harddrive... dying

Gunslinger42 · Post by **Gunslinger42** » May 22nd, 2008, 10:58

Turned computer on this morning and the harddrive is making a grinding noise with some horrible clicking noises and the system fails to boot, asking me to put the system disc in. I do and hit repair, disc says theres no harddrive to repair. FAIL.

Then I turn it off and on again and despite the clicking and grinding it turns on, which is how I'm posting right now *while doing a massive document dump to a usb pen*

Chickenz · Post by **Chickenz** » May 22nd, 2008, 11:15

Karma just bit you in the ass.

Gunslinger42 · Post by **Gunslinger42** » May 22nd, 2008, 11:17

I need to find my username and password for about a million different things and either memorize them or back them up

Post by **Dog Pants** » May 22nd, 2008, 11:21

If it survives long enough to back all your shit up, use what remaining time you have to go onto Ebuyer or something and buy a new one, then an external HDD to put all the stuff you just backed up onto.

Gunslinger42 · Post by **Gunslinger42** » May 22nd, 2008, 11:29

Yeah, I'll order a new one while backing stuff up

Also loading 2142 to find out the bloody ea username = fail

Post by **Dog Pants** » May 22nd, 2008, 11:31

Pffft.

*Hopes I can remember mine*

spoodie · Post by **spoodie** » May 22nd, 2008, 11:37

http://keepass.info/ FTW

But make sure you don't forget your master password, like I nearly did. And keep two copies, one on a USB key ideally.

Stoat · Post by **Stoat** » May 22nd, 2008, 13:30

If you use Firefox's password keeper you'll want to make sure you have a copy of signons*.txt and key*.db.
Of course you'll want a copy of your profile anyway for ease, but be doubly sure you have those.

Gunslinger42 · Post by **Gunslinger42** » May 22nd, 2008, 13:57

Website passwords aren't a problem, I tend to just remember them all. Things that I never ever manually put in (steam password, beef passwords, etc) are the things I always forget

Post by **ProfHawking** » May 22nd, 2008, 14:11

funny you should mention this.
I've just boxed up one of my raptors to go back to Western Digital...

No nice grinding tho to give me any warning, just a sudden feckload of smart errors and no longer working.

Docs, and important stuff all backed up, so im mostly fine. But i have to re-download all my steam games, firefox data gone, stuff on the desktop etc.

Pain in the ass these hard drives when they go tits up.

Post by **deject** » May 22nd, 2008, 15:00

Chickenz wrote:Karma just bit you in the ass.

haha I was going to say this.

Post by **deject** » May 22nd, 2008, 15:16

spoodie wrote:http://keepass.info/ FTW

But make sure you don't forget your master password, like I nearly did. And keep two copies, one on a USB key ideally.

this is what I do now, so much easier.

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » May 22nd, 2008, 22:30

Remember to back your cod4/players folder up.

Gunslinger42 · Post by **Gunslinger42** » May 22nd, 2008, 23:41

Dr. kitteny berk wrote:Remember to back your cod4/players folder up.

I've already backed up the profiles/gunslinger folder up, minus the saves bit since there was a bunch of them from the sp taking up lots of memory.

After hearing about multiple people failing to do so it was one of the first things I did.

Gunslinger42 · Post by **Gunslinger42** » May 22nd, 2008, 23:44

Though I must say the harddrive seems to be perfectly fine now, after grinding and clicking and failing twice in a row it just stopped and has been working perfectly ever since.

Still, it was a good excuse to get a new one, I'd pretty much filled all 250gb of this one

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » May 23rd, 2008, 21:02

ProfHawking wrote:funny you should mention this.
I've just boxed up one of my raptors to go back to Western Digital...

Funnily enough, I've just RMA'd one of my raptors for being a weird bitch.