What Would Make A New HHD Just Stop Working?

[themrspeedoist]

I have a new HHD that just stop working. I was going to use it like I have with all my other HHDs. I never had a brand new HHD just stop working without any warning. Sure I have had HHDs start to sputter and die but with warning. I always was lucky by having time retreiveing my files. But never ever just stop working. It is a external HHD so I took it out of it's shell and main lined it into a pc but again just no luck. One symptom though when I do this. The pc will stop working until I unplug the bad HHD and unplug the pc then hold down the power button for 8 seconds then plug in the power then it will reboot. But if you do not do this the pc will never start up. Strange indeed. I expect the HHD is good (maybe) but it has to have a different way to get it to boot. Any feed back? Thanks

 

[firewolfrl]

I use redundancies,
If I load an Operating system and set it up to the way I like it. I then clone the OS so I have a working copy on a secondary drive.
same with data

one of the big things I do is I use offsite backups for my clients.
My client's business burned to the ground and they lost every computer in the building (about 4)
they only lost one day of data and all the bookkeeping data was recovered. as so the days work on their dedicated software.

I use to think that in-house backup was good enough...not anymore

if my client had not had the offsite option they would be out of business.
all I could think was it was a good thing they got over their TRUST issues and used the service

Trust issues with critical data is the biggest issue I have with my clients...especially medical billing and the HEPPA laws.


themrspeedoist
I wish you luck and sorry about the data loss.

 

[edfair]

Over the years I've personally lost 5 or 6. Mostly it has been backed up on other machines, since I have one that I dump to regularly. But I periodically burn data to a CD and throw it in the car. And some critical stuff gets written to floppy and stored in another car.

My Unix customers back up nightly to another drive and that backup is burned to CD. I check weekly to verify that stuff had backed up successfully and that the burns were good. They are responsible beyond that for off site storage.


Ed Fair
Give the wrong symptoms, get the wrong solutions.