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Dr. Mabuse
Septic Fiend
Sweden
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 Posted - 01/22/2005 : 16:50:40
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I just had a harddrive crash.
The toasted drive took with it 30+ Gigs of 7000 to 8000 mp3 files.
All mp3 files were sorted, and I had all files' mp3-tags controlled and corrected to include title, album, artist, year, genre, etc.
Now I will have to rip off all my CDs again, and start searching for all those albums I don't have.
I pressent this as undisputable evidence that:
1) There is no God.  
or
2) If there is a God, then He's a f***ng sadist. 
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Ricky
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Dave W.
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
14408 Posts |
Posted - 01/22/2005 : 20:00:11 [Permalink]
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quote:
Originally posted by Dave W.
I bet I know someone who'll be doing regular backups from now on...
And God shall smite thy backups with Worm and Virus, O thou vile unbelievers!
O, how ye who write heresies and blasphemies shall suffer! And O, how we, the Righteous, shall glory in the howling of your curses as you encounter Satan's Blue Screen of Death, as you so richly deserve!
Repent now, foul infidels! Repent, accept The Savior, and recieve the Blessings of Everlasting Files! Repent now lest ye be consigned to the Gehenna of Formating the Drive of See and yet never regaining that which thou hast lost!
And donate generously to the Church of the Desicated Cockroach (services held every Friday and Saturday night at the biker bar. All willing to buy a round are welcome. The Most Rev'nd filthy presiding).
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Dr. Mabuse
Septic Fiend
Sweden
9688 Posts |
Posted - 01/22/2005 : 20:48:54 [Permalink]
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quote:
Originally posted by Dave W.
I bet I know someone who'll be doing regular backups from now on...
The really bitter thing about it is that for the last week, I've been rearranging stuff on all my HDD's to get related things ordered in the same place, just to make it easier to make backups. And then this shit happens.
Well, I guess it could be worse, I have 300 GB of other collected stuff... that have taken long time to collect, mainly because it hasn't been released on DVD. Like "7 Days" and "Space: Above and Beyond" and all seven seasons of "MacGyver". |
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Cuneiformist
The Imperfectionist
USA
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Posted - 01/22/2005 : 21:11:20 [Permalink]
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quote:
Originally posted by Dr. Mabuse
Well, I guess it could be worse, I have 300 GB of other collected stuff... that have taken long time to collect, mainly because it hasn't been released on DVD. Like "7 Days" and "Space: Above and Beyond" and all seven seasons of "MacGyver".
You have all seven seasons of MacGyver on your HD? Amazing! |
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Dr. Mabuse
Septic Fiend
Sweden
9688 Posts |
Posted - 01/22/2005 : 22:00:32 [Permalink]
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| Take an extra look at my signature... |
Dr. Mabuse - "When the going gets tough, the tough get Duct-tape..."
Dr. Mabuse whisper.mp3
"Equivocation is not just a job, for a creationist it's a way of life..." Dr. Mabuse
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woolytoad
Skeptic Friend
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Posted - 01/23/2005 : 03:25:28 [Permalink]
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| Perhaps if you had a paper clip, a rubber band and some gum, Mabuse, you could have prevented this tragedy. |
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Tim
SFN Regular
USA
775 Posts |
Posted - 01/23/2005 : 05:31:47 [Permalink]
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| Dr. M, I feel for you. Luckily I have about %80 of my mp3 files on cd, but how long did it take to tag 8000 mp3 files? I need to know. I gave that crap up in the first 1000. Man, I have way too many pics to edit to worry about the mp3's. |
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Siberia
SFN Addict
Brazil
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Posted - 01/23/2005 : 07:50:00 [Permalink]
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| That is truly evil. |
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Wendy
SFN Regular
USA
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Posted - 01/23/2005 : 08:06:26 [Permalink]
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quote:
Originally posted by woolytoad
Perhaps if you had a paper clip, a rubber band and some gum, Mabuse, you could have prevented this tragedy.
Ah, yes. And hairspray.
My sympathies, Dr. Mabuse. There truly is no God.
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beskeptigal
SFN Die Hard
USA
3834 Posts |
Posted - 01/24/2005 : 01:46:01 [Permalink]
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I presume you know as much as any techie but we had a crash a few months ago and the guy at the repair shop salvaged our files. Best $65.00 I'd spent in a while.
He used his HD to access our files, put them in an "old files" folder and fixed the machine. Everything was in there from programs to files and we just had to go to that folder to get them.
Also, I bought a program to recover lost Word files. It actually worked. The corrupt files only had small pieces that were actually not recoverable. It saved me hours of work as I was rewriting an entire infection control policy for a hospital when the file crashed. I had been saving my work as I went but hadn't backed up the file as I wasn't finished so all the changes I had made in the previous few hours was lost. But then it was found. |
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Starman
SFN Regular
Sweden
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Posted - 01/24/2005 : 03:05:13 [Permalink]
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quote:
Originally posted by Dr. Mabuse
I pressent this as undisputable evidence that:
1) There is no God.
or
2) If there is a God, then He's a f***ng sadist.
3) Pastor Phelps is right. |
"Any religion that makes a form of torture into an icon that they worship seems to me a pretty sick sort of religion quite honestly"
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Ricky
SFN Die Hard
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Dr. Mabuse
Septic Fiend
Sweden
9688 Posts |
Posted - 01/24/2005 : 10:16:42 [Permalink]
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As soon as power is applied the drive spins up and starts making cyclic clicks and whirrs.
I think it's the head that keeps trying to calibrate itself, then misses and try to recalibrate.
It does not even show up in BIOS, and IBM:s disk-diagnostic tool will not acknowledge the drive as present either. So, it's pretty much screwed, unless someone here knows how to revive it.
Edited to add: It was an IBM (Hitachi) DeskStar. Together with my girlfriend, we've had 3 out of 5 DeskStar drives fail on us. I will never buy such junk again. Seagate has never failed on me. |
Dr. Mabuse - "When the going gets tough, the tough get Duct-tape..."
Dr. Mabuse whisper.mp3
"Equivocation is not just a job, for a creationist it's a way of life..." Dr. Mabuse
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Send them unarmed civilians for target practice..
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| Edited by - Dr. Mabuse on 01/24/2005 10:20:15 |
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Dude
SFN Die Hard
USA
6891 Posts |
Posted - 01/24/2005 : 11:13:32 [Permalink]
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Maxtor drives have been reliable for me. I have 4 100gb Maxtors (with 8mb cache) set up in a raid-0. Works well.
Also, fyi, I have been seeing adds here in the US for the first season of McGuyver on DVD.
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Ignorance is preferable to error; and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing, than he who believes what is wrong.
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"god :: the last refuge of a man with no answers and no argument." - G. Carlin
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