1 TB dead! Waaaah!

[miriam_e]

One of my 1 terabyte drives has suddenly, inexplicably died. Waaah! I bought it less than a year ago and it was almost full. Some of it was backed up, but much wasn't -- how do you backup a 1TB drive? The only way is with a second 1TB drive, and I didn't think I could afford to splash out on another drive merely as backup for my most recent drive. The disk itself is under warranty, but the data is the most valuable part.

Crap. Crap. Crap!

I'd been getting creepy, uneasy feelings about my oldest drive -- a now-ancient 120GB drive almost 7 years old, and was trying to gather the funds to buy a backup drive to safeguard the data on it. Who would have thought that my youngest drive would be the first to die. :(

Dammit!

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My machine doesn't even see the drive, even at the lowest level in the BIOS. [sigh]

Next time I go in to town I'll take the drive in to the shop where I bought it and see if it shows up on any of their machines. I don't think it will though. I'm not admitting total defeat yet however. Last option will be to try taking the little circuit board off the drive and swapping over another from an identical drive I have that still works. That is a scary, final, desperate act though.

I've used Linux to retrieve data from friends' MSWindows machines for them. Linux is marvelous for that, particularly Puppy Linux, because you can boot a Windows system into Puppy from an ordinary CD, or a thumbdrive and have a full, easy-to-use windowing operating system available to look through drives, and burn CDs or DVDs, or copy stuff to flash drives, or external hard drives.