I'm having to post from school simply because my laptop's hard drive is dead =[. Although I'm getting some earlier hard drive put into it, that means my ziltoid picture is also gone, as well as EVERYTHING I was working on my album with, and I have also handed cubase back to the person I was borrowing it form, and he has handed it back to the person HE was borrowing it from. Another thing, for the FIFTH TIME, I'm going to have to rip EVERY devin and strapping album back onto my computer. If anyone else wishes to complain about their hard drives, let us all gather round and complain about microsoft (even if you aren't running on microsoft, complain about them anyway =P)

You have my sympathies, anyway. I decided just a minute ago that I needs to back up my music files onto DVD discs or something cos I dun trust my harddrive, and if it crashes and I lose all my music I'll go insane...

Once at work my computer went dead. When turned on, it displayed a black/white image of the old floppy disc commodore style and a text below saying SYSTEM NOT FOUND. When the technicians took a look at it, they found that it was completely empty, like it just came fresh out of the factory. I lost ... meh, I forgot and I don't even want to remember.

Always backup your music whenever you have finished something

I've got all my music in several DVDs And just to be sure, I'll move them to new DVDs every 2 - 3 years.

I lost 95GB of music when my external harddisk crashed.

Well... it wasn't the hard drives fault, but once I deleted a whole lot of my music and other stuff. I was trying to delete all those stupid Thumbs.db files, and through bad use of rm and xargs pipelining, I managed to remove most of my music past "T." I don't know why, maybe I did ctrl-c before it got it all. This is on linux, for all of you that don't know what I'm talking about.

I eventually got the right command, but then I realized that most of my shit was gone. Bad times.

My laptop's HD gets backed-up onto an external HD, and backed up again on another HD. Learned that the hard way when my last ever Windows machine pulled what sounds like the same stunt as Goat's. Haven't had any HD problems with any of my Macs though.

[JuZ]

My sympathies! (aka that sucks, my friend)

That would have me tearing my remaining hair out.

Hey, whilst on this topic can anyone recommend a good CD and DVD burning program for just this purpose? I've been meaning to back up all my beloved music and images for a while now and this seems like a timely reminder. Any help would be appreciated (and my attitudes re piracy have been well documented in the past, so you can rest assured it's for legitimate back-up purposes only).

Nero (whichever version it's on now) was my favourite Windows-based one.

Nero definitely. And stay away from Roxio. At least I hate it! I had to quickly burn some old movies a friend lent me - from my job comp and delete them to get some free space and now half of them don't play, "cyclic redundancy check" motherfucking shit. Never had similar problems with Nero.

[JuZ]

Excellent. Thank you both. I was leaning towards Nero so will definitely get a hold of it now.

that sucks!!my hard drive crashed about a year and a 1/2 ago and all i really lost was alot of music and live videos,nothin really important...except for all my SYL stuff luckily i got it replaced for free 'cause i was still under warranty

Nero definitely. And stay away from Roxio. At least I hate it! I had to quickly burn some old movies a friend lent me - from my job comp and delete them to get some free space and now half of them don't play, "cyclic redundancy check" motherfucking shit. Never had similar problems with Nero.

I got that with Nero too

I never fully understood what CRC is about and why it happens. Do you?

I never fully understood what CRC is about and why it happens. Do you?

CRC seems to be a "write process error". For example a long time ago I burned a DVD. (4.3GB) The optical impression was that the DVD was fully written but the sad truth was that the disk was only filled with 600MB.

CRC Failure is NOT repairable. That means the "trashcat" will pick it up for its home!