Did you guys ever figure out what happened to the hard drive?

#1

what happened? obviously it failed, but do you know why?

#2

swine flu

#3

Hard drives fail. They have moving parts. (on a side note, my friend’s last ditch effort to save his hard drive worked. He froze it and then hit it a few times and it worked again.)

#4

That is…wow I’ve heard of freezing batteries and hitting them, but never hard drives.

#5

yes, it got deleted tons !

#6

well, did it overheat? did it get a virus? what went wrong?

#7

Our hypothesis was that the bearings got misaligned. When he froze it, they contracted. By hitting it he realigned the bearings and it worked. Voila.

#8

[the hdd on the server was , it had the spinning parts like any other hdd , it’s a possibily that the disc that records data may have expanded like metal tends to do from heat , which came from extensive usage of the data from it , and if it at some moment it became cooling or if it stopped for a sec , the data that was recorded on the expanded type of disc was all streched inwards , which can cause total deletion , but has chances that can be recovered , if however it’s a hacking attept that made the hardrive replace all the files it had with 0kb files , overwriting , there is almost no chance of ever saving what was on it]

#9

actually, from what I hear replacing everything with 0kb files can be recovered from, if you have really good, really expensive recovery software, the problem is when you have randomized junk files.

#10

When files are removed from a hard drive, they aren’t actually removed, just the reference to them is removed, and the hard drive says it’s free space that can be written over. So, those recovery programs are just looking through the hard drive for files that haven’t been overwritten by something else yet, and then restoring that reference to them.

Bscly.

#11

… was about to say if you know any software that recovers data

#12

Fix’d

#13

Conficker C

#14

Pig flu

#15

Fix’d

Also: In another thread, Josh told me that it looks like they may have been attacked, since not just one of the hard drives went bad, and it appears that they were wiped.

#16

Google it.

I doubt that this hard drive could be recovered that way. That’s probably the first thing they tried.

#17

It got too hard.

#18

omg my firmware just became hardware . . . . o w8 no i was mistaken its just software . . . .

#19

If you’re not careful you might make my software into firmware.

Very firm-ware.

#20

It was it’s day off.

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