Entirely OOC.
10:00
Ka-chunk, ka-chunk. Prrrtt..
Nasty noise when I boot up my computer and stuff runs slow for some reason.
Luckily it wasnt the system disk, however it was my movie & document disk where I keep my all my fraps material. It was one of those one touch USB/Firewire disks.
I had to break the warranty and open the seal to start doing emergency rescue of the data.After carefully disassembling the case I had the ATA disk inside the USB/Firewire case hooked up to my system through the normal ATA-interface.
11:00
LBAread error, restoring disk 10%...
Lots of data corrupted, but at least some of the files managed to survive.
13:00
Finished restoring, now time to go through all the checkfiles and weirdnumbered directories with files.
16:00
Sorted through, found some of my fraps material.
*sighs and curses Maxtor*
My student allowance this month wont allow me to get a new disk.
It's barely enough to pay for the bandwidth (roughly 250gb so far this month) and food.
Oh well, if there're any Maxtor employees playing EVE. I will hunt you down everyone of you and have your ships shot down as payback ;)
2 Comments
Cutie Anja·
Maxtor drives in general don't last much beyond the one year warranty period.
At least, the only drives that have crashed and died on me have been Maxtors.
You're lucky you managed to retrieve any data at all. But it still sucks.
Spathi·
Yeh I've only ever had maxtor drives die on me. My western digital onces are very reliable. They even took well to moving 5,400miles over 3 years in a car.