5punk

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*

Karma just bit you in the ass.

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

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.

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

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

Pffft.


*Hopes I can remember mine*

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.

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.

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

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.

Chickenz wrote:Karma just bit you in the ass.

haha I was going to say this.

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.

Remember to back your cod4/players folder up.

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.

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

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.