Top Secret Info Lost

[bornl33t]

Man what a week. The day of finals, for a computer class I my HD to a butt load of spyware. Eventually it was unusable, and I will admit I knew it was going to happen with the amount of warez sites that I've been hitting up latly.
SO a week later I get 2 spanking new 80's at133's in the mail. Backed up my 3.7 gig's of mp3's, pictures, my favorites, everything. Then started the new HD up. Transfered my 3.7 gigs of stuff back to the main drive and started setting it up the way I like it. Then formate the drive I had been using as my main drive. As I was updateing XP with the SP1 I was cleaning the piles of boxes from mobo's, HD's etc up and accidentaly hit the power button effectivly knocking off my main drive agian. CRAP.

Then in a moment of stupidity I forgot to recover the info again and formated the new main drive also. LOST IT ALL. Is that a bad thing? Well.....3.7gig's is about 2 years of stuff. That I'll never see again

[eddie885221]

that sux the big one, i feel sorry for u man, i had that happen to me i had like 3 years of stuff and the hard drive completely crashed and i had no backup for it so i was devestated(sp?)

[Automaggin2]

Happened to me a few times. Mostly becuase I was stupid. Never trust RAID arrays

[Ironmag]

3.7 gigs is chump change compared to the 70+ gigs of info I lost on my 2nd HD last year. 5 years worth of mp3's, 1000's of pics from my digital camera, a whole bunch of video's and most of my college work over the years and many other things gone on a HD failure. Take my advice, NEVER buy an IBM Deskstar HD, a computer tech friend of mine says that in his experience they are called the Deathstar since a high percentage of HD failure that he's worked on were on those drives. It really blows when you lose years of memories and work in an instant.

[Automaggin2]

Well, if a hard drive just completly stops working one day, the data is steal retrievable, but it will just cost you a hefty one.

[e mag]

Well, if a hard drive just completly stops working one day, the data is steal retrievable, but it will just cost you a hefty one.

Not necessarily, i have heard of people having a hd crash and then swap the platters into another that is the same model and had it work. If you just formatted then try a data recovery program like get data back for ntfs, unless you wrote zeros to the disk, which i dont think the xp setup can even do, you might still be able to get it back. What are you doing on warez websites? they have to be the worst way to pirate stuff besides p2p and bittorrent. i didnt even know they still existed.

[_tMAN]

My brother lost 200 gigs off of his raid meltdown. Good thing we both have 2 200 gig hard drives. We back eachother up. plus we have a 400 gig server at my house. If either of our computers goes down again it's not more than buying a new hard drive and driving to eachother's houses

[animal]

If you're really worried about it you could always software mirror that stuff. Or start burning all the important stuff like pictures, etc to a CD> The way I look at it (I'm a sys admin too) there's no excuse for losing data that you know you'll need later.

But then again I don't work from a home computer budget either.

[Lumberjack]

Ever since I got my DVD burner, I do a full back up twice a year.. Any important files I burn imediately. Ya never can be too careful.