Do you have anything in your room that might be producing a magnetic field, like a large/heavy speaker or amplifier? I've killed a usb thumbdrive with a subwoofer before.
That's so annoying. Mine died last month. It had been sent to me by Maxtor as a replacement for the previous one, about six months before. *facepalm* At least it's still under warranty, so I got a new one.
ah never knew that. try getting your computers to RAID mode. (gaah this MIS stuff I still remember). You can get two hard drives which mirror each other, so when one fails, the other one is used. :D. i think it doesn't matter what brand, as long as mahaba ang warranty.
true true. sir coronel once said that the hard drive heats up enough to fry an egg. apple macbooks are prone daw to this damage since there were early reports of macs being too hot to put on your lap (somewhere in those reviews before)
get one of those linux live cds and save data through a usb stick. ubuntu seems the best at these things, but you can try specialty distro's like DSL, sysresccd (sysresccd.org), or others. (me thinks they're bootable on a mac, i'm not sure, but i just think linux runs on anything). find the version for the right chipset, if intel na yung sayo, most likely may runable na diyan. but if not, find the one for ppc. try this link i googled : http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20050302225659382 "Recover a dead hard drive using dd"
http://www.stellarinfo.com/download.htm -> free i think na hd recov soft http://www.prosofteng.com/ -> another one http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=2686 ->coming from apple.
goodluck though. i think i should install them too for my own good.
oh and do back up to gmail (if you have broadband, why not?). XD. they also invented this thing called gmail HD, which accesses gmail as if it were a hard drive.
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Date: 2007-06-26 05:23 pm (UTC)I've killed a usb thumbdrive with a subwoofer before.
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Date: 2007-06-29 03:25 am (UTC)The first HD I had suffered from mechanical failure (loud grating scratching noises). This second one is dying from bad sectors.
AT first, the OS slowed down horribly (I/O errors), and now it won't boot at all. Heh.
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Date: 2007-06-26 06:57 pm (UTC)BTW, do you have any recs for HD brands?
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Date: 2007-06-27 12:55 am (UTC)oops.. :P
*hugs*
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Date: 2007-06-29 03:25 am (UTC)Thank you T_T
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Date: 2007-06-29 09:25 am (UTC)The other one I'm not sure, but the problem is showing up as bad sectors.
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Date: 2007-06-29 09:38 am (UTC)Bad sectors - ouch! :o
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Date: 2007-06-29 10:23 pm (UTC)apple macbooks are prone daw to this damage since there were early reports of macs being too hot to put on your lap (somewhere in those reviews before)
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Date: 2007-06-29 03:28 am (UTC)Thank you for the advice though :D Wish I could have made it work.
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Date: 2007-06-29 04:42 pm (UTC)Coincidence though, I just got myself a new HD (160GB). O_o
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Date: 2007-06-27 01:37 pm (UTC)ubuntu seems the best at these things, but you can try specialty distro's like DSL, sysresccd (sysresccd.org), or others. (me thinks they're bootable on a mac, i'm not sure, but i just think linux runs on anything). find the version for the right chipset, if intel na yung sayo, most likely may runable na diyan. but if not, find the one for ppc.
try this link i googled : http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20050302225659382
"Recover a dead hard drive using dd"
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Date: 2007-06-29 03:30 am (UTC)I think at this point I've pretty much resigned myself to having my data lost, but thanks so much for the tips and investigating a possible solution!
welcome. XD
Date: 2007-06-29 04:58 am (UTC)http://www.prosofteng.com/ -> another one
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=2686 ->coming from apple.
goodluck though. i think i should install them too for my own good.
oh and do back up to gmail (if you have broadband, why not?). XD. they also invented this thing called gmail HD, which accesses gmail as if it were a hard drive.