Well ****.

[quote=B-Wong]So I have 2 Hard Drives, an external and an internal one. I put a LOT of my stuff on my external just because I already had most of the stuff on that before I had gotten this internal Hard Drive. Well that fucking piece of shit started crashing and now I'm missing ~1100 songs and 500 pictures. Everything else I really could care less about because I can always redownload things. Fuuuck. Anyone have any suggestions on how to fix a crashed hard drive or am I actually fucked? <3 Also: Back up your files n' shit.[/quote]

[quote=Searz]Use RAID to avoid shit like this :P (it's basically real-time backup, but without slowing shit down) I've heard a computer fixing guy I know say that you might be able to get the HDD to work again for a short time if you put it in the freezer. I got no idea of why, but it's certainly worth a shot.[/quote]

[quote=B-Wong][quote=Searz] Use RAID to avoid shit like this :P (it's basically real-time backup, but without slowing shit down) I've heard a computer fixing guy I know say that you might be able to get the HDD to work again for a short time if you put it in the freezer. I got no idea of why, but it's certainly worth a shot. [/quote] Yea i tried that already, didn't seem to work. Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu I need me a safe full of Hard Drives, I think that'd be pretty cool.[/quote]

[quote=AFKwithyoursister][quote=B-Wong] Yea i tried that already, didn't seem to work. Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu I need me a safe full of Hard Drives, I think that'd be pretty cool. [/quote] Freezer full of hard drives.[/quote]

[quote=Nighthawk]Be happy your external hardrive stopped working and not your main one. I got a new hardrive and lost all my shit, 4k songs, 500 pictures, all my sigs, etc etc. You can try and repair it if it's not fucked up completely, costs about $50 if that's all they have to do (least where I live).[/quote]

[quote=princessmisery]Ok well I don't know what you mean by "crashed". What is it doing? There are several great pieces of software to help repair and recover things on HDD's. Look 'em up, hun. Not to mention it's great that it's an external because you can direct and fix through your PC. It would royally suck harder if it was your one and only main drive on your PC. lol[/quote]

[quote=B-Wong]I mean everytime the thing tries to start up, it crashes on itself. Looked up as much stuff as I could but couldn't recover it. But all I really was looking for was my songs and I found a way to rip songs from my iPod back to my pc, so I'm pretty happy about that. But still lost quite a few pictures and some videos, etc.[/quote]

[quote=orochinagi]That's one of the reasons i'm considering buying a NAS... This one caught my eye: http://www.amazon.co.uk/QNAP-TS-412-Marvell-1-2GHz-built/dp/B004LOCFUY/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=computers&qid=1309795954&sr=8-1[/quote]