Hard Drive Crash = Life Crash

I just lost all of my data.

Yesterday early morning I was preparing some of my usual Monday reports while downloading upgrades to my hardware. My downloads go directly do my biggest storage drive, a 320GB Seagate single stripped as a Raid drive, courtesy of my motherboard's built in raid and SATA driver. In English, it simply means that this big ass hard disk is wired to go extra fast. I installed it that way for my video editing projects, so they'd run smoother.

Anyway, from out of the blue, my downloads stopped. If you guys use Vuze (formerly Azureus) you'll know a download's stopped (or in deep doodoo) when the smiley face turns dark red and frowning. Lo and behold ALL of my downloads, whether the files I've been seeding or the ones I was currently downloading, were now beet-red frowning faces.

Shocked, I did the first thing any sane PC user would do when a usual problem like this would present itself--restart Windows.

That's when everything went downhill.

My system wouldn't start if my hard drive was attached, and if I was able to run windows it would hang every five minutes.

So, after an arduous and painstaking crash recovery process, I was able to back up some of my data, beginning with my personal files and projects... but that was a 320GB hard drive... you can't just transfter that much data in a working window of 5 minutes and hope to be ok.

Bottomline, what little time I had left, I used to save the things more important to me... my digicam photos. Yes, call me camwhore, but that was almost 10 years worth of photos and videos. I wasn't about to let that go without a fight.

Next in my list would have been my work folder, all of the projects I'd done in the past 5 to 6 years was stored in that hard drive. I was going to back up my projects folder starting with my most recent work when, lo and behold, the hard drive started squealing like mad. And then it died.

When your hard drive starts sounding like a teapot, it's time to let go I think.

So, I spent all of last night and this morning trying to repair it. I've even started talking to my hard drive and massaging it gently in the hopes that it might revive itself. Sadly, that only works on my knees when old age sets in.

Now I'm wondering what the hell I'm supposed to do.



Anyone know anyone willing to do data recovery for free? =(


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Help a brutha out! I've got some stuff to sell...

Maybe you guys know someone interested in buying. Here's what I got:
(From my Sulit.com.ph page)

Ibanez SWX100 Bass Combo 100W Amplifier
Slightly used (as a guitar and sometimes as a bass amp) for a few gigs but still in perfect working order. Bought in Hong Kong (TOM LEE Music Mega Store), July 2008 and brought home to the Philippines, August 2008.

Blue LED/power light, Tweeter switch, CD/MP3 component input.















See the following sites for more info:
http://www.zzounds.com/item--IBASWX100
http://www.samedaymusic.com/product--IBASWX100
http://www.music123.com/Ibanez-SWX100-100W-1x15-Bass-Combo-Amp-500150-i1421827.Music123

Actual USD Price range varies from $349 to $465 (Php16.8k to Php22.4k) excluding delivery and tax charges.

I'm selling it for only Php15K

• EDIT: Removed the other 2... sold na kasi eh! ~Iggy

Meetup: Willing to meet in Marikina, Cainta and Ortigas Area.

Reason for Selling: I've moved to a new place and I need money / want to free up space due to smaller unit.

Contact me: 09178677813 or 09178923860

Serious buyers only please!

Top 10 One-Hit Wonders of the 90s

Hehehe... it's informative... and funnee too. =P



Curiously enough, I have all of those songs on my 90s playlist. Yes including I'm Too Sexy. =P

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Ask your doctor...

From: http://failblog.org/

Yes even these things need a place on the internet.

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Obama's Elf

Don't wanna be... Obama's Elf... anymore...





ROFLMAOOO!!!


Spanks to Cartoon Brew and my Plurk buddies for linking it. ^_^

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Wifi in Tagaytay

Hehehe my latest Cnet Asia blog post.

Nasa Tagaytay ako! Whee!

Follow the link please!
http://asia.cnet.com/member/TARUGOMAN/blog/?v=post&id=63008943

Chris Avellone at the e-Services 2009

My gamer geek alter ego is all giddy with excitement! Chris Avellone, Co-Founder and Creative Director of Obsidian Entertainment, is going to be the first talk during the second day of the e-Services Conference at the SMX Convention Center (beside the SM Mall of Asia). And yes, he was the lead programmer behind Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, to name a few, and also part one of the designers behind such awesome hits such as Icewind Dale and my all-time fave Fallout 2. Chris gained fame after the success of Planescape:Torment, arguably one of the best RPGs in recent years.

Read the whole thing over at my Cnet blog:
http://asia.cnet.com/member/TARUGOMAN/blog/?v=post&id=63008825

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