Last night when i got home from a long borring day of staring at servers all for 8 hours i thought i would sit down and play some AH.
Open up AH and select OK to connect, after 2 minutes of staring at the frozen cursor on "ok" the program crashes to the desktop and explorer is totaly frozen.
im thinking "ok, i dont mind to much to pay to beta test the new version of AH, kinda used to it crashing" as it boots up and locks up on scan disk.
After waiting for a 5-10 minutes and being at 16% the entire time i restart, same thing.
The 3rd time i get an error that my registry is not valid and i need to run regwiz from the command prompt, Ok good idea.
When attempting to correct the reg error it locks up on "backing up system files" for a good hour or 2, in the time i washed dishes ate dinner and watched some of full metal jacket. Came back, same way i left it.
I run the hard drive utilities that came for all western digital drives and it tells me that the drive has bad sectors that cannot be repaired. The hd utility can read the data and also recognizes it as a valid FAT.
when using a boot up disk im told its not a valid FAT or partiton on drive C.
At this point im just going to fdisk and start from scrath, hopefully repair the bad sectors or at least mark them as non use.
No deal, apon format it freezes for a good half hour and comes back with a error i cannot remeber, none the less the hard drive is not writeable.
3 weeks ago i lost the other hard drive that "was" on the RAID with this one im writing about. That is 2 30gig ata 100 hard drives, dead.
So, i open up another PC on my LAN and pull a very small spare drive out of it that i use for back up (1.6 gig ata 33) and put that in my main system.
When i boot the other PC up thats on the LAN that i got the hard drive out of, the hard drive in that one ticks like a clock and does not get recoginized buy the BIOS and i am presented with the ever so forgiving error "non system disk".
So here i am with 2 pcs open cased one to my front, one to my right, 2 key boards in the same corisponding areas, trouble shooting 2 pcs. After 7 hours i give up. No back ups, all data lost.
When the RAID died i lost 40 gigs of share files and a 30 gig hard drive. 3 weeks later the other hard drive croaks, then another in the same night.
death toll:
1 x 30gig western digital ATA 100 7200 RPM
1 x 30gig western digital ATA 100 7200 RPM
1 x 13gig western digital ATA 66 5400 RPM
All in all i am corn holed, im still waiting to here back from western digital about the first hard drive, no response in any form.
so now im down to one 1.6 gig (ata 33)hard drive, this is discusting me to no end. Ive lost so much unreplaceable data i could screem, and if i dont get a response back soon i am going to, in some over paid tech support managers ear.
I do 3d rendering, level design and a lot of sound effect work, i had back ups of all the data in 2 (2 pcs) locations which are now gone.
This comes as a surprise to me, all 5 of my drives are western digital. Now all i have to show for it is a 1.6 gig and a 540 meg drive. The company i would boast about in hard ware discussion has turn me over and corn holed me worse than i have ever been and are not conpencating me in any way, only time can tell now.
[ 10-11-2001: Message edited by: Am0n ]
