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(re)Building
14 years ago
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Recently* I'd been having troubles with my 500gb secondary HD so I had to buy a new one to replace the primary HD** and recover what I could from the secondary. This Christmas, I got a new*** 250gb HD and I had my friend install it after backing up what little I could rescue.
Turns out that there were some snags.
The HD I got for Christmas? Most likely refurbished. It only registered about 150gb of usable space. As for my 500gb? Bricked. Totally useless. I suppose there's a certain amount of irony in that: My old HD (which is outmatched by modern flash drives) lasts for more than a decade while the 500gb lasts for a third of that.
Rebuilding from nothing is probably the most difficult part. I'm struggling to dredge my memory for what programs, apps, bookmarks and extensions I had that made my life easier. Not to mention things like music, game saves, reaction pics, bits of writing and a porn collection that staggered the imagination.
Now all that is lost to the ether.
Sometimes I wonder how much of the data I had gathered was unique. Does that ever cross anyone else's mind? When you have something on your computer that has been scoured from the web and you never see it again, but you're okay with that because it's on your computer? Because I get that. (Ask me about the Spunky Knight wallpaper sometime.)
As for me, I'm going to try and reconstruct my bookmarks folder and hope that my memory hasn't gone so creaky that I've forgotten all my passwords.
*recently being from about a year ago to this past September, when it died
** A 16gb relic that dated back to the antediluvian 2001 A.D.!
***probably not so new
Turns out that there were some snags.
The HD I got for Christmas? Most likely refurbished. It only registered about 150gb of usable space. As for my 500gb? Bricked. Totally useless. I suppose there's a certain amount of irony in that: My old HD (which is outmatched by modern flash drives) lasts for more than a decade while the 500gb lasts for a third of that.
Rebuilding from nothing is probably the most difficult part. I'm struggling to dredge my memory for what programs, apps, bookmarks and extensions I had that made my life easier. Not to mention things like music, game saves, reaction pics, bits of writing and a porn collection that staggered the imagination.
Now all that is lost to the ether.
Sometimes I wonder how much of the data I had gathered was unique. Does that ever cross anyone else's mind? When you have something on your computer that has been scoured from the web and you never see it again, but you're okay with that because it's on your computer? Because I get that. (Ask me about the Spunky Knight wallpaper sometime.)
As for me, I'm going to try and reconstruct my bookmarks folder and hope that my memory hasn't gone so creaky that I've forgotten all my passwords.
*recently being from about a year ago to this past September, when it died
** A 16gb relic that dated back to the antediluvian 2001 A.D.!
***probably not so new
So, the question is, did the old hard drive truly stop working or can it still spin up?
The other thing to try would be to get a hardrive--->USB adapter, you can use internal drives like an external to see if it reads it that way :D
That happened with my first ever computer, the hard drive died, I still have it sitting around, I'd freaking love to see what's on it, I'd have a lot of super old drawings, and mp3s and all that kind of stuff, it'd be great to see.