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dude russ, same thing happened to me a few days ago

http://forum.ableton.com/viewtopic.php? ... HD+failure

Rave, got meself a 320gig sata drive, turns out it's the same make 'seagate' as the one i took out. It sits in a little screw on sled, which was a bloody pain to take off the old one and fit to the new one, but once done, easy as pie. Cheap as chips as well really...

Damn, if I'd know how cheap it was I'd have bought a bigger HD years ago...I'm such a tech noob

Jek, I didn't see that...bad juju for you too!

My only saving grace is that I store nothing on the main HD that I miss or is important apart from a couple of tracks I was working on, but hey, since I doubt they're going to make me rich or famous...I'll just start again!

Did you lose much important stuff?

Well, as I understand it now, 2.5" HD's fit any notebook, laptop type percuter. Then you just need to know it it's SATA or IDE. I learnt that Macbook requires SATA.

So I bought a 2.5" 320gig SATA HD 5400 8mb Cache, was like £69 or something.

sweet.

To me, I guess and HD is and HD, but I'm sure more techy guys will tell you otherwise.

Any brand'll do as long as the aforementioned specs are right. (2.5", SATA)

Rave wrote:I've bought it already hehe.

How's the reinstall going?

I am tempted to start from scratch too.

Niiiice, nearly there. Reinstated from my last back-up, beginngin of April, got 99% of purchased music back, all my pics, address book etc.etc. all desk top files, most ableton 7 projects that were on the disk.

Totally cool. Re-installed a few missing plugs and re-authorised, just installing Session Drums and EIC2 and i ma back to square oone.

With a lot more Gigs of HD space to spare!



Massive props to Anamexis, who switched me on to the idea of just buying a new HD! You are the MAN!

UKRuss wrote:White screen....flashing picture of a file folder with a question mark in it.

Does that mean death?

no no silly rabbit...macs just work ok.

BTW, do you guys use TIME MACHINE?

I've got an external HD, that I use as a second storage (live projects, mp3s, videos...),

is it possible to use it with timemachine, WITHOUT erasing its content?

do you use TimeMachine, or CarbonCopyCloner, or something else to backup your systems?

cheers

monstrejumo wrote:BTW, do you guys use TIME MACHINE?

I've got an external HD, that I use as a second storage (live projects, mp3s, videos...),

is it possible to use it with timemachine, WITHOUT erasing its content?

do you use TimeMachine, or CarbonCopyCloner, or something else to backup your systems?

cheers

i use time machine for my full backup and Silverkeeper (free) for certain folders i double / triple back up...

djozonelayer wrote:That's why I switched to a PC. The Mac hard drives are not reliable.

That's just dumb, they use the same HD's that most Windows based laptops use. WD, Samsung, Seagate, they are not Apple specific drives.

thanks Sub',

in fact I never used timemachine... reading threads like this one can be scary.

I'll check timemachine really soon.


@Tarekith: djozonelayer may be 1) really new to this forums, or 2) kidding... in either case it's funny Welcome to the war zone djozonelayer!!! but if you're really a pro-pc guy... watch your steps because this land is full of mac-mines

monstrejumo wrote:thanks Sub',

in fact I never used timemachine... reading threads like this one can be scary.

I'll check timemachine really soon.

backing up your data / drives is vital... i am totally paranoid after i had once years ago a crash and lost tons of hours of work... since then i backup everything, some stuff up to 4 times on 4 different drives...

at todays HD prices i have no mercy with people loosing data... backup, backup, backup, backup...

HD drives, no matter which brand and no matter if since only 1 hour in use or since 10 years, can die any moment of time...

^^^

interesting!?!?

a bluff??? insult???

and your commend about HDs is seriously stoopit.

djozonelayer wrote:What's dumb is you throwing OZONE 4 on your mastering stuff and charging people for it like you did something magic to their songs.

Do you want me to let everyone know how you ripped me off?

Yes, please do. I'm sure we're all interested in hearing about it, especially me as I have no idea what you're talking about.


As for digital backups, I once read that digital data does not truly exist unless it's copied to three diferent places. I use an external HD connected to my MBP for daily backups, and we have a seperate HD connected via our Airport Extreme for Time Machine back ups. Once a year I also go through and spend a day backing up the important stuff to DVDr too. YOu get burned once, you tend to get paranoid.

- clones, yes. Carbon Copy cloner is a good one I used to use with my "old" tiger system.

- does Time machine makes clones (I mean bootable images of the whole system)?

or shall I use CCC like I did before?

@ Tarekith : I like your idea of data that do NOT exist until there are at least 3 copies of it...

DVDrs is a good idea too.

@ DjOzonelayer : you may have a personnal conflict with Tarekith, but I don't think it's the right place to fight. Anyway, it's none of my business, I'd rather STFU I guess.


cheers