Macbook Hard Drive Failed!!!! - Page 2

PrinzII · 12-30-07, 03:29

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Originally Posted by BlackElantraGT

chances are your data can still be recovered. Usually the whole hard drive itself doesn't fail all at once. Certain sectors will go bad which will then corrupt the OS and prevent you from booting up. But as Prinz suggested, if you can connect the hard drive to another system you can usually retrieve most of the important files that you need. Some of these places that do hard drive recoveries can even retrieve data from badly damaged hard drives (fires, water damage, etc.)

I have to do that with a 300 GB drive that belongs to my wife.

BlackElantraGT · 12-30-07, 03:50

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Originally Posted by PrinzII

I have to do that with a 300 GB drive that belongs to my wife.

I know the pains of having a hard drive fail. It's the reason why I'll never do a RAID 0 setup again, no matter what the performance increase may be. Somehow I always risk the chance by not backing up, despite knowing that eventually a hard drive will fail or some Windows registries will go bad. I'm an idiot, but part of the reason why I don't seem to learn my lesson is because I tend to use my hard drives to its full capacity early on and it's not cost-effective for me (at that time) to get a big enough hard drive to back up everything I need. With today's hard drive space and online storage options though, I shouldn't have any excuses. I'm just too lazy and procrastinate too much.

Plus, now I have different priorities. Before (in my late teens, early 20's) I was concerned with my vast music collection but now all that's really important to me are family photographs. I can always get back music, but family photos and videos are a different story.

DFTowel · 12-30-07, 04:01

I've always backed up every night. I used DejaVu which was totally automatic. Now I've upgraded to Leopard and WOW, they have "Time Machine" which backs up every hour and you can go back for weeks or months to see what your drive had on it at that time. For the last few days I've been working on my website and today I seem to have lost a web page, I must have accidentally deleted it a couple of days ago. I went to Time Machine, went back a couple of days and there the file was! One click and it was right back where it belonged. Truly a wondrous piece of software.

PrinzII · 12-30-07, 05:00

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Originally Posted by BlackElantraGT

I know the pains of having a hard drive fail. It's the reason why I'll never do a RAID 0 setup again, no matter what the performance increase may be. Somehow I always risk the chance by not backing up, despite knowing that eventually a hard drive will fail or some Windows registries will go bad. I'm an idiot, but part of the reason why I don't seem to learn my lesson is because I tend to use my hard drives to its full capacity early on and it's not cost-effective for me (at that time) to get a big enough hard drive to back up everything I need. With today's hard drive space and online storage options though, I shouldn't have any excuses. I'm just too lazy and procrastinate too much.

Plus, now I have different priorities. Before (in my late teens, early 20's) I was concerned with my vast music collection but now all that's really important to me are family photographs. I can always get back music, but family photos and videos are a different story.

I am contemplating backup options as well. I may consider something like a NAS and NovaStor.

rjstaaf · 12-30-07, 05:36

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Originally Posted by PrinzII

I am contemplating backup options as well. I may consider something like a NAS and NovaStor.

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