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    HDD Crashed

    Discussion in 'Sager and Clevo' started by p_boucher, Aug 21, 2007.

  1. p_boucher

    p_boucher Notebook Evangelist NBR Reviewer

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    Ah well.

    A chance I did a backup of all my drive before sending it to Eurocom last week for my mobo replacement.

    This morning I was working and all of a sudden, I crashed, like 10000 times per week in Windows and with the Oracle Dev environment.

    Mmmm, well, the thing wouldn't boot anymore. Drive motor seems to be busted. Pretty unusual things for Seagate drives.

    Another luck I have is that I was moving data to my new Seagate 160gb and the drive was almost ready. I just did not have the time to back up my Oracle registry key but hopefully it will be a minor hassle.

    So I don't think we say this that often but : DO FREAKING REGULAR BACKUPS!
     
    p_boucher, Aug 21, 2007
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    dragooon93 Notebook Consultant

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    thanks, its nice to have a wakeup call, will do! sorry bout your data man....
     
    dragooon93, Aug 21, 2007
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    Harry Notebook Consultant

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    did you ask for a replacement HDD?
     
    Harry, Aug 21, 2007
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  4. p_boucher

    p_boucher Notebook Evangelist NBR Reviewer

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    Yeah! Yesterday sent an email to the same support guy who got my lappy for my motherboard replacement and a new drive should be in tomorrow :-D.

    It's not that bad. Like I said I already started a move for a new Seagate 160gb SATA 300 and my installation was almost completed. And I did a massive copy of all software/docs on an external drive before sending it for servicing.

    I completed my Oracle tools installation this morning and I am almost fully operational on the new drive right now. Dammit getting fully back on your feet takes time :-/.
     
    p_boucher, Aug 22, 2007
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    dit_xi Notebook Evangelist

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    Bummer! I used RAID 0 once, my HD crashed and lost every thing. photos, documents, tax filings. good thing i had hard printed copies of everything. Definitely back up everything.
     
    dit_xi, Aug 22, 2007
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