Crashed HD
Dec. 20th, 2006 12:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
johnridleyDamn. Woke up this morning to a crashed hard drive on my main machine. I have a Ghost image of the boot drive from a couple of months ago, it'll do nicely, but the D: partition held some stuff I really hope I can retrieve, though I won't be heartbroken without it. Everyone needs a good fire once in a while.
The digital photos are on a separate drive, and are backed up monthly anyway, but there's a lot of downloaded to-be-archived crud that is now potentially lost.
I have a new 250G USB drive in hand to use as a backup. I'd bought it a couple of days ago, was using it at work as a temp drive, and today was the day I was going to bring it home and start backing up with it. Murphy, damn you, you win again!
Now it's off to the store to buy another 250. And eventually I'll get a warranty replacement for the 250 that just died.
The digital photos are on a separate drive, and are backed up monthly anyway, but there's a lot of downloaded to-be-archived crud that is now potentially lost.
I have a new 250G USB drive in hand to use as a backup. I'd bought it a couple of days ago, was using it at work as a temp drive, and today was the day I was going to bring it home and start backing up with it. Murphy, damn you, you win again!
Now it's off to the store to buy another 250. And eventually I'll get a warranty replacement for the 250 that just died.
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Re: spinrite
Date: 2006-12-21 12:41 am (UTC)I think in this case, either I'll be able to just read the data from the second partition, or I'm boned.
I suspect I'm boned. Spinrite isn't going to help when the BIOS doesn't recognize the hard drive, and it's just sitting there going clickity-click....clickity-click...clickity-click...