Some advice...

[ARon]

Backup your shit. I'm about to be in tears as I sit here reformatting my desktop typing to you on my sister's laptop. I've lost all my music, except for what random shit I have on my iPods. I seriously feel like I've lost a loved one, this sucks. For the past year or so I've been telling myself to get another hardrive or two but of course I took no action as I thought nothing of it. Well, Mr. Virus got to me and I walked that plank of reformatting, with no data back up. All those hours of pain tagging every single song so precisely, the countless hours of enjoyment and fulfillment while listening, all of it now means nothing, eeriely similar to death now that I think of it.

So with death comes new beginning, I'm gonna miss all the shit I won't be able to think of. Rediscovering music that I forgot will be fun I guess, still, let me wipe these tears off this screen. So let this day live in infamy, The Great Crash of October the 6th will be in my memory forever, no pun intended with that be in my memory forever either lol. Exactly 3 weeks to the day of my upcoming birthday also, mother fuck. One of you more fortunate fucks should buy me/let me use your RS account for a month or two. I still can't compell myself to purchase one and after all my birthday is coming up.

I thank you for coming out, RIP hardrive.

 

[Preach]

every once in a while an external harddrive will be faulty. so i wanna get a new one and move all my music over to it because my music hdd is maybe a year old or so. but what if i buy a new one, move all my music there, and then the new one goes to shits? i so don't know what to do. maybe i'll have to have two backups of my music collection.

 

[Bender]

at one time i had 3 copies of all my mp3's.

my laptop has recently been serviced, i got it back and all my limewire shared files have dissappeared, im not sure if it is because my subscription ran out or not. i didn't think my shared files would be deleted because my subscription has expired.

but yeah, i back up all my favourite music, especially since i've spent hours downloadig them. I have two flash disks a 1gb and a 4gb that i use, plus my phone has 4gb of memory so i put all my mp3's on there too

 

[Bobby Sands]

How come you didnt back up your stuff before you reformatted your hard drive? or did the virus fuck up everything?

I have to reformat my hard drive one of the days, so i will be getting an external hard drive to back up everything..

If there are any tracks you need, let me know.

 

[Bender]

my laptop got a virus yesterday, it was called 'Britney Spears Sex Tape'

 

[Cooper]

My hd is damaged so im waiting for my new drives to arrive so i can recover it

 

[ARon]

I couldn't backup the files before I reformatted cus Windows couldn't even boot up. Now this windows install is stalling at 33/34 minutes which seems to be a common problem, so now I have to mess with this bullshit.

Yeshua, I had around 90gb of music that I lost. So my phone and a couple flash drives would do me nothing for me lol

 

[dillaxx]

You gandoo. You should have made the hard drive the slave drive and put it into another computer that was working with a HDD that did boot up normally. If it didn't boot up Windows, you still might be able to drag and drop some files onto the working HDD. I did it once with a HDD that was messed up because I unplugged the computer while Windows was updating. HDD worked fine as an external, backed up my shit, reformatted it, and it was fine afterwards.

Also, putting your HDD in your freezer for a bit tends to work as well.

 

[_carmi]

I feel your pain. I formatted my laptop 2 days ago. But I had back ups of my pictures, school assignments, but didn't back up all of my mp3s and lost all my tv shows and movies. I kept saying I needed an external HD too but now I'm seriously considering it.

 

[vg4030]

that sucks man, make sure you use a good program to get the files off you i-pod.. normally you can still keep the files names/details/album name etc in-tact.

 

[Duke]

You gandoo. You should have made the hard drive the slave drive and put it into another computer that was working with a HDD that did boot up normally. If it didn't boot up Windows, you still might be able to drag and drop some files onto the working HDD. I did it once with a HDD that was messed up because I unplugged the computer while Windows was updating. HDD worked fine as an external, backed up my shit, reformatted it, and it was fine afterwards.

Also, putting your HDD in your freezer for a bit tends to work as well.

Really? :blink:

 

[Bender]

Yeshua, I had around 90gb of music that I lost. So my phone and a couple flash drives would do me nothing for me lol

my laptop doesn't have 90gig :noworry:

 

[Farzin]

Ha ha!