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mo1e:
Hey guys I have a dilemma. I have an old pc I'm wanting to run mame but I think the harddrive is bust. Here's my question if I buy a new harddrive and install it have I lost all my roms and stuff and will all the programs I installed on the pc still be there? And if not will my bookmarked webpages still be on it so I can gather all my roms and such? Sorry I've never installed a harddrive.
ark_ader:
Define broken. Is it a desktop hard drive? Is it clicking? Or are you hearing a thud and clunking sound? :lol If it is clicking it might be a PSU issue, otherwise you have a dead chipmunk in your drive.
Two things you can do if it is not clinking and clunking.
1. Get a plastic bag (without holes) and stick the Hard Drive in the bag and put the bag (very important) in the freezer for an hour. Then stick it back in the PC and power on. If the drive works - move your ---steaming pile of meadow muffin--- off it as fast as you can. I told this to a customer once who placed the bag in the freezer then waited an hour and saying that it didn't work. Due to me not explicitly telling him to put the hard drive in the bag. :lol True Story.
2. Find the exact hard drive and replace the mainboard, then try to power on the drive, and move your ---steaming pile of meadow muffin--- off as fast as you can.
Or
3. Buy a new drive (not a ---steaming pile of meadow muffin--- Seagate) and source the roms again. [Don't ask]
This is a good lesson on why there is backup solutions available and why we (who do backups at work) always forget at home and lose our ---steaming pile of meadow muffin---. I might have about 4 sets of my collection stored on sealed hard drives, just because of this very reason.
mo1e:
Well harddrive are cheap enough now anyways. But I take it that means if I have to get a new one then my pc will gave lost everything? Including installed programs and recent documents?
Dawgz Rule:
The hard drive in the freezer trick can sometimes work wonders. Saved the day more than a few times in my work. :cheers:
Vigo:
--- Quote from: mo1e on May 28, 2013, 09:32:10 am ---Well harddrive are cheap enough now anyways. But I take it that means if I have to get a new one then my pc will gave lost everything? Including installed programs and recent documents?
--- End quote ---
Well, yeah, all your data is on your hard drive. You get a new hard drive, nothing will remain. Not just links and programs, but the operating system itself will be gone. You will need to reinstall windows and everything.
There are various degrees of broken hard drive tho. If it is just corrupted data, you could either fix possibly fix the corrupted data, or once you have a new drive set up, you could plug in the old hard drive as a secondary disk and Pull all the data from it.
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