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at least I think it is,.. time to start backing up all my useless shit *sigh* this sucks |
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im sorry, need some help? |
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you're not alone. i'm stuck with piece of 8 gig shit HD...now i have like 300 mb left- now THAT sucks. |
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sigh - I've only got 10gb outta 150 left - what to do... |
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*kicks ngolax in the teeth showoff ;) |
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share it. :) |
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bad luck seems to keep envenoming you!! =/ i hope you can recover it... |
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*kicks bad luck in the teeth |
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274mb left on my 20gb drive this is the price i've paid for discovering soulseek at about the same time i got broadband |
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400MB left on 80gigs, but I constantly back up and burn excess weight to CD-R. I must have a million other gigs of stuff offline, plus everything on here is backed up, right down to the most insignifigant .txt file. I learned my lesson. If you hear your harddrive click, begin panicking. |
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I'd like to learn how exactly to back up my entire hard drive... anyone wanna teach me? |
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Ophecks: If you hear your harddrive click, begin panicking. What do you mean, click? |
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like if it's repeating the same little loop of click (that noise that your HD says when it's thinking), and your computer seems slower/is not responding |
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I follow Ophecks' procedure... pictures, videos, all but my favourite MP3s, seldom used programs, etc. are all archived off to CDs. I swear, when I buy an 80Gb HD for my machine there still won't be much space on it once I restore all my archived stuff. Vacant: Buy a tape drive and a copy of Veritas backup exec :P If you're on a network it might be worth backing up to another machine. Failing that, buy a CD burner and regularly backup your important directories. My floops installation is backed up about once a month... |
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Eek. Mine too. Is there a quick way to back everything up? |
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My situation, C: Drive = 0 bytes free D: Drive = 100 MB 20 gig each. |
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you can do it with nero for example i forgot how it being done, but if you have nero, its not difficult, just click data - hd backup... give yer hd a nice funeral after, put some nice music on it, play rest in peace, two gunshot salutes, and blow it up/burn it down... |
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i have 130GB all together, i'd like to backup my 50GB mp3's, can anyone recommend backup software? |
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i remember these situations before i had a 60 gb hd, especially after weekends... |
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I'm getting a new computer as a graduation present. 2.3x ghz, dvd-rom, cd burner, 80 gigs of disk space, 17" flat screen, windows xp, 6 USB ports, printer, etc :D |
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c:40gb d:20gb free: c:2gb (and that really is stripped of all but the essentials...) d: 2.5gb free. It's getting to be a real pain as it seriously limits the amount of my own wavs I can have and also video editing is a bit of a pain... Perhaps I ought to get rid of some of my 7GB+ of samples in .wav format :/ |
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Sort samples out and burn to CDs. You could have different disc for differnt types of sounds. |
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I just bought a 80GB.... ha! :P |
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Yes a lot are from existing sample CDs, but I should burn of the 600mb or so of my own samples I've made (I tend to export short reason/floops loops I make to wav for use in Ableton Live) |
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I really need to backup some essential stuff too. I got about 30 gigs free out of 120 but since my last HD crashed on me im getting paranoid over HD's. I should sort my samples out like SpookyLuke is suggesting but that's gonne be a hard job. I'm having fun giving samples original names, but later on you dont have a clue what they sound like. :) |
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I only buy seagate drives now. I've come to trust them in terms of reliability. It's just not worth the saving of £30 getting a cheaper brand drive if you're worried about HD failures all the time... The new IBM ones are looking pretty tempting though. |
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"my HD is dying" "my HD crashed" ... this never happened to me, does is just happen all of a sudden, or only when you do strange things or something? you mean the HD is really damaged and can't be used anymore? fuck me i'd die if that happened to me.. |
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mine always does strange things |
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It isn't exactly commonplace, but they do sometimes just die... it happened to an old laptop of mine. Perhaps using it on the bumpy bus journey to school as I frantically finished programming homework wasn't the best of ideas :| Seems to happen more to laptops than desktop PCs, but they're not immune either. |
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Ever heard of Murphy's law (not the band)? :) It was strange in my case. I never noticed anything out of the unusual and all of a sudden while surfing, crash (with a sound that could go on an ae album :) ). Tried al kinds of stuff, called in the specialist but I had to bury the HD. Snif. |
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Oh and whilst there are companies that specialise in HD data recovery their services don't come cheap... you're looking at about £500 just for an estimate to see if they can say roughly how much they could recover and £1000s if they actually try to recover data with no guarantees that they will... it's far cheaper to run mirrored discs with software based Raid than resort to something like that. |
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It's on moments like those you realize how a computer has taken his place in our lives. After the crash, it was just like there has been a small fire that has destroyed a part of memories and the realisation you lost a lot of emotional valuably stuff like, digital pics, emails,... |
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i like the way it feels to use a just-formatted computer. its brand new. a fresh start. i do hate reinstalling the drivers though. |
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He he, I know what you mean. I love using older hardware on XP- all the drivers are already built in... I tend to (when I make a new PC) have one HD full of old stuff and one nice clean new one. |
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I am :) constantly |
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mine died a couple times in the last few months... too bad I didn't have the foresight to back my shit up... lost a bunch of stuff, but it wasn't too bad I guess... could've been worse... |
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Something I've done before was copy one hd to another and forgot to copy a particular folder... needless to say I formatted the old drive before checking the new one. Bye bye about 2 albums worth of my tracks including probably my best track ever :/ That was back in the days bfore I had a CD burner so I was without backup. Even the MP3s were lost ;.( |
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i'm pretty sure that the newer the HD is, the bigger change it has to fail... |
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Why's that Junktion? I'm not so familiar with the real tech stuff on computers. |
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aww. this situation really sucks... remember me when i crashed my hdd, ther was all my music in it. hopefully i retrieved some of my tracks on friend hardisks. |
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my 80GB Western Digital, has a special edition 8MB Cache (data-buffer). Not all systems handle that all too well, and the speed that the data is written with, may shorten the life of the drive. One of my friend just had to get unit exchanges on two IBM HD's because of bad blocks and noises/freezes. Faster HD's die quicker |
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sure. true. exact. scientificaly proved. |
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Yes, I've always consoled myself knowing I can at least get MP3s of my stuff online/off friends nowadays. |
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I've worked with lots (1000s) of drives over the last few years. Good: Seagate, Maxtor Bad: Western Digital Risky: IBM (some good models, some terrible) Unless your time is worthless, it makes sense to mirror all your critical files. |
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