Top 10 List of Data Loss Disasters of 2006
Monday, November 20, 2006 by aimzzz | Discussion: Personal Computing
This list lets the company blow it's own horn, but it's worth a look... my favorite:
don't use WD-40 on a noisy hard drive 
Top 10 List of Data Loss Disasters of 2006: http://www.ontrack.co.uk/special/data-disasters-2006.aspx?hp=Top10_2006
Skinhit
Reply #2 Tuesday, November 21, 2006 10:51 PM
Reply #2 Tuesday, November 21, 2006 10:51 PM
1st off what college professor is that ignorant? (well @ least one that we know of)
2nd my favorite had to be the guy who shipped his HD to the company wrapped in a dirty pair of socks!!! downright lazy and nasty. i mean what kind of person would think this is acceptable? hilarious... P.S. hi Starkers!
2nd my favorite had to be the guy who shipped his HD to the company wrapped in a dirty pair of socks!!! downright lazy and nasty. i mean what kind of person would think this is acceptable? hilarious... P.S. hi Starkers!
starkers
Reply #3 Wednesday, November 22, 2006 9:02 AM
Howdy Skinhit, 'tis nice ta see ya.
A personal data loss saga...well sort of.
Was running out of room on a 40gig storage drive so replaced it with a 160gig...and I was very careful to move all the data to its respective partition on the new drive...or so I thought. After hitting 'Move this folder' to shift my collection of wallpapers, it suddenly disappeared into cyberspace....another planet/universe. Despite a thorough, desperate and frantic search of all drives/recyclers it was never to be seen again....not until almost two years later.
When building my wife's puter I put in my old 40gig to give her some additional storage space....so I partitioned her 160gig, loaded Windows XP, fired her up and began to allocate, file/folder locations....when lo` and behold, there was my missing walls folder, hiding on my old D drive "How the **** did it get in there?" I thought to myself....being the 'Move this folder function can not send to the same location and had been set to the new E drive...
Oh well, all's well that ends well.....(oh, and Skinhit, could this one of those 'paperbag/incognito' threads that could go downhill real fast)....I even recovered some of my old walls with scantily clad babes.
Reply #3 Wednesday, November 22, 2006 9:02 AM
| P.S. hi Starkers! |
Howdy Skinhit, 'tis nice ta see ya.
A personal data loss saga...well sort of.
Was running out of room on a 40gig storage drive so replaced it with a 160gig...and I was very careful to move all the data to its respective partition on the new drive...or so I thought. After hitting 'Move this folder' to shift my collection of wallpapers, it suddenly disappeared into cyberspace....another planet/universe. Despite a thorough, desperate and frantic search of all drives/recyclers it was never to be seen again....not until almost two years later.
When building my wife's puter I put in my old 40gig to give her some additional storage space....so I partitioned her 160gig, loaded Windows XP, fired her up and began to allocate, file/folder locations....when lo` and behold, there was my missing walls folder, hiding on my old D drive "How the **** did it get in there?" I thought to myself....being the 'Move this folder function can not send to the same location and had been set to the new E drive...
Oh well, all's well that ends well.....(oh, and Skinhit, could this one of those 'paperbag/incognito' threads that could go downhill real fast)....I even recovered some of my old walls with scantily clad babes.
Skinhit
Reply #5 Thursday, November 23, 2006 11:54 PM
i just hope you got them off the misses drive before she saw them
Reply #5 Thursday, November 23, 2006 11:54 PM
| I even recovered some of my old walls with scantily clad babes. |
i just hope you got them off the misses drive before she saw them
starkers
Reply #6 Friday, November 24, 2006 8:53 AM
Nope, she seen ' em.....not to worry tho, I extricated myself by saying that I had bought the drive second-hand and they must be someone elses dirty pics.
BTW, they weren't actually pics of scantily clad babes, as such, but artwork wallpapers depicting women in various (non-sexual) fantasy settings....
Wouldn't wanna keep pics of actual nekkid or near nekkid women, anyhow....the missus might get the idea I'm 'interested' n' wanna drag me away from my puter...Wincustomize.
And I'm not having any of that
Reply #6 Friday, November 24, 2006 8:53 AM
| i just hope you got them off the misses drive before she saw them |
Nope, she seen ' em.....not to worry tho, I extricated myself by saying that I had bought the drive second-hand and they must be someone elses dirty pics.
BTW, they weren't actually pics of scantily clad babes, as such, but artwork wallpapers depicting women in various (non-sexual) fantasy settings....
Wouldn't wanna keep pics of actual nekkid or near nekkid women, anyhow....the missus might get the idea I'm 'interested' n' wanna drag me away from my puter...Wincustomize.
And I'm not having any of that
XX
Reply #7 Sunday, November 26, 2006 4:21 PM
Reply #7 Sunday, November 26, 2006 4:21 PM
I remember when my brand new 850 MB HD (which were huge then!) that died only few months later.
What pissed me off is that it disappeared and company (WD) refused to send me new one. It's still in void somewhere. I still wonder what happened to it.
What pissed me off is that it disappeared and company (WD) refused to send me new one. It's still in void somewhere. I still wonder what happened to it.
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Reply #1 Tuesday, November 21, 2006 10:35 PM
Next they proceeded to remove the HD to place it in another machine so as to access and transfer the data contained therein. Big mistake was the other laptop had facility for only one HD, thus they removed the OS & MBR, etc...then wondered why it wouldn't boot up.
Problem was eventually resolved by surveyor's 11 yo son, who somehow connected the HD to an external drive connected to his PC, then transferred the data via his PC to his dad's brand spanking new laptop...which one would imagine'll never, ever get left in a hot FWD again.