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So, progress is lost, all existing files may be in danger, and I have to buy a new hard drive I guess!
Sorry for this second delay… it’s getting very frustrating.
So, progress is lost, all existing files may be in danger, and I have to buy a new hard drive I guess!
Sorry for this second delay… it’s getting very frustrating.
Aw man, that’s terrible! I’m sorry. I’ve had pretty good luck with the free PSDRecover plugin in these instances; it extracts your PSD layers as PNG files, which is better than having to re-do the whole thing:
http://www.telegraphics.net/sw/product/PSDRecover
Might be worth a shot!
Wow, thanks, I didn’t know about that!
I usually go through the lengthy process of using the chkdsk command on the whole drive, with mixed results. I’ve completed the whole salvage/replacement procedure, and for now losses seem minimal (although the new disk creaks like my old win98 Compaq, but it’s apparently normal – brings some nostalgia^^).
I’ll definitely try that on the files that weren’t fixed!
oh no :((( i’m so sorry this happened
New hard drive is inbound, I’ll install it on Tuesday or Wednesday, in the meantime not touching the faulty disk, we’ll know then the extent of damage. Could be close to nothing ^^
Oh merde. I am so sorry. I’m limping on a 10 y/o base model lenovo (it’s okay, but I wouldn’t trust it with even 10 y/o cad work much less any game bigger than D3)
Wow, it sounds like a miracle that it’s even running at all! What annoys me with what happened is that I bought the disk a couple of years back and it’s supposed to be decent quality (Seagate).
I’ve always had the worst luck with Seagate, every disk failure I’ve every suffered (all two of them) has been a Seagate.
My current potatoe* is over 20 years old, but the Western Digital HDs are still running strong. And the pair of 1TB WD Blacks I use as external and backup drives are also doing fine…. honestly the lack of GPU and the slowly dying memory are my only issues (and the old as f- motherboard). But I also don’t rely on this old girl for my work, it’s my “play” machine (read as “surf the internet”, no GPU means very few games will run on it now).
* The previous gaming computer died a horrible lightning strike, so I just moved the HDs back to the previous-previous beast, which was no longer used because the GPU had died… but, well, it’s held on forever. I suspect that when I can finally afford to replace it, the next compy will serve 5-10 years and then it too will die and I’ll keep having to go back to this old FrankenDell I cobbled together from old used parts I bought from a going out of business sale back in the early oughts.
Sorry, I use a pair of 5TB WD Black ‘gaming’ HDs as my external and backup drives. They work like champs.
Kinda reassuring as I ordered a 16TB Western Digital Gold 🙂
I completely follow you on the hardware strategy : always robust, be it cheap and old for modest use, or new and expensive for extensive use. I’ve had this computer for close to 10 years now, and the only things I replaced in it were non-essential.
The only Western Digital I’ve ever seen “go bad” went out because the power supply caguth on fire!
So I really can’t blame WD for that. I have the same ‘luck’ with PNY when it comes to thumbdrives, no matter how often they go in the washing machine, they still work just fine, whereas every other brand has died on me after a washing or two (I know, I should check my pockets better).
Haha what, too many wires plugged into the same place? Well that’s kind of reassuring^^
“Too many wires”… kinda? This was back before me and my buddies really understood that power supplies had ratings (or what that meant) and my buddy had just bought one of them fancy shmancy dual gpus with all the bells and whistles. A month later while playing Crysis 2 with all the graphics maxed he started smelling burning plastic and then a moment later his computer let all the magic smoke out.
Suffice to say the power supply was jetting flames into the computer… it was a whole damn thing. Could have been worse, but coincidentally his Dad was checking the fire extinguisher* in the hallway closet and heard him shout “OH SHIT FIRE!” so his Dad came busting in with the fire extinguisher ready.
And that’s the only Western Digital hd I’ve ever seen fail (it didn’t look damaged, but it refused to work after that), and I honestly don’t have a problem with it failing in that regard.
I also had a compy catch fire once (a tiny fire that went out immediately) in a lighting strike. The apartment building was hit right where the phone lines came in, the phone lines just melted, took out our phones, the router caught on fire†, the phone line to the computer slagged, the motherboard’s modem flamed out (I know because I had the case side panel off for better heat dispersion so I saw it jet a flame out), and the the motherboard shorted all the terminal points to the modem. The rest of the motherboard, cpu, gpu, the hds, the memory sticks, power supply were all just fine, I figure the the router and modem (and all the phone lines and our phones) took a lightning bullet for the rest of the computer. Just a blackened spot where the old modem had sat‡ and a small warped spot in the plastic case where a flame jetted out the other side of the modem and motherboard.
* His Dad was one of those “safety fanatic” types who actually do monthly checks on things like fire extinguishers, smoke alarms, etc, and was just doing his end of the month rounds at that moment. Pure coincidence saved it from being a little bit worse, my buddy had hopped up and was opening the door to get the fire extinguisher, so at worst it would have been more smoke and maybe his comic books or piles of dirty clothes catching fire (which were stacked in boxes right next to the computer, he no longer has anything around his computer, just in case – he still has stacks of comic boxes and dirty clothes piles though, some things will never change).
† I just grabbed it up yanked the cords out of it (yeah they were hot!) while it was flaming and tossed it into the sink in my bathroom, I figured I’d deal with the computer and come back to put the modem out if necessary. It was out by the time I’d assessed the computer and opened a window to let smoke out.
‡ I actually just went ahead and cut that part of the motherboard off, it was pretty isolated in the upper corner, like it was designed as a fail safe point (it might have been). It was an ASUS motherboard so I’ve had a lot of faith in them ever since as well.
What an epic! So well told too, you could make a whole thing out of this^^ my imagination caught fire a little too, I think.
I felt just a little bad for laughing at how unbelievable the stack of facts sounds! And at the same time it really sets a new bar in known computery disasters. With all that in perspective, I’m just telling myself I’m very lucky to have only experienced very normal and tame malfunctions.
Thank you for the tales 🙂