Database problems

panda234 · 12-11-2024, 01:30 PM

Blew up a hard drive when OOTP crashed on me. Not happy...

OutS|der · 12-11-2024, 10:36 PM

how do you blow up a hard drive? Wouldn't logic tell you that your hard drive blowing up is what caused the crash not the other way around

panda234 · 12-12-2024, 12:09 AM

[QUOTE=OutS|der;5151142]how do you blow up a hard drive?

I don't know. I managed to get the drive back by cycling the power, but it crashed again when I tried to access the folder with the database. I deleted the dat files, moved everything else off the drive, reformatted and put the folders back using the backup dat files and it's working fine.

OutS|der · 12-12-2024, 11:02 AM

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Originally Posted by OutS|der

how do you blow up a hard drive?

I don't know. I managed to get the drive back by cycling the power, but it crashed again when I tried to access the folder with the database. I deleted the dat files, moved everything else off the drive, reformatted and put the folders back using the backup dat files and it's working fine.

I'm assuming you have some bad sectors. Drive could be failing. That or the controller on the MB is dying. I've had both happen.

I'd be careful saving anything important on that drive and look at replacing it ASAP

panda234 · 12-12-2024, 03:50 PM

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I'm assuming you have some bad sectors. Drive could be failing. That or the controller on the MB is dying. I've had both happen.

I'd be careful saving anything important on that drive and look at replacing it ASAP

I used to be a computer tech so know my way around. My original post was pretty spicy and I couldn’t delete it so I watered it down. But yes, I was mad and jumped to a conclusion without really confirming it.

OutS|der · 12-12-2024, 04:25 PM

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I used to be a computer tech so know my way around. My original post was pretty spicy and I couldn’t delete it so I watered it down. But yes, I was mad and jumped to a conclusion without really confirming it.

Now I want the spicy version

panda234 · 12-12-2024, 06:16 PM

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Now I want the spicy version

AESP_pres · 12-12-2024, 09:32 PM

[QUOTE=OutS|der;5151250]

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Originally Posted by panda234

Now I want the spicy version

I saw it... but since he's a long time member I took the post for a "I really need to vent" one and not a typical "that game suck!!!" by the usual suspects

12-11-2024, 01:30 PM	#1
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12-11-2024, 10:36 PM	#2
OutS\|der Hall Of Famer Join Date: Apr 2010 Location: In A Van Down By The River Posts: 2,722 Infractions: 0/1 (1)	how do you blow up a hard drive? Wouldn't logic tell you that your hard drive blowing up is what caused the crash not the other way around

12-12-2024, 12:09 AM	#3
panda234 Major Leagues Join Date: Oct 2018 Posts: 322	[QUOTE=OutS\|der;5151142]how do you blow up a hard drive? I don't know. I managed to get the drive back by cycling the power, but it crashed again when I tried to access the folder with the database. I deleted the dat files, moved everything else off the drive, reformatted and put the folders back using the backup dat files and it's working fine.