January 02, 2005
One Dead Hard Drive
On Thursday I lost a 160GB Maxtor back to its maker, a pretty significant loss for me, all my personal files back a few months and most importantly the lost of many recent professional files. The loss makes me feel even stupider since I currently have 200GB drive on the new computer, sitting empty waiting for back up files that I never got around to doing. The drive was in an external case and was used to hold files from the old computer, then moved to the new computer 2 months ago and never transfered over to the new hard drive. A major and painful loss, the drive would not spin up at all, pointing to a power failure but the drive now sits at A1BestComputer in Lake City waiting a data recovery verdict. Please pray for my lost data.
Comments
Anthony, That is a terrible story aboutlosing your data, especially for you. Obviously I cannot entirely relate, being a person with little or no data to lose but for you ouch. The compounded effect of having been able to prevent it is the real kicker. Much like smashing your finger with a hammer...no one to blame. As always you are in my prayers.
Posted by: Bekkedahl | January 12, 2005 08:53 AM
Hey - My Seagate 200gb was DOA. I have to send it back! It would not mount as a visible disc and kept giving me this error when I'd verify or repair the drive:
I could never rename disc or partition the drive. It always showed the generic name "disk2S3".
Anyway, the Macally external casing you recommended seems pretty cool.
Posted by: Jonathan | February 14, 2005 09:15 AM
Man that sucks, sorry about that. I hope the return to Amazon goes well, I had to return a motherboard to NewEgg once and was really surprised at how smooth it went, so let me know how it goes with Amazon, sure it will be good. also sorry to hear a Seagate having troubles, they are probably all very similar. Good luck, let me know how setup goes.
Posted by: Anthony | February 14, 2005 09:18 PM
I echo Andrew McCartney's sentiments--i am now on my second Maxtor 160GB drive ( i lost 4 yrs of work the last time round) which has died on me-losing a years worth of work/peronal stuff which is irreplaceable--ebay here i come to. does anyone have any ideas about data retrieval--i have been quted £800 for this 'service' !!!--(Mac os9)
Posted by: Mark Garner | July 18, 2005 08:22 AM