[ecurbh]

Well, one of my hard drives has apparently gone tits-up. 100 GB of music, bye bye.

I still want to test it in Hair’s computer to be sure, but I’ve tested it on both IDE controllers on my machine. The drive is spinning, but completely fails to be recognized by both BIOS and Windows.

~sigh~

But I can replace it with a 500GB USB drive for under $100. My, times have changed.

[Ramius]

Bummer, man...

That rug really tied the whole room together.

[SuziQ]

I’m gonna have SirKit read your post. He had a hard drive go out on him earlier this summer; the one with all our IRS data on it from this past year. EEK! He found a guy in town who was able to retrieve the data, though it took him 12 hours to do so. I don’t remember exactly what the problem was, so I’ll have SirKit tell you what transpired.

[Rose in RoseBear]

Thanks to my thoughtful Bear, I have the 500gig USB drive.

Thanks to eBay, I have Ghost.

Now, thanks to you, I have the motivation to Ghost my many drives.

Geez, my machine's My Computer is a conglomeration!

• A: (3.5" floppy)
• C: (internal hard drive)
• D: (internal hard drive)
• E: (CD/DVDRW)
• F: (DVD-ROM)
• G: (internal hard drive)
• H: (internal hard drive)
• I: (removable drive)
• J: (removable drive)
• K: (removable drive)
• L: (removable drive)
• M: (external USB hard drive)
• N: (flash drive)
• P: (flash drive)
• R: (external USB hard drive)

I need to build a new system just to get my drives all under control!

[SuziQ]

Ping to ecurbh’s Post 5162 re: dead hard drive.