No, I have not become a viewer of enigmatic cult show. Rather, I bring much sadder news (for yours truly at least). Yesterday, my dear PC refused to boot. It appeared that the long fruitful life of my Hard drive had come to an end. After spending all night reinstall, running disk scans, and trying repairs, I was able to get her to boot and begin to survey the damage. It appeared that .5% or so of my hard disk had gone bad. This doesn't sound bad, but this means over 1GB of data was lost.
While a lot of this data was bits and pieces of programs that can be reinstalled, the heaviest hit was the loss of my main Inbox for my personal email. 5+ years of emails, mostly gone. Fortunately, all my emails from my fiancee are still present, as they had been copied to a different email folder.
Also, it looks like while I may have lost some photos, the vast majority of them are still there.
So, while overall frustrating, and time consuming (I am still doing installs, and recovery, and lots more to do), I am glad that the data loss was not much worse.
When drives start to go bad, they can quickly become worse and worse. So, I wasted no time and purchased a new drive today. The silver lining is that now, instead of a 200GB HDD, I now have a 320GB HDD. This also gives me an opportunity to do some housecleaning, only copying over files I plan to use.
I put a fresh install on the new drive, and am in the process of reinstalling what I need to use. I will also pick through my old files and get them copied over. I still have to big hassle of getting my songs (and hopefully playlists and song ratings) from my iPod to my new HDD, which Apple does not make easy.
Oh, my Crysis save (the only PC game I am actively playing on my main PC currently) was also lost, but the game is so damn fun that I don't mind starting fresh :)
2 comments:
Sucks, man. Hopefully you can make the transition to a new hard drive smooth and without too many more losses.
Thanks, yea, it is major sucks. I've got the most important files (emails that weren't lost and pictures) transferred to my new PC. I also ordered a second new HDD online. So, I'll use that for regular backups (it is bigger than the one I just bought, so I'll probably also use it for storing additional program data that can be lost without me really caring).
The bright side of this is the new larger hard drives, and it gives me a good excuse to start fresh and only install what I need, eliminating a lot of the junk that naturally accumulated over 4 years of usage.
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