Crashed HD

[johnridley]

Damn. 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.

Comments

Re: spinrite

[johnridley.livejournal.com]

Spinrite utterly failed. It won't even boot to the CD with that drive in the system.
I'm hoping they send me an identical drive (Seagate 7200.9 250G) - if they do I'll swap the electronics out and give that a try - it failed so fast that I gotta believe it's an electronics failure. If so, I should be able to do a full read once that's sorted, but I'm not holding my breath.

Re: spinrite

[bwittig.livejournal.com]

Bummer. Yep, sounds like an electronics failure, all the recovery software in the world won't help.

Good luck on the electronics swap!