My HDD crashed.......:(

[techreactor]

My HDD crashed suddenly on Friday afternoon and although i revived it a bit and am currently working from the same(till the replacement arrives), but I was rendered useless for 2 days over the weekend.

Motto of the story is to keep backing up your Data, I had a 10 days old backup for this one, till I revived it and have the latest backup.

Although I always thought that laptop HDD failure is very rare but was proven wrong by this failure. :!

[anonymez]

my 2nd hdd crashed a while ago (see the dual-core thread), due to a lightning storm. i lost a LOT of data, all of it video/movies. i had ~90% of it backed up anyway, so it wasn't too bad for me.

the drive is fine, ran the extensive test with data lifeguard tools, its in perfect condition, just suffered data corruption.

$hite happens

[Chewy]

An older client/friend of mine has a vacation home, all electronic equiptment
plugs into power strips, all strips are turned off when he leaves or
threatening weather approaches, he's a genius scientist that understands
all the technical stuff, does international enviromental consulting.
His trust in surge protectors = zero

[jeo]

His trust in surge protectors = zero

it's true Chewy.
the real protection is "unplug" everything.

[cynthia]

Always wondered if the S.M.A.R.T warning mechanism works. There is even a freeware program that will support it under Windows (as Windows don't support it by itself).

HDD Health

Anyone who used/is using this program?

[Chewy]

hint: default setting in all bios, is disabled

[cynthia]

hint: perhaps because not supported in most operating systems

[Chewy]

doesn't s.m.a.r.t. warn at bootup if enabled?

[cynthia]

Hmm, never tried it myself lately. Just curious if anybody used that feature.

[Chewy]

too many false positives long ago and far away

[drfsupercenter]

You mean Star Wars? "A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away" I have never had a hard drive crash, but I had Windows go corrupted once, because I manually shutdown the PC during spyware installation and screwed it up. I was able to do a repair install and retrieve all my data, then I reformatted the HD.

[Chewy]

I was able to do a repair install and retrieve all my data, then I reformatted the HD.

good move, very smart