Tachikoma: fix my HD T_T

Few days ago, suddenly my partitions were gone on my 1TB Samsung HD103UJ (which I bought for my bday 6months ago)
It will boot up but it’s not accessible anymore, my system now recognizes it as a 8gb drive.
I only used it for storage, but what I lost exactly? I have no idea…
I do know I had a partition of 500gb worth of asian DVD’s, but titles? I couldn’t name them.
the other 350gb were anime shows, j-drama shows, american tv-shows and stuff I don’t remember now.

I tried anything, placed it in my other rig – no go
I tried to format it – no go
even Tachikoma couldn’t fix it…

then I tried several data recovery utilities, the only thing I could salvage from the drive were (don’t laugh) a few JAV-movies XD

In total I think I lost around 850gb of data. But for some reason I don’t feel too sad about it. (maybe because I got other things on my mind?)
Once I said: I’d rather buy 2x500gb drives instead of 1 larger drive, cos if it dies, the loss will be less painful.
That’s so true, my main rig has/had 2x500gb+1x1TB.  The other 2 drives have been working flawlessly for 2-3 years now.

Oh, don’t you just love Tachikoma? ^_^
I’m a huge GITS fanatic, it’s definitely my alltime favorite anime. (not to mention, Motoko is like the only female character I worship hehe)

-Tequila

Update: I got my HD back from RMA, well not the drive that went bad ofcourse, I got a brand new one. Now to find time to set it up… Not sure if I will put an OS on it this time.



4 Responses to “Tachikoma: fix my HD T_T”

  1. Actar says:

    I can understand your pain… My first External Hard Drive was a 500GB Seagate one. Within a month, data kept getting corrupted for no reason. Luckily, it was very isolated.

    Right now, I have 2 Western Digital HDs (recommended). One 500GB and one 1TB.

    Currently, I have 2 copies of everything. Either one on my Laptop and one on the 500GB Drive or one on my 1TB Drive. Some stuff have even been burned to DVDs.

    I am very carefull with this as Drive Failure and data loss are some of my greatest fears.

    So, it’s actually very important to back up everything.

  2. Tequila says:

    There was a time when HD’s were smaller in size, it was easier to ‘backup’

    but I’m not going to backup an entire TB drive, that’s just not realistic.

  3. JiangQin says:

    nice photo…
    HDs keep getting cheaper, so the quality goes from bad to worse

  4. Tequila says:

    Seems like it, remember those old bulky VCR’s from the 80′s? Indestructible…

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