jvick is a College Grad (Saturday)
Off to the store for some wings and tri-tip!! (and beverage, of course)! 
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We learned to tie flies, tied our own, learned about fishing techniques/styles, where in a stream the trout are most likely to be, when what temperature, etc. The final was to tie 3 wet and 3 dry flies, as well as a 35 question final. So it wasn't too bad.
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so I got a Seagate drive for my external because I always heard that even though their customer service sucks, its ok because most likely I'd never have to contact them.
Yeah, my Seagate HDD is dead after 3 months
weeeeeird. So here's when I think the HDD died. The other day I was downloading a torrent to the drive (an external drive with its own power) and the power at the house went out for a few minutes and then came back. Then it went out a few minutes later and came back again. I think it did this a few more times judging from the times on the clocks when I got home from work (I left for work after it came on the second time). So since the computer (a laptop, so it stayed powered) was writing to the disk when the power went out, it must have messed something up.
Here's the really weird part. The HDD showed up in the Mac's disk utilities app, but I couldn't repair it so I brought it in to the store I got my macbook from and they put the drive in two different computers and said it wouldn't mount in them either (same problem as on my mac) and he said he could hear it spinning but couldn't hear the head moving. So I take it back home, plug it in, doesn't mount. I boot the computer from the install disk so I can run disk utilities without any other programs running, still can't be repaired. So since I'm going to have to send it in for warranty anyways I decide to click the erase button. It goes for 10 seconds, and then says the disk is erased. I'm like "
wtf?" and I go to the verify/repair section, and it says the disk is now ok.
I boot up the computer completely and the drive mounts
but now its empty. Luckily I didn't do the secure erase so I'm going to try to find some application with which I can retrieve the data.
Yeah, my Seagate HDD is dead after 3 months
weeeeeird. So here's when I think the HDD died. The other day I was downloading a torrent to the drive (an external drive with its own power) and the power at the house went out for a few minutes and then came back. Then it went out a few minutes later and came back again. I think it did this a few more times judging from the times on the clocks when I got home from work (I left for work after it came on the second time). So since the computer (a laptop, so it stayed powered) was writing to the disk when the power went out, it must have messed something up.
Here's the really weird part. The HDD showed up in the Mac's disk utilities app, but I couldn't repair it so I brought it in to the store I got my macbook from and they put the drive in two different computers and said it wouldn't mount in them either (same problem as on my mac) and he said he could hear it spinning but couldn't hear the head moving. So I take it back home, plug it in, doesn't mount. I boot the computer from the install disk so I can run disk utilities without any other programs running, still can't be repaired. So since I'm going to have to send it in for warranty anyways I decide to click the erase button. It goes for 10 seconds, and then says the disk is erased. I'm like "
wtf?" and I go to the verify/repair section, and it says the disk is now ok.I boot up the computer completely and the drive mounts
but now its empty. Luckily I didn't do the secure erase so I'm going to try to find some application with which I can retrieve the data.
Last edited by VRT MBasile; May 17, 2008 at 02:56 PM.