Windows Screwed me over - hard drive failure - any suggestions?

the whte rbt · 04-25-2006, 12:10 AM

Windows. Hence the subject of my post.

So i've used ZAR to extract a lot of the data that remains intact. 17% of the data was destroyed, but i'm hopeful about the rest. i was able to recover most of the footage from my movie, and have put it back together. Thanks again.

rkelsen · 04-25-2006, 01:45 AM

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Anyone have any insight as to what caused that and how i can prevent it in the future?

Flaky hardware. Personally, I've never used one, but a friend has had 3 out of his last 3 Maxtors fail. He has now switched to another brand.

Wim Sturkenboom · 04-25-2006, 02:58 AM

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Windows. Hence the subject of my post.

But this is a linux forum

the whte rbt · 04-25-2006, 07:54 PM

haha i know, and i apologize... but you guys are infinitely more helpful than the n00bs in any other forum.

ScottReed · 04-26-2006, 06:56 PM

I'm glad you got your data back.

I use 2 Maxtor 6Y080M0 drives in RAID 1 configuration. Never had any trouble in the almost 2 years since I built this box.

Whenever you are working with crucial information, like your video, it is best to always backup to another media/device regularly. I don't care if you are using WD, Seagate, Maxtor or Hitachi drives, it doesn't matter, you MUST backup your pertinent data.

Scott