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    Default My External Just Got Corrupted!

    EVERYONE THIS IS A WARNING to back up your music x2 because my external 1tb hard drive has just been corrupted and i cant copy, paste, open any of my files...

    everyone plz back up yo shit cuz i just lost a shitload of music, porn, videos, collections of stuff

    all the money gone lol... FML, OMG, SMH!!!

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    I'm in the IT industry. Sometimes I'll ask an end user what the most important part of their computer is. Usually they answer something like, "Oh hummm, I don't know. The RAM? The processor?"

    Nope, it's the hard drive!

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    I remember the afternoon before one of my first gigs (frat/sorority party in college) my 1tb powered external hard drive that had all my music started having the click of death soon after I plugged it in and it would start going click click click then become unreadable.

    I had heard of the freezer trick where you leave the hard drive in the freezer and it fixes it. Well after doing that it worked for like 10 minutes then would click and die again during the transfer once it started heating up. So my solution was to put the whole thing in a plastic bag and dump it in a bowl of ice then put it all in the freezer and run the power cord and usb cable out to my computer where I was able to successfully able to transfer all my music in time.

    So I guess what I'm trying to say is if it is clicking there is still hope.

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    the hard drive sounds fine, no weird noises, it powers up, windows detects it but i guess as i was dragging files over, it suddenly froze and i had no choice but to shutdown the computer because it was freezing, and i guess that scrwed everything up

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    What is a good external hard drive to buy?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bl4ck3n3D View Post
    What is a good external hard drive to buy?
    yes i would also like to know....I had a seagate

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    +1 jester backs his files up every week
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    Probably won't help but try mounting it on a different computer and os. I thought I had lost the last 2 years of music purchases and photos but after some messing around with different computers and recovery programs I managed to copy over most of the data. (And then I bought some external hard drives and made backups!)
    "Art is what you can get away with." - Marshall McLuhan

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    +lots!.... always have backups, and always one AND cd's with you to a gig you never know!!
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    Default My External Just Got Corrupted!

    This is why you need an NAS filled with SSDs.

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