Fraking computers!!!!!!
Posted: Mon May 31, 2010 2:46 am
This is only a reading for those of you interested in fellow 3DO gamers' lives.
Ok I've been gone for a few days because the C: drive on my PC died, luckily after a total crash of my laptop I only put things on the desktop temporarily (nothing like loosing a book you are over 100pages into). So I had everything on that computer backed up... BUT ONCE AGAIN MY VIDEO GAME DRIVE DIED TOO.
Last time it was do to physical shock while writing, this time due to using a crappy Seagate drive! Last time I got almost all the data back as most of it was from other drives and I had been too lazy to sort it all out and delete everything. YAY procrastination! Mind you I had also done a very large project of ripping all my 3DO CDs and they would have only been on that dead drive if I hadn't been ripping them to a different one while I was sorting them out. But this time I have somewhere around 396GB of new data that I never had before, in fact it was all that writing for weeks that probably cooked the drive.
Sooo luckily it's not completely dead yet and I've spent the last 2 days copying everything to the new Western Digital drive. I don't really trust anyone other than Maxtor and they are gone. Every brand drive I have had has died including WD, whom everyone swears by, yet I still have a 6GB Maxtor that still works.
ONCE AGAIN I am saving all my data, I have almost all 750+ GB saved, all except the 3DO disc archive, since it's completely backed up between two other drives, and my Nintendo folder which I am copying now. I really wasn't that upset the first time because I knew that I could get almost everything back. This time it's taking less work because the drive still functions, messed up but it's readable 70% of the time, but I'm really ticked because this is the second time!
Oh and if you are wondering how I'm doing this all on a dead C: drive, I'm not. My laptop that I had to format and reinstall everything still works as long as it gets plenty of cooling from the fans under it. I really don't think this would even be working if the air conditioner wasn't blowing on it 24/7.
Ok I've been gone for a few days because the C: drive on my PC died, luckily after a total crash of my laptop I only put things on the desktop temporarily (nothing like loosing a book you are over 100pages into). So I had everything on that computer backed up... BUT ONCE AGAIN MY VIDEO GAME DRIVE DIED TOO.
Last time it was do to physical shock while writing, this time due to using a crappy Seagate drive! Last time I got almost all the data back as most of it was from other drives and I had been too lazy to sort it all out and delete everything. YAY procrastination! Mind you I had also done a very large project of ripping all my 3DO CDs and they would have only been on that dead drive if I hadn't been ripping them to a different one while I was sorting them out. But this time I have somewhere around 396GB of new data that I never had before, in fact it was all that writing for weeks that probably cooked the drive.
Sooo luckily it's not completely dead yet and I've spent the last 2 days copying everything to the new Western Digital drive. I don't really trust anyone other than Maxtor and they are gone. Every brand drive I have had has died including WD, whom everyone swears by, yet I still have a 6GB Maxtor that still works.
ONCE AGAIN I am saving all my data, I have almost all 750+ GB saved, all except the 3DO disc archive, since it's completely backed up between two other drives, and my Nintendo folder which I am copying now. I really wasn't that upset the first time because I knew that I could get almost everything back. This time it's taking less work because the drive still functions, messed up but it's readable 70% of the time, but I'm really ticked because this is the second time!
Oh and if you are wondering how I'm doing this all on a dead C: drive, I'm not. My laptop that I had to format and reinstall everything still works as long as it gets plenty of cooling from the fans under it. I really don't think this would even be working if the air conditioner wasn't blowing on it 24/7.