Just got my extra system up and running after my main system hard drive melted down.
Sometimes I hate tech.....but also love it
welcome back :t
Hi,
Nice to hear you got back up. Good to have more than one
machine every so often.
Cheers,
Steve N.
I hope you're doing fine now. Welcome back.
Gunther
Hi Anunitu,
Glad to hear you are back again.
But please buy a 1t internal hard drive and a thermaltake docker to put it in.
Use something like Clonezilla-live or other to keep your computer backed up at
all times. This has saved my butt so many times I have lost count.
Then your only out the $70 or so dollars for the hard drive.
Time to completely restore your puter is 1/2 hour.
Quote from: shankle on June 13, 2014, 12:04:02 AM
Use something like Clonezilla-live or other to keep your computer backed up at
all times. This has saved my butt so many times I have lost count.
Then your only out the $70 or so dollars for the hard drive.
Time to completely restore your puter is 1/2 hour.
That's right. Good hint. :t
Gunther
Or, just don't store anything on your computers that you can't afford to lose. That's what I do. :-)
ANUNITU,
I was worried,...thought you were devoured by Godzilla,...
Good to see you are still alive. :biggrin:
The wife's computer locked up and was making the clicking sounds of death last night on boot. Luckily for her a hardware reset got it going again so she could burn some CDs of her photos and do a more recent backup to USB stick of her documents.
Of course it works perfectly fine today too... I did warn her that it'll probably fail completely in the next few months. My last failure was 6 months from start of clicking/random spinup/down to complete failure. :-)
i would guess days, if that - lol
Quote from: dedndave on June 20, 2014, 06:37:59 AM
i would guess days, if that - lol
Hi,
The last few times I had a hard drive clicking, the drive had
become unusable. Even tried the mythical put it in the freezer
cure once.
Regards,
Steve N.
i have had some luck with chilling the unit - it depends on the failure mode
the clicking sound is caused by the drive attempting to seek - and not finding a track
it tries again and again - the arm with the heads on it traverses the entire radius of the disk
quite often, the problem is related to the head current
which - can be a thermal issue - as the unit heats up, a defective circuit might find a "run-away" condition
of course, if the head driver circuit has failed completely, temperature won't matter