Just a piece of advice ...
I had one of my HDs freak out last night. First I had a random reboot while peacefully browsing some forums. Got kinda confused about that, but started up again. Windows had to scan my I:\ for inconsistency when I started again, which I found kinda surprising too since I hadn't touched that partition (where I have my programming stuff) in an hour or two. Back into Windows again it didn't take long until the same thing happened again. Started winamp, and *blip* and I'm back at the BIOS screen again. As it reboots it scans I:\ again, so I start to suspect some problem. After the reboot I'm back in windows with no background picture, the computer being really slow, and unable to open browse files on any drive. So I reboot myself, get into Linux and try to find out if it's just Windows that are screwing things up. So I go to the drive and type ls. Works. So I type ls -la. Hangs.
At this time I figure my HD is screwed. So I try to boot back into windows to see if I can recover any files. However, Windows wouldn't boot anymore with that HD connected. So I get back into Linux. I could still access the drive there, though occasionally it hits a file that will just hang the console and make the HD make odd sounds. But at least I could access the files. Now I have spent pretty much the whole day trying to recover files from that drive. The good news is that most files are safe on another HD now, only a few files that wasn't very important got lost.
I always have all my demos and stuff on my server, so that's safe anyway, but the work done since the last update could have been lost, and which just happened to be a lot of work this time. Fortunately, the framework is safe. Lost an old demo I never released though, but it was only half done and hardly working anyway, so that doesn't matter. I had some 40+ gigs of downloaded files on that HD that could have been lost too. Lost some, but nothing very important. Could have lost the sum of most of my schoolwork from all the years at uni. But that's fortunately safe too.
Not sure if the HD is broken hardwarewise, or if it's just the file system that's broken or maybe the surface damaged at some spots. But it kinda feels like a hardware problem. Especially since both partitions were affected.
I had one of my HDs freak out last night. First I had a random reboot while peacefully browsing some forums. Got kinda confused about that, but started up again. Windows had to scan my I:\ for inconsistency when I started again, which I found kinda surprising too since I hadn't touched that partition (where I have my programming stuff) in an hour or two. Back into Windows again it didn't take long until the same thing happened again. Started winamp, and *blip* and I'm back at the BIOS screen again. As it reboots it scans I:\ again, so I start to suspect some problem. After the reboot I'm back in windows with no background picture, the computer being really slow, and unable to open browse files on any drive. So I reboot myself, get into Linux and try to find out if it's just Windows that are screwing things up. So I go to the drive and type ls. Works. So I type ls -la. Hangs.
At this time I figure my HD is screwed. So I try to boot back into windows to see if I can recover any files. However, Windows wouldn't boot anymore with that HD connected. So I get back into Linux. I could still access the drive there, though occasionally it hits a file that will just hang the console and make the HD make odd sounds. But at least I could access the files. Now I have spent pretty much the whole day trying to recover files from that drive. The good news is that most files are safe on another HD now, only a few files that wasn't very important got lost.
I always have all my demos and stuff on my server, so that's safe anyway, but the work done since the last update could have been lost, and which just happened to be a lot of work this time. Fortunately, the framework is safe. Lost an old demo I never released though, but it was only half done and hardly working anyway, so that doesn't matter. I had some 40+ gigs of downloaded files on that HD that could have been lost too. Lost some, but nothing very important. Could have lost the sum of most of my schoolwork from all the years at uni. But that's fortunately safe too.
Not sure if the HD is broken hardwarewise, or if it's just the file system that's broken or maybe the surface damaged at some spots. But it kinda feels like a hardware problem. Especially since both partitions were affected.
