*cries*

Dec. 14th, 2005 09:25 pm
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My 120GB external harddrive is dead. I don't think it had anything extremely important on it, and now that I can remote desktop into my computer at school, I can access most of the grad school and other info that I had copied to bring home. But it had all of my OSTs and a good portion of my unwatched anime and all my music videos and some of my pictures and various other things I kind of want back.

It was working fine last night, but this evening I noticed that it wasn't on anymore. My power adapter has a green LED, which dimmed and flickered when I turned it on, which it didn't do before. There was no other response from the drive, so I thought it was a power supply issue like I had with my computer in the past. I opened the case up and we put the drive into my sister's computer, and ended up frying one of the chips on the logic board, apparently. [And when we put her computer back together afterwards, it would no longer boot up until I unplugged the floppy drive. In general I'm not as cynical as most people are about computers being incomprehensible and subject to Murphy's Law, but sometimes...]

I've been Googling around, and it seems like it might be possible to get the thing working again by just replacing the logic board, but there are lots of scary comments like it won't work unless it's from the same batch or something. My poor data. ;_;

Any advice from you computer savvy people on the friends list? The drive's a Maxtor Diamondmax Plus 9 120GB ATA/133, if that helps.
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