sorry to head that, but we all have been there. backup is really important if in your data there is something you actually care of. i recently lost 1y of data from my professional laptop, it was stolen and my backup flawed. now I have double backup, local and cloudy.
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I suppose it's a good time to invest in a SSD now as a replacement.
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Sorry for your loss...
Dumb question, but was it internal or external?
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Managed to sizzle a 1TB WD not long ago while assembling my secondary PC.
- case with pre-installed fans + fan control had 2 Molex connectors so i plugged in both :---D
- would crash when i'd set the fan speed to high ... figured that out quickly
- unplugged the bigger Molex, surprise to me - the fan control + fans still had power lol
- wtf one of the 3 HDD's was gone - SSD OK, Seagate 1TB OK, WD Green 3TB OK, WD Black 1TB RIP
- investigated cause of demise: derp user (i) + likely a head-crash by sudden by power loss or other head related failure
Lucky me - that drive contained mainly games for emulators + was backed up recently ... AND had still 1.5 of 5y warranty.
Did sent it to WD support and got a new one, with no questions asked and free of charge other than postage cost to send it. o/
Files that matter i'd keep on at least 2 Drives, 2 USB's and maybe SD-Cards or DVD's.
Keeping track of HDD Health with (HD Tune, Crystal Disk, HD Sentinel) is for most parts
useless as its usually obvious when the drives getting weird (noise, performance) + sudden RIP.
edit.: highly recommended some Backup-Tool - saves a shit ton of time and space to get the backups done (counting myself on
Acronis True Image since years - current Ver. even enables you to migrate your OS Drive+Win-License to a completely different PC)
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+1 on acronis, saved me from a good couple of headaches with moving and ghosting system partitions, even managed to recover complete partitions from an unrecognizable hdd with it once
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its probally one of the worst things that can happen to a person.
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That hurts :(
I am too lazy to do full backups. But I allways have two drives so I am able to do a copy of my important personal data.
Since 98% of the data is not important - like games or porn - I can do this occasionally copy very quick.
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Happend to me. Seagate drive too. RAID mirroring saved my ass :)
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Are you absolutely 100% sure? Not being recognized isn't always a hardware thing, it can be drivers.
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yeah i lost my 2 f*cking seagate HDDs(bought in 2013!!!) too
I will never buy any hdd more, only ssd
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It's not about HDDs, it's about the brand.
Seagate is well known for their HDDs failing
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since they tookover or bought maxtor*
they weren't always that bad.. but no arguments on them being that bad now.
they went from my top recommended to something i wont even touch anymore.
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lol, do you know all lot of Big Corporations use HDDs, I'm pretty sure the FBI and NASA still use HDDs, I even think this site is being run on an HDD xD
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u r wrong they use tape storage, its more  longevous
hdd for servers because of more capacity
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that sux =(
that's the reason i use cloud('s). got sick of losing data from hdd failure.. its bound to happen sooner or later to just about everyone.
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If it's not detecting but still you hear it spinning up without weird noises and clicking and ticking when you turn on your pc, than it might be that it's only something electrically, so you can find exact the same hdd and replace circuit board, and your all data will be back.
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Is disk are spinning? Is motor working? Do you hear head moving over plates?
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I've recovered some hdd for my friends. If disk is working, I can help to recover it.
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I know that feeling too well. And thanks for reminding me to do another backup.
Also check your bios settings, my old mainboard used to play tricks on me and changed its settings occasionally. You also might want to try some recovery tool.
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my last one suddenly couldn't be "initialized" by windows. it always wants to format it. still trying to find out if i can access anything.
contents: gaming videos, games, downloads, personal files (luckily backuped in the cloud), and the worst: game saves. i'll never finish Witcher 3
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I lost all my personal work and games.
Always back up your stuff.
You can just download media again. The vast majority of people don't have enough personal files to outstrip free cloud storage options.
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Oh crap...that totally suck...I hope you didn't lose too much of your artwork?
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Everything from this year. :-\
A lot of old things were on another PC and really old stuff (5~10 years) is stored on Amazon Glacier.
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Ok, i helped him, we recovered most important data. I hope he will create a new giveaway to celebrate recovery process
:D
There also a video what can solve a problem too:
Here I show you how to stop a corrupted HD from clicking. Other tools can be used but it recommened to follow exactly as I do for the fastest result.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMhdEp3SM_w
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Rest in peace, beloved hard disk. I never had a sudden disk death, but I know how much it sucks when the disk start failing. You can lose your cpu, your gpu, your ram... and you can replace it or maybe take advantage and get better hardware, but not with the disk, because files. Losing personal data and things with a lot of work really sucks, I formatted my disks without backups in the past or forgot to backup X file.
I'm glad I now use MegaSync to make backups for my personal files. Try to use some cloud for backups. Dropbox is another option.
If you lost something not really important that you invest hours on it,at least you didn't lose the experience to make it better.
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So, my HDD just died. It is not even detected.
Backup? Haha, yeah... I lost all my personal work and games.
Enjoy this moment with me and have a giveaway.Good news!
After some reboots, I managed to make the hard drive to be recognized by the system.
I was trying the ddrescue tool and Hakimodo came to my aid.
He realized that there were no errors in the partition I was trying to clone, then he helped me with smarter ways to salvage the data. :D
Other partition is really damaged. If I try to clone it or just copy data, after a while, it freezes the system and BIOS won't detect it.
The important thing is that I was able to recover my work, my porn and some of my games.
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