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24 Nov 2007, 8:54 pm

Yeah. Yesterday the Seagate Momentus hard drive inside my MacBook decided it would have a mechanical failure and destroy all my data. One trip to the Apple Store later and I have another of the same make of HD inside my comp and am looking into getting it replaced with a more reliable brand and bigger capacity (80 GB is a little too little for me) right away.

So I've officially lost everything off my comp because my father was too lazy to buy another hard drive to back my computer up. He kept saying that "oh, wait another month or so, nothing will happen". Well now something happened. >.<



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24 Nov 2007, 9:28 pm

ouch. does your computer just not detect it, or what?
I have a Seagate HD on my brother's computer, and for a while it kept Disconnecting. we thought it was dying.
Turned out it was overheating and shutting itself off to protect itself....


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24 Nov 2007, 9:33 pm

Eudevie wrote:
ouch. does your computer just not detect it, or what?
I have a Seagate HD on my brother's computer, and for a while it kept Disconnecting. we thought it was dying.
Turned out it was overheating and shutting itself off to protect itself....


I had a similar problem. Turned out to be the fan.


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24 Nov 2007, 9:43 pm

tmad40blue wrote:
Yeah. Yesterday the Seagate Momentus hard drive inside my MacBook decided it would have a mechanical failure and destroy all my data. One trip to the Apple Store later and I have another of the same make of HD inside my comp and am looking into getting it replaced with a more reliable brand and bigger capacity (80 GB is a little too little for me) right away.

So I've officially lost everything off my comp because my father was too lazy to buy another hard drive to back my computer up. He kept saying that "oh, wait another month or so, nothing will happen". Well now something happened. >.<


Jeez thats horrible! I haven't had an HD failure since my DOS days.
There are various ways to mechanically retrieve the information (as demonstrated at a previosu DEFcon). It might cost a bit, but if that information was important, it would be well worth your dollars.



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24 Nov 2007, 9:52 pm

tmad40blue wrote:
So I've officially lost everything off my comp


Thats how the majority of people learn that backing up data is a must.


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24 Nov 2007, 9:54 pm

Uh, I doubt that it's retrievable at all. This is a photo example of what an event like this looks like (yes, it's that common to have photos of it posted online):

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That's not my hard drive but it's the same thing that happened to mine.



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24 Nov 2007, 9:56 pm

I've seen one of the old hard drives (that are bigger then my waist) that had a physical crash. The scratches are odd to look at.


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