Disaster narrowly avoided

mitchkenn · 10-11-2020, 03:21 PM

Got up this morning and did a bit of editing/trading to one of my teams. And suddenly my external HD (which has my back-ups as well as tons of misc. OOTP folders) started dropping off and on. ran a check with my HD analyzer - bad sectors!!!!

but it would work for about 1 oe 2 maybe 3 mins at a time before falling off the cliff. So i bought another external HD, and spent the entire day moving files one or two at a time. And amazingly, i got all the essential stuff moved eventually. Edgad, i don't know how or why the old HD got so ill over night, but at least everything essential was able to be moved. Think i'll put a duplicate of all these files on another HD just in case.....

so all in all - a disaster avoided and on we go this evening to more edits and trades --- WhoooHOooo!!!

BillyBall · 10-13-2020, 08:34 AM

Feels better than sex.

Ty Cobb · 10-13-2020, 11:02 AM

Great that you salvaged.

10-11-2020, 03:21 PM	#1
mitchkenn Hall Of Famer Join Date: Jan 2015 Location: Oregon, not by design Posts: 2,872	Disaster narrowly avoided Got up this morning and did a bit of editing/trading to one of my teams. And suddenly my external HD (which has my back-ups as well as tons of misc. OOTP folders) started dropping off and on. ran a check with my HD analyzer - bad sectors!!!! but it would work for about 1 oe 2 maybe 3 mins at a time before falling off the cliff. So i bought another external HD, and spent the entire day moving files one or two at a time. And amazingly, i got all the essential stuff moved eventually. Edgad, i don't know how or why the old HD got so ill over night, but at least everything essential was able to be moved. Think i'll put a duplicate of all these files on another HD just in case..... so all in all - a disaster avoided and on we go this evening to more edits and trades --- WhoooHOooo!!! __________________ "This is my opening farewell " - Jackson Browne “They make a desolation and call it peace.” ― Agha Shahid Ali "Maybe she just has to sing, for the sake of the song - And who do I think that I am to decide that she's wrong." - Townes Van Zandt "I saw a young man leaning on his wooden crutch - He called out to me, 'Don't ask for so much' And a young woman leaning in her darkened door She cried out to me, 'Why not ask for more?' " - Leonard Cohen "Hello darkness, my old Friend ...." - Paul Simon Before Mays, before DiMaggio, there was Oscar Charleston. "All the lies about Babe Ruth are true." - Waite Hoyt Avatar is the late great Townes Van Zandt. rip.

10-13-2020, 11:02 AM	#3
Ty Cobb Hall Of Famer Join Date: Mar 2013 Location: Grayling, MI Posts: 4,601	Great that you salvaged. __________________ "You could not live with your own failure. Where did that bring you? Back to me." Thanos

10-13-2020, 08:34 AM	#2
BillyBall Minors (Rookie Ball) Join Date: Jun 2020 Posts: 32	Feels better than sex.