that there's someone on the Geek Net worldwide who isn't going to go totally librarian-poo about the contents of the drive (nothing strictly illegal - just furry porn.)

And I appreciate that, as well - with everything else that's happening this month, we don't know quite how much cash we'll actually have that is disposable.

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[info]oboreruhito
2006-06-13 11:45 pm UTC (link)
go totally librarian-poo

The only other people I know with any interest in furry porn are librarians, eh

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[info]dragonicism
2006-06-12 10:40 pm UTC (link)
You can use various flat-rate data recovery services to restore your data, even if the hard drive's motor has burned out, or the partition data has been lost. In the event of partition damage, just send it in to someone, tell them the partition is damaged, and ask for full-drive data recovery.

In the event of physical damage to the drive, the physical disk, the big wafer with all of the data on it, can be moved to another drive, loaded in, and the data read off and put on another drive, which is then sent to you.

-Graul Vrynneth, black dragon

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[info]azusis
2006-06-13 12:30 am UTC (link)
Erg, I am very sorry to hear that. Hopefully you can recover most of what you lost. I know Ahkahna just had a similar problem and they were able to recover most of there stuff. Might be worth seeing what they did.

For what its worth I have the full size version of my commission saved, if you'd like it back. :)

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[info]selinshoras
2006-06-13 04:18 am UTC (link)
I know of people that could take an image of the drive and rebuild it for you at least long enough to get the documents you're after >.>

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[info]ssthisto
2006-06-13 06:25 am UTC (link)
Are they the sort of people who'd freak out about adult anthro art? That's one reason we haven't arranged to have anywhere here in the UK sort it out - because that sort of thing is of marginal legality.

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[info]steelwing
2006-06-13 04:49 am UTC (link)
What are the symptoms? Did it make terrible grinding noises (head crash) or does it not spin up, or are you not even detecting the drive?

Also, if it's something that can't be fixed easily, keep your drive and save up for the hard drive recovery people. They should be able to get everything off, unless it was a head crash..then they could probably still recover some, though.

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[info]ssthisto
2006-06-13 06:24 am UTC (link)
It doesn't try to spin up at all. When we tested it in another machine, the other machine detected a 'something' on the other side of the cable, but that was it.

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