This is really messed up. One of my hard drives, a 500GB Western Digital has just died on me. The drive was full with only around 8GB of free space. It had a ton of movies, tv shows and my iTunes library. Now its fucking dead, just like that out of the blue.
Now what? Thats what I have been asking myself for the past few minutes. Do I get another hard drive and go through the painstaking task of re-downloading all the movies and shows? Where do I begin? I don’t even know what movies and shows I even had on this drive. I’ve been asking myself for a long time now why I am building a large database of shows and movies and why I don’t delete them when I am done with them. I never have a proper answer. What about the other shows and movies I have on other drives, do I just delete them as well and say fuck it to all this?
I didn’t back up my data because it wasn’t important data. The only thing I do have backed up are my MP3s but thats because they are all legally ripped from my CD’s or purchased digitally online. I backed them up because I did not want to go through the painstaking task of ripping my CDs all over again one by one. My movies and TV shows are illegally downloaded and they are just too huge to back up anyway coming in at over 1.5TB. I don’t know what I will do, its a shock. I guess I will just get another drive and just continue from where I stopped.
28 replies on “Ticking sound”
looks like your bad luck has followed you all the way from paris…
Mark check my old topic.. remember..
https://248am.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2674
“Data Rescue II”
https://www.prosoftengineering.com/products/data_rescue.php
it saved my life..
P.S.: i can burn a copy for you.. let me know..
steve_leb, the drive is dead. its not even mounting onto my computer.
mine wasn’t mounting.. did you read my topic.. i had the exact same problem..
yeah i did thats why i am going to by trying it out myself later tonight but i am not putting my hopes up.
I got the ticking sound about a month ago. Backed up everything. Fingers crossed though, it’s still going strong. I am expected it to die on me though.
My father always says about stuff stored in the storage room “If you don’t use it for a whole year, it’s most likely you will never use it gain!”.. and I think that can be applied to old data too 🙂
For freely downloaded stuff at least, if you don’t use/watch it for a year or so then it is most likely you will not be watching it anytime soon. Even if you felt like watching one of the old movies or shows you can always download it again.. or buy it since you like it that much.
Personally, I don’t backup any downloaded movies/software. I just watch/use them once then delete them. If a movie is worth it then I burn it on a DVD.. but that rarely happens 🙂
Mark, sometimes these brands of hard drives carry a warranty. Does yours?
Sad memories, Mark, you reminds me of my 1TB WD HD, i was just like you, collecting all movies, series, i just move without even get the time to watch them, that was happens when you have T1 connection based in your house.
Believe me, its just hard to began all this, now as soon as i watch a movie, i delete it, i mean you can get it again with no time, 120 minutes approx, its way better than have the pain to gain all this files, then all this come and happens to you again, as for the shows do the same, just leave the last episode from the last season, and when the new season starts watch the last episode from the previous season then go on, (most cases they do a premier episode featuring the most desirable moments).
You seriously don’t want to get through all that again.
Well as for MP3’s, if this could help, i have almost 120 GB of Music, they are either “(V0) VBR (My Old CD Rips)” or “320 CBR (Very Old or Newly Ripped)”.
Rarely you can find anything 192 CBR (digital download).
And i’m very careful about transcoding.
let me know, so i can make a list and email it to you.
When digital drives with massive memory costs you peanuts, what’s the point of deleting the stuff?
I dont delete any of my stuff and i’ve been downloading stuff since 1997.
I don’t mind losing my videos/movies .. I have already watched them. I do have an issue losing music tho.
Buy a 1tb external from Hawalli and come over, I can have it filled in a couple hours.
I have used Ontrack Data Recovery on a couple of occasions. Cost me an arm and a leg (north of $1k) but they recovered everything. Now I back up everything.
my WD HD has a scratching sound when i boot it up or shut it down i dont think its normal as it died on me 2 times… so i just put it down on the other side of it and its working now heheheheeh 🙂 try it out u have nothing to lose
Try putting in the freezer and plugging it. it usually works (google for more info)
This why i only buy Seagate & Hitachi the rest is shit.
