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Post by Al Heeley on Feb 20, 2007 2:58:00 GMT -5
My HD went AWOL on Sunday. It froze for some reason, maybe just worn out. The only way I could restart was to do a fresh Windows install from back-up cd's. This has wiped the entire contents of both hard drives Three years worth of skins, textures, templates and all the decals I've been amassing for different projects. I'm calm now but I guess over the next few weeks I will realise just how much stuff has been lost and how hard it will be to replace it. Maybe time to get a couple of external drives and actually start backing up stuff properly in future.
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Post by Bunta on Feb 20, 2007 3:35:29 GMT -5
Remember when the same thing happened to me a while back? I was devastated. I know how you feel. I guess I'll have to make a special decal and goodies pack up for you to ease the pain of starting afresh.
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Post by Dan on Feb 20, 2007 4:39:22 GMT -5
The thrill of web space I update all my skinning tools onto my website every time I do something new But I have gone through what you are going through once... But that was with music. That's easily replaced.... Bad luck mate Good thing is... You have allot more skills now and after you re do stuff I’m sure they will be of much more quality. Anyways... Good luck with your quest of retrieving everything. I'd love to help out mate... Give me a PM if you need anything like decals or something... P.S stuff is PNG.... I work with FireWorks :X
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Post by smax on Feb 20, 2007 9:43:05 GMT -5
I'm pretty confident I've got all the decal packs you've posted on here and quite a few of your skins too. I also have the FTP space to stick them into so you can get them back if needs be.
Drop me a line if you need my help to get back on your feet mate.
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Post by Ian.H on Feb 20, 2007 13:40:24 GMT -5
Sorry to hear that Al.. I recently had 30Gb of my 160Gb "go south" too in a HDD crash (I should have known better than to trust a 3 year old windoze install to remain stable) and lost a lot of my 3DS stuff and ~50,000 lines of code over various projects.. makes for one hell of a crappy time Like others have offered, if you think I may have anything useful that you could do with, just holla and I'll see what I can sort out Regards, Ian
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Post by Al Heeley on Feb 20, 2007 15:34:42 GMT -5
Thx for your support guys, really appreciate it. Some important stuff Ian H kindly supplied on CD some time ago, the rest, any decal packs, there's a fair bit posted here I can d/load again plus Buinta's essential skin kits. Soon be up and skinning again
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Post by Matt on Feb 20, 2007 16:24:21 GMT -5
Sorry to hear that man, I know how you feel. Last year, the PC with 3 years worth of pixeling decided to die on me, EVERYTHING was lost. Hope you make a speedy recovery!
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Post by Vilante on Feb 20, 2007 17:05:00 GMT -5
Bad luck Al, maybe you should post in here if you ever need anything, surely someone here will have it Hope you recover quickly, there's nothing worse, I think it's all hit us in one way or another.
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Post by schUPpor on Feb 21, 2007 15:42:55 GMT -5
Damn!!! I really feel with you! That's definiteliy the worst case imaginable. Making music with the computer professionally for many years lead me to becoming kind of a "backuper" after I lost pieces of work and creative output a few times. That helps. And your terrible experience makes me setting up my system immediately 'cause I want to do that for some weeks now, anyway. But let's have a little copy session first...
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Post by MAGGOT on Feb 22, 2007 7:51:50 GMT -5
Sorry to hear it man. Hopefully you'll be up and ready in no time! I know with the help of this great place I got back on my butt and skinning quite quickly after losing my work.
Maybe I should backup what I've done since my last reformat now, too, before I lose it again. I can only fit like 10-15 PSDs on a cd though! LOL How much space to DVDRs have (or what range is most common?) and what is the difference between +R and -R?
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Post by Al Heeley on Feb 22, 2007 8:06:44 GMT -5
My friend Wikipedia says a DVD+R is a writable optical disc with 4.7 GB (4.38 GiB) of storage capacity (more precisely, 2295104 sectors of 2048 bytes each). The format was developed by a coalition of corporations, known as the DVD+RW Alliance, in mid 2002. Since the DVD+R format is a competing format to the DVD-R format, which is developed by the DVD Forum, it has not been approved by the DVD Forum, which claims that the DVD+R format is not an official DVD format.
