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So, you know the funny smell of a good roasted hard disk, dont you? Well, I DO - since last monday (03.05.2004), my notebook hdd has totally failed, gone down the drain, whatever.

With ALL my fucking data of half a year - UN-backup'ed!
God fuck it!

... Read my big rage rant over there. Dont got the nerve now to repeat all over and over again, sorry ;)

cu, w0lf.

ps: yes, I'm currently using a UN-hdd'ed 'puter, booting from Knoppix 3.4 CD-ROM only Linux. At least this stuff still works well .. although all my projects, ideas, etc. are obviously killed - only if I'd find a program to do a bit-by-bit hdd analysis ... but where? Any suggestions?

Multiple exclamation marks are a sure sign for a diseased mind!

I feel your pain, w0lf. My HD crashed earlier this year and I lost a motherlode of data. Sorry to hear the news, but I hope you find luck in replacing/restoring anything and everything possible.

Thbbbbt

This begs the question. How often do laptop hard disks fail? I have a laptop that is a 3 ghz and it gets unbelievably hot. I don't fancy loosing my hard drive and all my data because of heat killing the drive.

Gateway WindowsXP Professional. Happened while I was upgrading and downloading NIS/NAV! One worm ans six virus's came on board.
Then I ran fix and it said to restart. So I did and it didn't, toast hard drive failure. Last two weeks have been hard on windowsxp,2000. Well I got another one now, I think it must be the heaviest lap top in the world. hp pavillionzd2000 it weighs more than a 12 pack! Good luck to you all.

Panther

Pavillions rock, but toast bad....;[

(Insight in it's purest for!)

I should be ashamed of myself.

I managed to reformat, but not toast, my wonderful 160GB hdd a few months back, due to some weird hardware glitch which allowed a mouse i took home from the computer refurbishing organization i work at to butcher hard drives.

I managed to save most of the data by using a recovery tool that my school has, so you might want to look into that before you toss your "toasted" disks.

Do you like blue? I hope so, cuz thats the one thing about me that shall never change.