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17 years ago
Commissions are currently CLOSED.
Info: http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/1084637/
Info: http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/1084637/
Hard drive went. Until I can get my computer fixed, commissions will be slow, as I have to borrow Jesse's computer for anything other than sketching or flat solids, the monitor on the laptop I'm updating from is crap for colouring things or doing watercolour lines. ]: SORRY ABOUT THAT GUYS, will try and fix as soon as possible.
UPDATE:
It turns out it's not the hard drive itself, it's the motherboard. After letting it sit a day, tried turning it on again and it actually booted. Talked to some guy who gave advice on lengthening its not-so-long life, and hopefully it'll last another two months before it drops, at which point the cost of a motherboard suggests I go ahead and buy a new computer, as this one's six years old. THEM'S LIFE, I GUESS.
UPDATE:
It turns out it's not the hard drive itself, it's the motherboard. After letting it sit a day, tried turning it on again and it actually booted. Talked to some guy who gave advice on lengthening its not-so-long life, and hopefully it'll last another two months before it drops, at which point the cost of a motherboard suggests I go ahead and buy a new computer, as this one's six years old. THEM'S LIFE, I GUESS.
I wish you luck in fixing your computer and salvaging your data.
in the end I got the hard drive working again but I had to reformat it so it would work so I lost everything on it and for some reason it went from 200gb to 31gb which makes no sense at all
http://www.grc.com/sr/spinrite.htm
What it will do is recover from a platter surface defect or maybe a dying stepper motor. What it won't fix is a dead spindle motor or a completely dead stepper motor or a dead daughter board. So say you turn on your computer and your harddrive doesn't make ANY noise, then there's not much you can do. If the drive spins up and makes a bunch of clickity noises, then there's a good chance all you need is that program. I used it on my coworker's harddrive because it was stuck in a boot loop (you know, boot... blue screen... reboots... another blue screen... continue forever). We ran chkdsk, but it didn't help. We ran Spinrite, it recovered data from the bad sectors, and 15 minutes later, the computer was working fine again.
Gah, sorry this sounds like ad, but I don't want you to rebuild a whole new system when you could probably be up and running in one afternoon.
Good luck!
Update on situation, though: It turns out it's not the hard drive itself, it's the motherboard. After letting it sit a day, tried turning it on again and it actually booted. Talked to some guy who gave advice on lengthening its not-so-long life, and hopefully it'll last another two months before it drops, at which point the cost of a motherboard suggests I go ahead and buy a new computer. This one's six years, and has been showing it long before what happened last night. ]: