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General Forums => Aces High General Discussion => Topic started by: USRanger on May 25, 2011, 08:40:39 PM
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A couple weeks ago I joined the brotherhood of those whose hard drive has crashed. My pc became stuck in a nonstop loop of reboot, error, reboot, error, etc. The only way to get it working again was to do a destructive restore, which took my pc back to the day it came out of the box.As a result, I lost every program file I had, including ALL of my AH stuff. Everything. Those that "know" me here can only imagine how much AH stuff that was. Years of terrains, skins, offline missions, sounds, films, ect, all gone. I bought 3 different programs that help to retrieve files after a reformat, but sadly, only one terrain file made it through. It's pretty frikkin' heartbreaking.
Anyhoo, I'm ready to begin starting over rebuilding my AH warehouse. Gonna take some time (it was 9 years worth of stuff!). The purpose of this thread is to tell anyone who I've promised a terrain, skin, mission, sounds update, etc. to, it's gonna be seriously delayed and I just wanted to apologize for that. This really sucks. Luckily, my project lineup is all safely in my bbs PMs, so I still have that to go by.
To anyone who's ever had a fatal hard drive crashed & lost everything, I :salute you, because even though I've read about it happening to many people here over the years, I never realized what a traumatic experience it can be.
(http://img88.imageshack.us/img88/124/wambulance.gif) (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/88/wambulance.gif/) <--I'm calling 'er in for myself this time. Me sad. :(
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Sorry to hear that, Ranger. Hundreds of hours of work gone. Same thing happened to me last year, but I didn't have nearly as much to lose as you.
You'll get it all back though. Surely you backed some things up on third party sites or with a thumb drive?
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:cry
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Sorry to hear about that, Ranger. :salute
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sorry ranger...tough break bud, i know how you feel.
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mosy.com is a free backup system, might have helped
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Ranger,
Buy a second hard drive and a $10-15 external enclosure for it (USB). Periodically mirror your drive to it. If it happens again just mirror back from the external to the main drive. Boom. Right back where you were.
BTW, GetDataBack should have recovered your files but you have to do it the first time. If you don't do it the first time you'll lose a large percentage of what could have been recovered. I used it to save thousands of files on a bad drive.
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if there's anyone in this game that does not deserve this to happen....it's you sir.
good luck. any way any of us can help?
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:(
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I too am sad to hear of your misfortunes, Ranger......... I can seriously imagine all the AH files you have lost and it would be mind numbing for most to realize how much you really lost
one thing that might help you is if you shared any files in the past with other community members, if they might could send you copies of files, textures, skins, etc.. or create a list of stuff and an upload portal to an FTP server to possibly help you gain some stuff back at a quicker pace.......... I know this would only be a limited amount, but any amount is something
wish ya the best, Sir!
TC
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setting my backup right now.......
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Another simple solution is Carbonite.
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Sorry for your troubles, USRanger. Good lesson for us all on the need for backups.
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I salute your demeanour
You sound pissed but taking it in your stride
You have contributed to AH above and beyond
Suppose it's a new start
Good luck sir
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mosy.com is a free backup system, might have helped
if it's tied to the internet then people hack it and take all personal info to wherever they want
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Too bad you did not alert us on here. You should have installed a new drive then restored the system or removed the damaged drive and and slaved it in another machine to get your files.
It could have been as easy as restoring the boot sector on the drive. In any case the files probably could have been saved.
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Too bad you did not alert us on here. You should have installed a new drive then restored the system or removed the damaged drive and and slaved it in another machine to get your files.
It could have been as easy as restoring the boot sector on the drive. In any case the files probably could have been saved.
I tried this when mine crashed. upon reboot it wiped the fresh install on the new drive. I saw my files for a second and blue screen.
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Too bad you did not alert us on here. You should have installed a new drive then restored the system or removed the damaged drive and and slaved it in another machine to get your files.
It could have been as easy as restoring the boot sector on the drive. In any case the files probably could have been saved.
There was a big thread in the Hardware/Software forum on this. Bad news is I think it's Ranger's only PC, and he couldn't even fire it up to log in and post a help question. The only way he knew to get it to boot was to use the recovery partition/cd to factory-new his system. By that time it was pretty much too late.
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I tried this when mine crashed. upon reboot it wiped the fresh install on the new drive. I saw my files for a second and blue screen.
That will not happen automatically. I have used these methods for years repairing systems and culling files from damaged drives.
Only drive I ever had to send out was one that the plates froze.
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sux Ranger.....bad.
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Thanks all for the kind words. I'll get started rebuilding this weekend. Gonna feel strange downloading my own stuff lol.
:salute
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Thanks all for the kind words. I'll get started rebuilding this weekend. Gonna feel strange downloading my own stuff lol.
:salute
True that lol