TheBeals

HDD Failure!!!

Oh how computers hate me so.  I am going through an HDD failure. Like a lot of failures, this one came without warning. Well technically, a few days prior I had sensed something wasn’t right, but figured it was because I had shut my computer off for a few weeks and had been running Maya/Zbrush/photoshop/Dreamweaver/After Effects constantly. IT finally gave me the blue screen of death when I tried to open AE while maya was open. It started going insanely slow and then WHAM stupid screen. Ran a dskchk and ended up having over 100,000 unreadable segments.

Luckily for me I had all past projects backed up on another drive along with all my music. I also had all present projects backed up on an external drive. Well… all except for the last 2 weeks prior of said failure which I estimated to be approximately 200 hours worth of work. In INSANE amount of work, but just south of the border in terms of what it would cost to have some one retrieve the data merely because base price is around 500$ and price goes up the more space you have and this beast happened to be a terrabyte. So with the much appreciated help from a couple good friends, I managed to get all my important files back while booting up through a linux cd.

Important being: 1.)Pirate chick 2.)Scrubs 3.)Tutorials 4.)Random collection of pictures 5.)TV shows. 6.)Movies

Talked to Seagate and they were very helpful and will be shipping me a replacement-recurtified(cheap punks) drive for 20 bucks and once I get it, I send them mine. So now I get to REINSTAL *every* program.

If this had to have happened, I wish it wold have happened a little later when Windows 7 came out.

If programs played a little nicer with Linux I would have never switched back to windows.

Needles to say, updates won’t happen for a bit, at least a week.