January 13th, 2010 / 3:41 pm
Snippets

Just a friendly reminder to backup your stuff; the computer is okay now, but it was frozen and making the weirdest clicking sounds just a few minutes ago.

22 Comments

  1. Sean
  2. Sean
  3. mjm

      Ryan, get a new hard drive. Clicking indicates a hard drive is exceeding its parameters. Not exceeding space. This means the hard drive is not healthy. Soon, you will have to replace it. If you wish to further its longevity, you can have an external hard drive and begin running your OS off of the external. Using the internal for only minor file storage. Or you can invest in a solid state hard drive, where it has no parts and therefore has less of a chance of becoming a clicking alien from Signs.

  4. mjm

      Ryan, get a new hard drive. Clicking indicates a hard drive is exceeding its parameters. Not exceeding space. This means the hard drive is not healthy. Soon, you will have to replace it. If you wish to further its longevity, you can have an external hard drive and begin running your OS off of the external. Using the internal for only minor file storage. Or you can invest in a solid state hard drive, where it has no parts and therefore has less of a chance of becoming a clicking alien from Signs.

  5. drew kalbach

      my laptop died over the summer and i lost around 200-ish poems, maybe more actually, mostly old, because i was extremely lazy about backing my files up. but that got me in the habit of e-mailing all of my poems to my gmail account with the subject ‘archive’ for easy retrieval. so now even if my computer dies, all of my writing is stored in my gmail account. hooray internet.

  6. drew kalbach

      my laptop died over the summer and i lost around 200-ish poems, maybe more actually, mostly old, because i was extremely lazy about backing my files up. but that got me in the habit of e-mailing all of my poems to my gmail account with the subject ‘archive’ for easy retrieval. so now even if my computer dies, all of my writing is stored in my gmail account. hooray internet.

  7. jereme

      yeah you should check out google docs.

      i am always curious to hear what the actual issue is when people say “my computer died”.

      the majority of the time the computer crash is not related to the hard drive and I can pull the files off of it.

      don’t throw away those dead h/d’s, your work may be locked away inside of them.

  8. jereme

      yeah you should check out google docs.

      i am always curious to hear what the actual issue is when people say “my computer died”.

      the majority of the time the computer crash is not related to the hard drive and I can pull the files off of it.

      don’t throw away those dead h/d’s, your work may be locked away inside of them.

  9. drew kalbach

      yeah it is, the flash didn’t die. it was an eeepc with linux and i was screwing around with the package manager and somehow screwed it up to the point where it wouldn’t boot. i know that’s vague, i don’t remember anymore exactly what i did. so i took it to a local computer place, since it was beyond my ability to repair, and they couldn’t fix it or pull my filesoff. so my stuff is on there, locked on its little flash drive somewhere.

      anyway at this point it’s just a hassle to fix since i didn’t really lose anything important. or at least not entire projects.

  10. drew kalbach

      yeah it is, the flash didn’t die. it was an eeepc with linux and i was screwing around with the package manager and somehow screwed it up to the point where it wouldn’t boot. i know that’s vague, i don’t remember anymore exactly what i did. so i took it to a local computer place, since it was beyond my ability to repair, and they couldn’t fix it or pull my filesoff. so my stuff is on there, locked on its little flash drive somewhere.

      anyway at this point it’s just a hassle to fix since i didn’t really lose anything important. or at least not entire projects.

  11. Paul

      wow. that really sucks.

  12. Paul

      wow. that really sucks.

  13. mjm

      which version/distribution of linux?

  14. mjm

      which version/distribution of linux?

  15. Lily Hoang

      going to buy myself an external hard drive right now

  16. Lily Hoang

      going to buy myself an external hard drive right now

  17. jereme

      well i haven’t really used linux since the mid 90’s but i doubt the fundamentals have changed much.

      taking it to a local person is probably a bad idea unless he/she has specific experience with linux.

      linux uses a proprietary file system, a file system that cannot be read by Windows. it will look like the drive is bad at cursory glance.

      it might just be his ignorance. it might not.

      which is why i always tell people not to throw away their drives if they have work that’s been “lost” on them.

  18. jereme

      well i haven’t really used linux since the mid 90’s but i doubt the fundamentals have changed much.

      taking it to a local person is probably a bad idea unless he/she has specific experience with linux.

      linux uses a proprietary file system, a file system that cannot be read by Windows. it will look like the drive is bad at cursory glance.

      it might just be his ignorance. it might not.

      which is why i always tell people not to throw away their drives if they have work that’s been “lost” on them.

  19. jereme

      external h/d’s can die, get stolen, etc. just like a “normal” drive.

      using online backup would be more effective. google docs or even just paying 20 bucks a month for a ftp account and housing a copy of everything there.

      the internet doesn’t accidentally delete work, get stolen or blue screen/crash half way through a huge document.

  20. jereme

      external h/d’s can die, get stolen, etc. just like a “normal” drive.

      using online backup would be more effective. google docs or even just paying 20 bucks a month for a ftp account and housing a copy of everything there.

      the internet doesn’t accidentally delete work, get stolen or blue screen/crash half way through a huge document.

  21. Ryan Call

      i took today to bak up things through dropbox. its nit much but its something. ill take care of computer ‘later’

  22. Ryan Call

      i took today to bak up things through dropbox. its nit much but its something. ill take care of computer ‘later’