|
|
Post by Tech Warrior on Jul 7, 2011 1:57:16 GMT
I was heading to the kitchen to get something to eat, and I went to my laptop. I discovered some very bad news. My hard drive has died, and I didn't back anything up. Why? Because I was sure that it would stay alive for a long time.
How does this affect anything? *laughs* Well, you see, Constructor was on there, as well as all my custom levels, .maps, .difs, whatever.
This means that I have lost every single MBS and custom level I've ever made. It was very devastating, and I was very upset. Guess what this also means? I can't make custom levels anymore!
|
|
William
Advanced Marbler
Yep, that's me.[ss:Default Skin]
Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
Posts: 274
|
Post by William on Jul 7, 2011 2:05:28 GMT
*cries*
Sorry to hear, dude. I hope you can get the data off there somehow.
|
|
|
|
Post by Ian Cordle on Jul 7, 2011 2:31:02 GMT
Take it to a professional, you can get your data.
|
|
|
|
Post by Andrew on Jul 7, 2011 2:33:54 GMT
Ouch, that sucks.  I had that happen to me a few months ago, but unfortunately my hard drive was too degraded to be able to retrieve any data from it. I hope you have better luck.  |
|
|
|
Post by Tech Warrior on Jul 7, 2011 2:41:31 GMT
Take it to a professional, you can get your data. Yeah, for a ton of money! |
|
|
|
Post by admiralanonymous on Jul 7, 2011 3:59:07 GMT
Why does this mean you can't make levels anymore? Seems that if you bought a new hard drive (You'd have to anyway), you could just redownload constructor and start again? EDIT: Should have used the program I made, MB BackItUp to an external HDD  |
|
|
|
Post by Tech Warrior on Jul 7, 2011 4:04:03 GMT
I can't make levels anymore because my laptop is the only comp I have that can run Constructor... And I don't have money for a new hard drive. I've got a few old ones I can try out, but it will still mean that I've lost all my data.
|
|
|
|
Post by Perishingflames on Jul 7, 2011 4:23:47 GMT
You can get a 250 GB hard drive for like $40 bucks. Go steal from a church or something mow some lawns..
|
|
|
|
Post by Tech Warrior on Jul 7, 2011 4:41:20 GMT
250 GB?? For me, that's a huge amount! Well, I do have a 500 GB external hard drive, but it's like my full storage area... That's it! I should've backed everything up on that! Stupid me... . My dad has like 10 hard drives he keeps for storage - maybe tomorrow I'll check them out. 3 or 4 of them are 80 GB, so I might hop on one of those. |
|
dobrakmato
Advanced Marbler
C# Code master[ss:Default Skin]
Are you a XNA developer? Contact me!
Posts: 314
|
Post by dobrakmato on Jul 7, 2011 9:33:05 GMT
|
|
George
Experienced Marbler
[ss:Technostick's Skin]
So cool
Posts: 163
|
Post by George on Jul 18, 2011 3:53:27 GMT
Or you can back everything up to online for $5 or for free if you know how |
|
Rtyh-12
Experienced Marbler
Yay for Windows 8-style avatar!
Posts: 154
|
Post by Rtyh-12 on Jul 18, 2011 6:15:52 GMT
Or you can back everything up to online for $5 or for free if you know how Yeah, we are so glad to have a professional among us, could you please enlighten us as well? And you do realize that you just bumped an 11 day old topic for that comment, right? |
|
|
|
Post by Tech Warrior on Jul 18, 2011 15:26:31 GMT
Meh, it's no big deal. And about your suggestion, George, there is no way to get anything off of it. ...Because... The hard drive is PHYSICALLY broken, not dead. Even so, that's worse... |
|
|
|
Post by Aaron Y on Jul 18, 2011 15:55:47 GMT
That's horrible, next time get dropbox and put at least your important stuff on it like your maps and level. They aren't much data so they should all fit on the free version of DB.
|
|
|
|
Post by nobody on Jul 18, 2011 17:03:02 GMT
Or if you don't want to mess with cloud backups and you don't have an extra HD, you can always use a flash drive, or archive it securely (256-bit or more) on a friend's computer.
|
|
dobrakmato
Advanced Marbler
C# Code master[ss:Default Skin]
Are you a XNA developer? Contact me!
Posts: 314
|
Post by dobrakmato on Jul 18, 2011 17:13:48 GMT
Is your drive definitely brokenor you just cannot boot from it?
|
|
|
|
Post by Tech Warrior on Jul 18, 2011 17:39:52 GMT
Both. If it's physically broken (meaning, it's literal), then I can't boot from it. A break-down of what I'm saying means that if I boot Linux off a flash drive, and Windows still boots, I still can't see the hard drive on my computer.
|
|
|
|
Post by amunra on Jul 23, 2011 22:37:50 GMT
Ouch, that sucks. I had that happen to me a few months ago, but unfortunately my hard drive was too degraded to be able to retrieve any data from it. I hope you have better luck. See, this is why people should switch to solid-state memory (although I haven't). |
|
