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Miscellaneous HD problems

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Arveene:
Good to hear you saved everything important. That's what counts.

crossed:

--- Quote from: Tiffanys on March 26, 2010, 12:50:20 AM ---it seems there were somewhere in the ballpark of 40-60 GB worth of bad sectors

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Holy cow! What brand of drive is this?!

Tiffanys:

--- Quote from: crossed on April 03, 2010, 05:57:32 PM ---
--- Quote from: Tiffanys on March 26, 2010, 12:50:20 AM ---it seems there were somewhere in the ballpark of 40-60 GB worth of bad sectors

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Holy cow! What brand of drive is this?!

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Western Digital, it's a 1TB Caviar Black WD1001FALS. I think it may have been more of an upwards of 80 GB too.

Xiong Chiamiov:

--- Quote from: Tiffanys on March 26, 2010, 12:50:20 AM ---Well, I'm paranoid... I don't take risks.  :P I've already purchased another TB HDD today and I'm about to clone my C drive to it (which is unfortunately the one affected). Once that's done, I'll send it in for an RMA.

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You're not nearly paranoid enough if you waited for issues to appear to introduce redundancy of your data.

Tiffanys:

--- Quote from: Xiong Chiamiov on April 06, 2010, 05:55:35 AM ---
--- Quote from: Tiffanys on March 26, 2010, 12:50:20 AM ---Well, I'm paranoid... I don't take risks.  :P I've already purchased another TB HDD today and I'm about to clone my C drive to it (which is unfortunately the one affected). Once that's done, I'll send it in for an RMA.

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You're not nearly paranoid enough if you waited for issues to appear to introduce redundancy of your data.

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Oh, that's not true at all... I already had the most important things backed up on another hdd and dvd's as well. It just wasn't current, so it would've been a real hassle to get back the stuff I consider non-important (like a bunch of anime I've downloaded and could easily redownload, but it'd pretty much murder my ratio) and the few things I hadn't backed up yet that are important.

It's a lot easier to just clone the hdd. Setting up the OS and all the settings and programs and crap is a real pain.

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