That sucks, I accidentally dropped one of my external hard drives while cleaning my desk and all my family pictures and memories I've collected along the way is on it. I think I might be able to recover it but the places that do it are so expensive. :(
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Weird thing, huh? My HDD died also yesterday, and I gave my respects for her 5 years of almost 24/7 service to me. :(
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what were you doing last time before this happened?
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I hope they have anything they want to keep backed up because it will happen, even with an SSD.
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SSD fails too, and in all cases SSD don't give any warning before it fails, it just fails, and if ssd fails there is much less chance to recover data than on HDD. HDD very often gives a warning when it starts failing if its up to moving parts, and you can recover most of data when it fails.
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If it's not detected and still spins you might be able to just replace the circuit board.
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I had a HDD die once. It had a few thousand pictures and videos on it that I did't have backed up. I don't take pictures anymore.
I know someone who was backing up there stuff not too long ago and the external HDD fell on the floor while it was running, everything gone.
If you really have anything you want to keep, you should have two backups of it just incase one fails.
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So, my HDD just died. It is not even detected.
Backup? Haha, yeah... I lost all my personal work and games.
Enjoy this moment with me and have a giveaway.Good news!
After some reboots, I managed to make the hard drive to be recognized by the system.
I was trying the ddrescue tool and Hakimodo came to my aid.
He realized that there were no errors in the partition I was trying to clone, then he helped me with smarter ways to salvage the data. :D
Other partition is really damaged. If I try to clone it or just copy data, after a while, it freezes the system and BIOS won't detect it.
The important thing is that I was able to recover my work, my porn and some of my games.
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