BRILLIANT! Losing your external HD sucks.

So my external hard drive has decided to corrupt; lots of music, anime, manga, hentai and more - GONE.

I was converting the Hatsune Miku's 39 giving day concert into a file type that works on my iPod touch and that file decided to corrupt, which lead to the whole external hard drive corrupting. It is a 150GB WD external hard drive (small!)

Brilliant.

waaredit: wanted to open this up by asking other users how much they hate when this happens. Please tell us what you've lost when this happened to you.

My edit: Despite the external hard drive being corrupt and not being able to open, I have found a very handy program called GetDataBack that is able to go into the hard drive and enables you to copy from the hard drive itself onto/into wherever you want.

Click here for the torrent if you want to check it out. Keep in mind that you will have to either use the FAT or NTFS program depending on your internal hard drives. A link on that website links to more information on how to set it up.

What sucks even more is that I am transferring everything onto a memory stick (that is nowhere near enough memory for everything) and then onto another laptop (as mine is running of memory ~^-^~) until I get this 1TB hard drive. But it is letting me order my folders properly; something I have been meaning to do for a long time, just never got around to it.

My edit: So I turned my laptop on this morning and plugged in the external hard drive as the laptop was loading up, low and behold it asks to repair it. I didn't think it was going to work but I let it do it, and it does! So I wasted my time transferring things onto another laptop.

How much memory did all those take up? My WD Ex.HDD died and I had 300GB of movies, hentai, anime, manga, pictures, documents, etc.

Happened to me before too. My 1 TB hard drive, my mum dropped it hard. Tons of porn, hentai, anime, photos, all gone. And the drive couldn't even be rebooted, so now it's just used as a paperweight.

Ive had to emergency reformat my computer a few times before I had my external, lost tons of great porn that I will never find again.

Never had to me in the 15 yrs i had a computer... outside the family computer when i had to reformat because a worm ate run32.dll. But now im scared for my poor poor porn and manga... oh wait. BURN A COPY ON DVD OR BLURAY JUST IN CASE, your out 37 cents.

Well being as to how I feel with you youngsters obsession with Hatsune Miku This was probably for the best. Now you can listen to some better music.

Just bought a 2TB external and so far Transferred 300 gigs recently, not too much compared to most people here, but if I were to lose all of it. I would be depressed(pissed) for days.

I've lost plenty of material on those WD small hard drives, e.g. 500GB, 320GB, 75GB hard drives where they keep failing to boot up/connect. I really hate WD as they've been like a curse.

Back when I first started using external HD's, I got a virus and had to do a complete system restore. 32 gigs worth of hentai, visual novels, and music were all lost and I've never been able to get everything back, even now.

You have way to much porn then and no a spindle of 50 dual layer dvd is all i have to save my porn,anime, manga and doujin plus my backup of my three computers, not including my two 2tb hard drives. Blu ray burner 100 bucks external.

I descended my answer because i don't care to have a tech style argument on some i don't care about.

It's a very small external hard drive; only 150GB. I have been savouring the memory until I decide to buy a 1TB one - which will be now soon now because of this. I have many things I want fill it up with, I could easily have filled up that tiny hard drive at any time; I have a lot of things I want to put on one.

I have a small one.

I partitioned my internal harddrive so I can reformat the main one without losing any of my information.

I should get a second internal, I have room for it.

Lost 1 TB of stuff mainly anime, games, pron, etc. in one night. For some reason, I didn't really rage as hard as I should though. I guess its's coz i felt i can just dl it all again lol.

I'm no retard, foo'!

A few years back I had over 100 gigs of anime on my desktop and the motherboard crashed. We took it to futureshop. they replaced it and reformatted the hdd. I was pissed.

Now that my writing career is becoming semi-serious and I'm almost out of schoolz, I've paid for a Mozy account and store everything online. I got all my manuscripts and important stuff stored there, plus I put anything like manga or videos that I want to keep.

So I have to say I've never had this happen. The closest thats ever happened to me is copying something to a USB stick and taking it to a school only to find your files are incompatible with the school computers. That and closing a Word document without saving. Both are fixable though...

GetDataBack is definitely a good program to retrieve information on drives that are corrupt, apart from those physically damaged. Personally tried it and decided to support its developer.

I don't know whether to laugh mirthlessly or groan in annoyance.
When will you people learn? Don't keep your system and your data on the same partition!



Ah! A sane man at last.

Bottomline:

Get RAID. (Using RAID 5 now). Nowadays you have it easy as RAID-1 "firmware"-cards are darn cheap.

Thanks for sharing that. Now I won't convert things instantly to my external hard drive - I'd do it on my computer's hard drive then paste it to my external HD.

I'd hate to potentially lose 300GB of my files over that.