Kind of off topic…but I would like to suggest that you require your advertisers to create new banners after a certain amount of time has past. The one at the top has been the same for so long its kind of getting annoying. Just a suggestion feel free to ignore it if its not feasable.
Nice lesson for pirating :>
Nouf,
I don’t think he cares whats up there as long as he’s being paid.
Mark, I bought a HD from Hawalli three years ago. After less than 2 years it crashed with priceless photos that I did not have backed up). However, it had a warranty by manufacturer WD and I called their 1800 number and they replaced it for free. Try to go the the manufacturers website, they usually have online form to fill out or they can tell you how to get RMA. Good luck
Nouf as Page said its up to the advertisers. When they sign up my recommendation is to change the banners every month but its up to them to actually decide to do it. Most of the time its not feasible for them.
I experienced the same issue (ticking sound/access error messages) with my 2TB Laice Bigger Disk. All I had to do was replace the power adapter and my problem was solved. It happened to me twice. Since then I always kept a couple of extra power adapters. You might wanna change your power cord too (I guess it was the reason my adapter got screwed in the first place).
Good Luck!
If the movies are illegally downloaded, GET OVER IT! It is like crying over spilled milk that you STOLE from the market.
AHHHH BEAN THERE DONE THAT,I HAD A WESTERN DIGITAL ‘MY BOOK” AND IT CRASHED ON ME AFTER SAVING TONS OF TV SHOWS AND MOVIES ON IT, I THEN GOT FURIOUS AND GOT THE ROLLS ROYCE OF HARD DRIVES…LACIE. I HAVE UP TO 4.5TB OF MOVIES AND TV SHOWS SO FAR AND NEVER WILL IT CRASH …ID ADVISE U 2 GET A LACIE.
i burn every thing on a dvds. i dont keep any on my hard drive . dvds are cheat . you get 50 for 4.5 kd and that will carry about 250 GB. i think thats good . and i use numbering and some software to know where every thing is . i thing of my download as money . cause its bandwidth wasted and time consumed .
You can open up the drive (if you don’t mind blowing your warranty). If you heard clicking/scratching sounds it means the hardware is screwed. Find an old HD that’s physically the same size as your busted one. Open up the busted one, transplant the ‘discs’ you find in there to the old HD. Make sure the head is not quite touching the ‘discs’ and are correctly placed. Viola you have a working HD!
WD sucks. I lost a bunch of things too, but had them backed up.
My advice, get a generic 2TB drive and mirror it. Also give it extra ventilation.
Well I only use Maxtor and WD drives. I have had a lot of issues with Hitatchi and Lacie drives before so thats why I stopped using them.
just pay double the price and get IBM habiby.
Well, I am glad you mentioned this. Because I have the same external hard drive and have been nervously thinking about and starting to back it up to discs – and I have the same dilemma you do about backing up my itunes and the TV shows. So I am in the process of backing up all my music and the various documentaries or shows I dont want to lose. I guess if it’s lost, it’s lost and you have to just let it go with the wind, especially if you have already seen and enjoyed it all.
My problem is that I am an obsessive archiver and pack-rat with everything. But I know I would feel so much freer without all the stuff- even the gigbytes of data lying around over the four external hard drives I have.
Maxtor is quite good actually. And my portable external is a LaCie, so far it’s doing fine *knocks wood*.
By the way, here’s a head’s up for everyone. Currently the 120GB HDD’s provided for laptops (SATA/IDE) have issues. It seems the issues are exclusively with Dell laptop (especially the D series), so far I have had 3 out of 5 people who upgraded from 80 to 120GB come back to me with complaints of crashes & system errors. Turned out the HDDs are faulty, must’ve been a bad batch that landed in Q8.