HardDrive Goes Bang, Back soon'ish

[Darkmiss]

Well last night my harddrive decided to corrupt beyond repair.
and is now sitting on my table in bits (after hitting it witha baseball bat a few hundred times)

Luckily I backed up everything a few days earlyer

But I have no idea when ill be able to afford a new one
So ill be back when I can, so for now ill visit a few times when i can, with my frinds machine.

Im really missing Celestia already.

[ElPelado]

my disk is also bad. i have to change it, maybe next week. and then i'll put win xp.

[t00fri]

Well last night my harddrive decided to corrupt beyond repair.
and is now sitting on my table in bits (after hitting it witha baseball bat a few hundred times)

Luckily I backed up everything a few days earlyer

But I have no idea when ill be able to afford a new one
So ill be back when I can, so for now ill visit a few times when i can, with my frinds machine.

Im really missing Celestia already.

A number of hard disk producers offer a neat piece of software to their customers that involves "fuzzy logics". You let it scan your hd within reasonable time intervals and the tool tells you when your hd is about to crash!

It's really no joke. The software can also notice slight displacements in the alignments or also if something is wrong with the disk's bearings etc. Of course it compares all these data with the logged previous runs...

These tools are also handy when you want to claim a replacement disk during warranty time.

I used these tools already to my great advantage;-)

Bye Fridger

[Darkmiss]

Hey... well im back up and runnig again, sort of.
still lots to install and configure.

Got a brand new Super fast, 40gig hard drive
luckilly my 80gig D: drive was unafected. ( had Celestia on it )

[-Shadow-]

I have a Quantum Fireball CX20.4A rive 20 gig, it's never failed me before. Too bad they don't make them anymore, atleast since Maxtor bought them out
I'm getting a new one soon since i have hardly any space left on it.

[Don. Edwards]

-Shadow-
Those Quantum hard drives are still being made. Just under the Maxtor brand. If you hold a real Maxtor drive next to a Quantum drive they look very different. Now if you hold some of the newer Maxtor drives along side a Quantum drive, guess what they look the same. So if you know what a Quantum drive looks like and you go shopping for a Maxtor drive just look for one that looks just like the Quantum drive did. You will end up with a Quantum drive. Maxtor bought Quantum because there drives were made better and I can tell you there appears to be no difference between a true Quantum and a Maxtor branded one. Just a little info when you go looking. Now my favorite brand hard drive is Seagate. The Barracuda line is very good and very reliable.

Don.

[Darkmiss]

Both my drives are Maxtor's, and so was the one that failed,

[-Shadow-]

I know that they still make them, Maxtor bought the Quantum Harddrive not the company. I'm saying IMHO Maxtor doesn't make them with the same care that Quantum did. I didn't mean they don't make them anymore, I just mean they're not the same anymore
Sorry for not wording my post properly, I tend to do that when I'm tired, or when I'm just thinking alot about something. I have 6 Barracuda's in my basement They never failed either but, They're only 2 and 4 gig harddrives. They're pretty old I had them about 5 or 6 years ago.
Most people throw out they're old hardrives but sometimes they're still fixable. So my dad just fixes one for me. I won't be buying any Harddrives in the near future because i have to save up $2500 for a Guitar lukily I'll get a hundred or two for my Birthday which is soon.
So, I won't be spending over a 100 dollars for a Harddrive. As I said my dad will just give me a fixed fully functional one and I won't have to spend any money.

-Shadow

[brunetto_64]

grrr... my ram and my first hd make me very baaaad...
but in september I will upgrade the motherboard, the O.S. (From W98 to W2000 or XP) and I
will take 1 GB of ram ddr...It's very bad work with
hd full...but I don't want to format...bat my patience
is at limit... sorry for my english...

[ElPelado]

I'm BACK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
with a new HD and a new OS, I changed from Win98 to Win XP. I'm trying to get used to it. I will install celestia and then I will try the ctrl+ins command.
goos to be here again, after almosta week!

[-Shadow-]

ElPelado For XP are you using the Default toolbar colours?
Goto Display Properties ( Desktop>Rightclick>Properties ) and Select Appearence. Change the Colour Scheme to Silver, or Olive Green.
Silver's the Best IMO. Anyway I'm getting a New SeaGate barracuda 80 gig drive soon to replace my 20 gig Quantum Fireball CX20.4A, So I'm Happy

- Shadow

[ElPelado]

at first i was using the XP design. but now i'm back with the old style. its easyer for me, and i'm used to it.
my HD has 40Gb.

[Darkmiss]

Oooh standard windows look is just not for me, anymore
here is what my desktop looks like now, (except for a better wallpaper)

[-Shadow-]

*Start's drooling*
Where'd you get the cool colour Scheme?

[Darkmiss]

Its a replacement XP theme from http://www.themexp.org
But you need to patch Windows XP to run extra themes

you can find this small patch on my web site

[billybob884]

*Start's drooling*
Where'd you get the cool colour Scheme?

And will it work for for Win ME or just XP?

[-Shadow-]

Just XP, I've downloaded atleast 5 colour themes, 1 logon, and 1 boot.
Thank's for the links that's a sweet site

- Shadow