In October of 2003, it was demonstrated that double layer technology could be used with a DVD+R disc to nearly double the capacity to 8.5 GB per disc. Manufacturers have incorporated this technology into commercial devices since mid-2004 (see DVD+R DL).
Unlike DVD+RW discs, DVD+R discs can only be written to once. Because of this, DVD+R discs are suited to applications such as nonvolatile data storage, audio, or video. This can be very confusing because the DVD+RW Alliance logo is a stylized "RW" (See image, below). Thus, a DVD+R disc can have the RW logo, but it is not rewritable.
The DVD+R logo.The DVD+R format is divergent from the DVD-R format. Hybrid drives that can handle both, often labeled "DVD±RW", are very popular since there is not yet a single standard for recordable DVDs. There are a number of significant technical differences between the dash (or often, incorrectly called "minus") format and the plus format, though most consumers would not notice the difference. One example is the ADIP system of tracking and speed control being less susceptible to interference and error than the LPP system used by DVD-R, which makes the ADIP system more accurate at higher speeds. Also DVD+R(W) has a more robust error management system than DVD-R(W), allowing for more accurate burning to media independent of the quality of the media. Additional session linking methods are quite a bit more accurate with DVD+R(W) versus DVD-R(W), resulting in fewer damaged or unusable discs due to buffer under-run and multi-session disks with fewer PI/PO errors.[citation needed]
Like other plus media, it is possible to use bitsetting to increase the compatibility of DVD+R media.
As of 2006, the market for recordable DVD technology shows little sign of settling down in favor of either the plus or dash formats, which is mostly the result of the increasing numbers of dual-format devices that can record to both formats; it has become very difficult to find new devices that can only record to one of the formats. However, because the DVD-R format has been in use since 1997, it has had a five-year lead on DVD+R. As such, older or cheaper DVD players (up to 2004 vintage) are more likely to favour the DVD-R standard exclusively, and when creating DVDs for distribution (where the playing unit is unknown or older) the DVD-R format would normally be preferable.
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Post by Bunta on Feb 22, 2007 8:23:28 GMT -5
I would like to say that in my personal experience (which spans the life of optical drives and their media), that rewriteable disks are generally not good value. Media has become so inexpensive these days - per MB. I have rewritable disks that are 7-8 years old and have never been rewritten upon. I have rewriteable disks that won't play in some optical drives.
With 200GB portable USB hard drives now very affordable, removable storage should be cheap, and it is. I'll take the cheap and nasty non-rewritable disks every time.
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Post by MAGGOT on Feb 22, 2007 15:13:36 GMT -5
Same here; I've never once bought a re-writable disk. From that wikipedia explanation, +R seems the way to go. I'll pick up a pack when I leave work sunday morning and backup all my important junk
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Post by Vilante on Feb 22, 2007 17:26:59 GMT -5
I did mine the day Al posted his bad news.
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Post by MAGGOT on Mar 11, 2008 14:22:18 GMT -5
Super Bump! Well, I just reformatted my harddrive today after Windows decided that it wanted to corrupt a system file that it requires to, well.. run. Since it was not a harddrive failure I was able to back everything up that I wanted to keep (forgot a couple things though ) via a Ubuntu Live Disk. For anyone here who has a windows problem requiring a reformat, and doesn't want to lose everything, get an external HDD and a Ubuntu Live Disk. Just toss the disk in the drive, set your BIOS to boot from the disk, and pick the "Start or Install Ubuntu" option from the menu. You don't need to install Linux/Ubuntu on your system even, it just runs straight from the disk. I was able to get most of my important stuff backed up onto my external HDD this way (including my LFS skinning stuff! ) so I didn't lose it when I reformatted. Just an idea for some of you to keep in mind. I'm gunna get my hands on a copy of Ubuntu to keep for these occasions in the future.
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