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05 March 2007 @ 06:05 pm
Hard drive dead :(  
This month hasn't started well; first food poisoning and now it looks as if my external hard drive is dead. :( Gone with it is all my "fun" stuff: screen caps, Photoshop *.psd files, textures & brushes & a thousand downloads for Photoshop, videos...100 GB of cool stuff. *sigh*

I'll be buying a new one -- and it's not as if I lost valuable work stuff -- but it's my "Having Fun" drive. Damn. March has not been kind to me thus far. Sure hope it's done messing with me.
 
 
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Mish: Misc -- Tinkerbelle -- Oh Shit![identity profile] hsapiens.livejournal.com on March 9th, 2007 04:10 am (UTC)
Well, frak.

The good news? I got it out and installed in a shiny new casing. I am completely NOT a mechanically-inclined person so I learned something new and that is a very cool thing.

The bad news? Apparently the drive itself failed and my gut feeling about what was wrong...was wrong.
[identity profile] mrkamikaze.livejournal.com on March 9th, 2007 03:00 pm (UTC)
What's it do when you put it in there? Is the system detecting anything when you connect it to the computer?
Mish: Misc -- Tinkerbelle -- Oh Shit![identity profile] hsapiens.livejournal.com on March 10th, 2007 12:02 am (UTC)
It powers up. I hear the disk spin up, which it had stopped doing in the old enclosure.

Windows knows I've plugged it in (again, this is better than when it was in the old case) but I get the following error message:

USB Device Not Recognized
One of the USB devices attached to this computer has malfunctioned, and Windows does not recognize it.
[identity profile] mrkamikaze.livejournal.com on March 10th, 2007 02:49 am (UTC)
Well, just arrange to get me the drive. I have a few more tricks up my sleeve. I don't need the USB enclosure, just the drive itself. Maybe Joe can give it to me when we play St. Pats weekend or you can give it to me if you come out.
Mish: Sam -- Nishta Junkie[identity profile] hsapiens.livejournal.com on March 11th, 2007 08:30 pm (UTC)
I was planning to attend the St. Paddy's Day show so I'll definitely bring it with me. Should I also bring a pack of blank DVDs or something to burn content to? (I'm thinking positive here.) While I couldn't care less about the backup info in the first partition, the graphics files and Photoshop resources would be lovely to have; I think that I have about 80-100GB of data on that partition. Let me know and I'll bring it all with me.

Thank you!
(Anonymous) on March 9th, 2007 03:03 pm (UTC)
Sorry for your HD failure. At least you unleashed your inner geek to try to fix it. As Homer once said, "You tried and failed...the lesson is, never try."

Incidentally, I ran into Ginger (not literally, fortunately) at the VW dealership today. Small world!

-yams69
Mish[identity profile] hsapiens.livejournal.com on March 10th, 2007 12:06 am (UTC)
I'm bummed that neither that nor the freezing worked. Frustrating, really, but it was a good thing for me to rip apart a drive. :) I never was interested in how things worked, only that they did. It's good to stretch one's comfort zone from time to time.

She mentioned it in a post here on LJ. I like to remind New Jersey-ites that Houston is larger than NJ. Y'all just live in a slightly smaller city than we do here in H-town. ;-)