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Dead Drive Redux

Wed Aug 5, 2009, 5:01 PM
  • Mood: Pissed Off
  • Listening to: a cat
  • Reading: Honor Harrington
  • Playing: sometimes NWN2, DDO beta, or SofSE
  • Eating: chocolate chips
  • Drinking: whole milk
So I've been working on recovering my data since my brand-new drive crashed (it was less than a month old, and died two days after "backing up" everything to it), and it's a no-go. The boot drive from that build I'm still checking, as "all" I did was delete the partition from it. I'm scanning it pretty much on a day-to-day basis from sector to sector to see if my computer can actually find the information that was on it and wasn't REALLY deleted...

So needless to say, when I came home today and my computer was off, and the reason for it was my freaking surge protector had gotten its main power button flipped, my mood became the one listed with this post. My cat really couldn't have flipped that switch--for one thing, it requires a significant application of force, and the angle she'd've had to do it from, she would have knocked stuff off my desk. There's also little room for her to reach that angle anyways without falling off.

So a person pretty much had to have done it, and that really runs me towards fury. This scan doesn't just go fast; it's an extremely long, time-intensive task that if I try to do all at once was last estimating 1.3 years to completion, and still counting higher, when my computer ran out of RAM.

There's no way to avoid the power loss (though I'm tempted to put a deadbolt on my computer room door now), as even a UPS wouldn't have helped unless I'd been plugged into it after the surge protector, and the surge protector is working more as a multiplex than anything else, so that wouldn't have worked. But I'm trying to get around the RAM problem. See, that new drive that died? It was a 1TB. When Best Buy, where I got it, told me it was dead and I'd have to send it to the manufacturer? I got a 1.5TB. And I put roughly 2/3 of that drive down as virtual RAM. Coupled with the fact I'm now working on the scan in small sections, as well, I doubt I'll actually run out of RAM anytime soon. If I do.....then I may just concede defeat, admit the files are lost, and reformat the drive to regain my Raptor boot drive AS a boot drive instead of a survey in file recovery processes.

*has a thought* Oh yeah, I was going to check for a new version of that program.....nooooooo. No new version.
*grumbles*
No longer pissed off. Now merely irritated. I'm off.

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  • Current Residence: Kansas
  • Favourite poet or writer: Timothy Zahn or David Weber
  • Operating System: XP Pro (unless I go to Win7)
  • MP3 player of choice: seem t've lost it...
  • Skin of choice: .....Mine?
  • Favourite gaming platform: PC, nothing else please.
  • Tools of the Trade: Photoshop and the game I'm playing
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:icongrinnock:
Thanks for fav'ing my art!

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:iconking-irmc:
Coda looks just like my cat, Kali. :-) Positions and all.

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'42 Rules!

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BAttlefield 1942 rulez today! XD

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Fancy meeting you here of all places! Haha. I didn't realize you had one of these thingamabobs too.

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Thanks For the :+fav: and the Dev watch! you rock!

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Thanks for the new :+fav:'s Jedi-Corran Horn-san. I hope everything's going well in your new surroundings.
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Thanks for the :+fav: Lt Pugee.
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