Damn, I feel for you. :X
It's bad enough when they start to fail and you have time to back up.
When they just outright die, it's like ;_;
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Ugh, I feel for you, every day I thank the Machine God/Omnissiah for my still-working laptop.
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I feel your pain. There are usually warning signs leading up to it, such as the drive working intermittently, or bad sectors that cause software to misbehave.
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That sucks, I accidentally dropped one of my external hard drives while cleaning my desk and all my family pictures and memories I've collected along the way is on it. I think I might be able to recover it but the places that do it are so expensive. :(
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My seagate HDD died few years back but it gave me a warning that it was going to completely fail via SMART hdd monitor.
If you have important files, you can send your dead HDD to a data recovery service.
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Bump and meow. I'm old enough to have gotten to the point of using RAID 1. At least, I did until I got an SSD.
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I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. All sort of pornography. So much pirated content. All those moments will be lost in time, like harddrive dust...in...wind. Time to die.
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I'm sorry for your loss.
At the very least, learn from this. Specifically, I would recommend that you set up software that automatically backs up your data to a backup drive (which is what I do).
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Weird thing, huh? My HDD died also yesterday, and I gave my respects for her 5 years of almost 24/7 service to me. :(
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well... recuva on that. if it doesn't work, fuck that shit hard as I did with mine once.
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I'll try ddrescue on linux. I don't trust windows tools for such important task. :-P
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Can you try taking it to the recovery service? Like a local PC repair shop?
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If everything else fails, I'll send to a recovery service. I have to prepare my wallet.
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If it's only the board failing, you can replace it from other hard drive. For temporary measure, only for backing up purpose.
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Here have some Fluffy Puppy to release your stress
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CUTENESS LEVELS REACHING DANGEROUS HEIGHTS!!!! (klaxon noises in background)
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How old was it ? I also have a seagate external , and it's been working fine for 6 to 8 years already , and your connector could be busted , so there is still a slight chance you can repair it (if the connector is the problem)
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what were you doing last time before this happened?
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No, seriously... I was working, nothing special.
The system froze, I rebooted and the drive wasn't detected anymore.
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This is the reason that my family insist on only getting SSDs. With no moving parts, this will never happen.
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I hope they have anything they want to keep backed up because it will happen, even with an SSD.
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SSDs can fail hard too. But there's less chance of recovery if you don't have a backup.
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SSD fails too, and in all cases SSD don't give any warning before it fails, it just fails, and if ssd fails there is much less chance to recover data than on HDD. HDD very often gives a warning when it starts failing if its up to moving parts, and you can recover most of data when it fails.
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SSD drives fail as well you know - and they don't give that tell-tale clicking noise that warns you :)
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If it's not detected and still spins you might be able to just replace the circuit board.
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I had a HDD die once. It had a few thousand pictures and videos on it that I did't have backed up. I don't take pictures anymore.
I know someone who was backing up there stuff not too long ago and the external HDD fell on the floor while it was running, everything gone.
If you really have anything you want to keep, you should have two backups of it just incase one fails.
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So, my HDD just died. It is not even detected.
Backup? Haha, yeah... I lost all my personal work and games.
Enjoy this moment with me and have a giveaway.Good news!
After some reboots, I managed to make the hard drive to be recognized by the system.
I was trying the ddrescue tool and Hakimodo came to my aid.
He realized that there were no errors in the partition I was trying to clone, then he helped me with smarter ways to salvage the data. :D
Other partition is really damaged. If I try to clone it or just copy data, after a while, it freezes the system and BIOS won't detect it.
The important thing is that I was able to recover my work, my porn and some of my games.
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