Fucking laptop hard drive IS FUCKED


CUNT


All my files GONE

 

Was it the bath you gave it?

 

Probably

 

so much porn wasted

 

not the Porn Im worried about, Its the pictures from Holidays and my Music...

 

That really is gutting... in fact, you've made me want to back up my pics of my son!

 

Take the hard disk out, and stick it in the fridge. Meantime, order a new one and when it arrives, get busy getting Windows on your new hard disk.

Spend a tenner on ebay for a laptop USB hard disk box. When it arrives, have your 'new' computer running. Quickly get the cold disk into the USB box. Chances are if you've caught it early enough you may be able to recover most, if not all of your stuff.

Hard disks have bearing in them, which can fail - 'freezing' the drive normally shrinks it just enough to get it to run normally for a few minutes until it heats up again. It's a growing problem in modern laptops as they run so much hotter than they did years and years ago.

 

Sorry to hear that rad I doubt it's anything to do with the water splash, hard drives are usually pretty well hidden in laptops. Could just have gone to heaven as they do sometimes.

If you are really desperate to recover your files, there are people out there who do this for a living, do a quick search on the web Will cost between £100 and £300.

Bit of advice for everyone... Get a 300Gb external hard drive, or bigger. They're only pennies these days.

And backup regularly Digital photography is great... until you loose all your files

 

you've only had that like 3 months tops

gutted dude not good as said external is what i just bought on fleabay for £9 recon to save a few bits as my PC is about to go proper tits up

 

I had a guy with fooked laptop HDD yesterday.

Took the HDD out, used the USB caddy and plugged it up.

Looked at it, it says "The disk is not formatted. Would you like to format it?"

I selected No.

I used an recovery program and it found the dictorary tree and the files fine. So made a full recovery!

So try this route.

 

Got someone looking at it, for a ton! Money I need though

I was on the look for an externl HD too! If only I fucking bought one

Cheers though

 

Remember,

digital data is only safe if stored in two places as a minimum

 

Loads of people recommended http://www.retrodata.co.uk - good price, too.

 

 

Its Rads laptop not Robs

 

LOL! Fucking gutted if you don't get it back mate.

 

 

Harsh! PMSL!

It gets better! LOL!

 

 

what a cunt

 

So you've looked on his laptop too then Lee

 

Yeah.....I dialed in remotely over t'internet.....copied all his stuff off, corrupted his hard drive & am now holding his data to ransom!!!!

Radders.....you're one sick puppy.....I never knew half of this stuff went on........I see you've got a liking for 'riding' horses!!

 

Thats actually quite scary you know this...

 

I reckon its the Midget porn hes gonna miss the most

 

misery. i lost mine recently as well. had most stuff backed up on pc though, luckily.

now i have a laptop, a pc, and a NAS where all photo's are backed up to, as well as a reasonably recent dvd

 

So true

4mm DAT and DVD for me

 

Back-up your pictures onto discs Rad...

Simple and easy!

Saving over 26,000 pictures does mean a few discs though

 

Smit, you should stop taking pictures of yourself in the mirror

 

Greg - My 8 megapixel camera is to blame Promise....

 

Thats wrong on all levels.

 

upload all your pics to different photobucket accounts

i also lost all my classical music so now resort to old skool garage from the most legalist sources on the internet

sorry to hear about the loss of your porn its hard to let it go without saying goodbye

 

http://www.ontrack.com/easyrecoveryprofessional/

get some one to download it for you if you cant yourself... works a treat as long as the hard drive its self is still alive ... if not try the fridge out it does work...

 

My Caddy did that a while back

Tried freezing it, did not work

 

Total wounder mate.

I'll send some music across on MSN over the weekend if you want to start buliding your collection back up.

 

I was going to buy a tape drive to back mine up, then i realised i'd need an ultrium LTO3 400/800 and then realised i didnt have £1200 lying around

Get Ontrack recovery off bittorrent, its what i use at work works a treat when your allocation table has gone out the window

IBM/Hitachi disk by any chance?

 

Bugger Radders

I'd have had a looked for nowt, but not like ur round the corner

 

www.schoolboyerror.com
rule number 1
always back up to an external hdd

 

Went off IBM drives ages ago...just around the time they were offloaded to Hitachi...

 

They were shit long before that

"the click of death"

 

I know it well...many a laptop has died in my arms thanks to TravelStars...