dead hard drive

Ouch · Post by **Ouch** » Thu Jun 21, 2007 7:09 am

ok. while this P O S is working i gotta ask.. whats with my hard drives going bust ? this will be the 3rd hard drive in under a year....i have had it looked at everytime it starts to go wonkers on me and thats the problem (so i been told).. hard drive is about to die..?? wtf? this is starting to drive <ha ha me nuts..well i;m gonna get a new one "again", formate and install all the TWL files . again... blah... hope to be on this weekend with a half way decent running computer..not fast as i cant afford an upgrade but atleast i;ll be killin..errr i mean getting killed .

TMT MEDAL OF HONOR MODDING · Post by **ViPER** » Thu Jun 21, 2007 10:42 am

I use to b/u on 2 hard drives - (over 150 MB) and both died at the same tme. It's ok to use a hard drive, I still do - but i only fire it up once a week now to save to it and i dont leave it running ever (to extend its life). In addition, I b/u all critical files - like family pictures - my source map files - important documents - and original mods all saved onto CD.

CD is the safest media you can b/u to.

Ouch · Post by **Ouch** » Thu Jun 21, 2007 2:33 pm

yeah i tried that.. my dam dvd drive and my burner are not being read

man o man... sure as heck gonna make afew back up copies when i get this running smothly again... oh well just been one of those weeks...lol :pc:

Moving Target · Post by **Moving Target** » Thu Jun 21, 2007 4:26 pm

Gotta love technology!

Jimmy · Post by **Jimmy** » Thu Jun 21, 2007 6:44 pm

Ouch, it sounds like you need to break the piggy bank and have one built :pc:

Private_Lapdance · Post by **Private_Lapdance** » Wed Jun 27, 2007 12:04 pm

Ouch, I would like to help. This HDD failure thing is the symptom not the disease. I need more detailed info though.
please provide the following:
1 Operating system.
2 are you running any "Virtual drive" software such as Dameon tools or Alchohol 120?
3 please describe your computer, things such as make and model or the motherboard itsself so ican determine the controllers it uses.

Ouch · Post by **Ouch** » Wed Jun 27, 2007 3:51 pm

well it's a pos to start with...lol.. lets see if i can answer your questions .. i do have those two programs on my computer but i do not use them.. rusty put them on here awhile back to get a racing game to run. i have no idea how they work.. my mother board is a...gotta crawl under the desk... "gigabyte" ga-7vt600< mother board number...os = windows xp pro. 1 gig of ram.. geesh i dont kno if it;s ddr or what, 2 gig chip... vid card is a "ati radeon 9550 "256 megs" agp....the hard drive it;s self is a.... sec gotta look at that thing..30 gig maxtor...
i only have spearhead and flatout 2 on my system.. i dont do downloads of stuff "muzic.,games, videos.. nothing like that...sports pages and ebay thats about it.. and no one uses my computer .. so i'm kinda at a loss....as jimmy says i guess i;ll just go get a new one.. but i really dont need anything better then what i have .. spearhead and my racing game run fine...