Computer Crash!!!

[alx]

Exactly.................

 

[trashcan]

I'll second that. The wd I that I just threw in the trash started having bad sectors pop up about a month after I got it and then just burned itself to death not even 18 months after I bought it. This is the first hd I've ever had die on me. Ever.

 

[scarbelly]

After having several HD crashes over the years I went out and spent $100 on a back up HD that has an autobackup program built into the drive. I dont do anything but let it run. Funny, since I bought the dang thing the HD crashes stopped happening - LOL

 

[zjaybird]

Paul, I have had hard drives crash a lot in the good old days. I am now very anal. I use Genie back up software and back up my complete computer on another local hard drive. All music, videos, pictures, documents go to an external hard drive which has Raid 1 software. The Raid NAS hard drive is 1 Tbyte. It uses only 500 gig and clones that drive onto another drive and the anal part is....that is not good enough for me, I have another external that clones the first one and like another smoker said...since I have done that...lucky me no crashes in 5 year....oops....just cursed myself there. Good luck..post the exchange when you can and if it takes too long the empty bottles will do.

Jay

 

[pigcicles]

Haha remember when 500 MB was big??? LOL now you can't buy a machine with that amount RAM and have it function.

Best wishes on the rebuild. At least your drive is still up and you can save info. Usually by the time I get the machines they are well done and usually killed by the owner not having up to date antivirus or malware programs.

 

[beer-b-q]

I started out with the old Tandy 1000 . It had a 10 meg HD and 640K of Ram thought I was in heaven...

 

[alx]

How bout those winchester disks....

 

[centexcarnivore]

All, WalMart has WD Passport 320gb USB drives for $49 in the morning. This is a great deal and you can never have too many back-ups!

 

[silverwolf636]

I had a crash here too last week. I got it narrowed down to one bank (1GB) of my memory went out. I'm bak up and running but with only half my ram.
Hope ya get it fixed.
Ray

 

[silverwolf636]

The old Tandy's. LOL I had a DOS based tandy (i think they came with a program called Deskmate or something like that) that had 256k ram and I thought I was cookin. Wow, 256k ram, I'll never use it all. Mid 80's
Ray

 

[beer-b-q]

That is what the Tandy 1000 was, didn't have enough horsepower to run Windows...LOL

 

[toxie]

I started with a Commodore 64... No hard drive, a 5.25 floppy disk reader and only 64K (yep, 64 not 640) of internal ram, the CPU speed was a blazing 1.02 MHz, only DOS and a blinking light. When you turned the power off you would lose everything. We have come a long way since those days...

When I tell my nieces and nephews about the commodore 64 they think it was a band from the 70's or something... they never heard of such a creature...

 

[nate_46]

Don't forget about the Texas Instruments with the audio tape drive..... Can't remember what the model was or the ram, I can just remember sitting there saying......


You mean I can now save what I just worked on?????