fuckity fuck fuck

[absolutedestiny]

There's nothing I hate more than losing data.

I just lost all the data on a 60gig drive due to my hardware RAID fucking up. It wasn't actually RAIDed, I was just using the RAID for extra IDE channels, but it well and truly died.

I haven't quite realised yet the amount of data I've probably lost, but I do know one thing... I lost ALL my music. Every single last mp3 and ogg file was on that drive. That fact alone is pretty much killing me right now.

Boy am I depressed.

The drive itself is actually fine, it's just the corruption killed indexes etc and now it's just showing as an unformatted disc.

I'm just waiting now for the penny to drop as to what really important data I've lost.

Comments

[spaglet.livejournal.com]

Oh fsck.

*HUG++*

I've lost data a few times, though not quite on that scale - and it's taught me nothing except backup, backup, backup and backup again. CD-Rs are cheap. ^^;;

Here's to the non-existent next time...

If it helps...

[bigbigtruck.livejournal.com]

I'll burn you a CD full of MP3s, if you want.

[supersapien.livejournal.com]

EXACT same thing happened to me. I mean, to the letter, except it happened to both my hard drives at the same time, one 30 gig and one 80 gig. All 1200 or 1300 mp3's gone (better not happen now that I have twice that amount), all my videods, anime, AMV work... I know how it is. I was actually in denial for a month until I realized there really was no getting back that data. I felt like I lost a part of myself. I spend too much time on the computer. :p

Anyway, I know how you feel. What I did afterwards was I wrote down as many artists as I could remember and started re-downloading the music, and once I had the music, the rest wasn't as big a loss as you would think. If anything, it provides a nice opportunity to clean your HDD's up a bit and have all the crap you sorta-used-but-really-didn't be trashed.