PC wont boot - possible fooked hd

[MrMarkyMark]

<placeholder> had to redownload my collection and now Goldeneye want another £1000 off me</placeholder>

650GB of "sensitive" information to reinstate

[psychocandy]

It worked for me on a 500GB USB SATA drive less than 2 months ago. What did you use to encrypt your partition? I would suggest trying it and DON'T try decrypt the partition if you are able to then access it. Get it on, get it off, get it out and get rid...

ok worth a try then.

Truecrypt. Its actually a single massive file that works as an encrypted virtual drive.

[psychocandy]

<placeholder> had to redownload my collection and now Goldeneye want another £1000 off me</placeholder>

Ha ha :-)

Goldeneye never followed up from last time - as expected. Seed box is way to go - no chance of getting caught....

[psychocandy]

Freezer idea didnt work. If anything disk clicked even louder. Weird since disk is spinning.

Time to re-download my sheep porn.

[quackhandle]

Funnily enough, when The Wife (tm) did her masters, the same thing happened - cheap USB, no backup. Early on in project I'd got her to do daily backups and to email me with the critical files.

At uni I worked on a computer helpdesk we got this all the time. Mostly ladies coming in with the old 1.44MB disks that where literally falling apart with their entire 4 years' work + dissertation on it with no backup whatsoever. Cue many tears.

Of course I would offer a friendly shoulder to cry on at this sad time.

qh

[psychocandy]

Freezer idea didnt work. If anything disk clicked even louder. Weird since disk is spinning.

Time to re-download my sheep porn.

Fookin tulipty seagate drive. Aint even that old (but outside warranty)