it all started when I got crismass speeding ticket for 59km/h when i was doing 45km/h.

and my hard drive just crashed with all of my invetion patening writeups and code stuff on.

I think im being punshed.

any one else having a wonderfull week end?

Thats interesting, my part time job is as a cop and I gave a speeding ticket to some moron for 59km/h when he was only doing 45km/h.

Later I went to his house and kicked his hard drive ensuring that it would be corrupted later on.

A swell weekend!

Just buy a couple of 16gb pendrives and an extra hard drive.

Still going to the hospital.

I am going to try and take it in to a recovery place as soon as i get to take a trip to the usa there are no place like that over here where i live.

I just had a big cockroach (2 inches long) walk up my leg. I thought it was the cat's tail, but the cat was nowhere to be seen. Hunted the little vermin everywhere until I killed it. Week starts awful, however today is day off so it averages

Only with a retarded controller. The moment ANY drive on a mirror set is seen as bad it'll be dropped and the next drive will be used. It WILL NOT mirror bad data in most cases (it has to be a really broken or really stupid mirror).

IIRC you were the one that saw that issue with a so called "mirror" server corrupting the master right? It wasn't a mirror, it was a slave, which isn't FOR doing proper data redundancy, only managing uptime.

How does the mirror know? If I delete a file on the main drive, the second drive COPIES that change. Now the file is gone forever. It's not a backup solution. I can't say, give me the version of file x from yesterday, or what did my disk look like two weeks ago. It's only there to detect if a drive is physically damaged or corrupted.

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The big ones will come in your house and lay eggs, call an exterminator, get them taken care of from your yard ASAP.

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I'm not talking about a drive going bad, I'm talking about the data going bad.

You need to burn backups and store them off site. No matter how fancy a RAID you have or whatever, a burglar, flood or fire (or even the Great Power Spike from a thunderstorm) makes it all worthless.

Only if one of the hard drives goes bad. If I get a virus that goes in and scrambles my partition tables, the raid controller will mirror that. If I run a program that modifies or deletes my files, the raid controller will mirror that. If I click delete will the wrong file selected, the controller will mirror that. It does not get an error.

Correction, someone, or something wrote bad data. I'm a programmer, I don't get things right on the first try. Sometimes I fuck things up while working on a solution. Or in the event that other people use my computer, sometimes they fuck things up. Bottom line is, fault doesn't matter here, what matters is, you want your data back.

Yes, it's a redundancy solution allowing for maximum uptime, not data protection. You use hot-swap raid if you're running a low-downtime server. Differential backups are better for home users. If, in the very rare event, a drive goes bad, you're covered, just like as if you had raid mirroring. It might take a couple of hours, but how often does that happen. However, if in the MUCH MORE LIKELY event you fubar your own data (this happens to me much more often than hard drives dying as discussed above), you are only covered via backups, RAID will not help you here.

edit: And even if you are running a raid 10 low-downtime production server, you still make differential backups (I've never worked in an environment where the servers wern't backed up in some form or another, even if they were raid-infinity-hd-with-special-feature-x).

this place seem to be resonable 500- 2500

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOP9mnPyRPc&NR=1.

im going to see if i can get a cheep flight on the week end

If you have a working PC then there are some data recovery apps you can get that work totally free... I can't remember where I got it or what it was called, but I used it with success on an old FAT32 drive. Not sure about NTFS drives, but just google something like 'FAT recovery free' or 'NTFS recovery free' etc... Some so called 'FREE' applications have limitations so watch out for those. Some apps want you to pay according to the size of the recovered data which to me is a scam so watch out...

Some of the applications still work without a drive letter... If the drive shows up under Control Panel->Computer Management->Storage->Disk Management then the software may still work... The software I used worked even after the drive had been formatted and re-used, but the file names and dates were not there as both the FAT and boot sector were all gone... Something wiped the first 80 or so sectors but I got the files back I just had to go through and rename the ones I wanted

If it doesn't show up under disk management then swap cables, try different settings like slave/master or ide0/ide1 and chip select... I've had drives fail when the CS option is used and then suddenly come back after switching to MASTER/SLAVE.

It could also be a fuse on the drive circuit board if it failed completely, but you probably wouldn't be able to fix that yourself. I usually get dangerous and bypass a fuse with a thin wire just to test, and if it doesn't burn out then I bypass it to get the data. Probably not safe, but it worked...