[Boba Fett]

tikay posted:

Is there something I should know?

Hmm seems i posted this in the wrong thread

[tikay]

micim987 posted:

Are you going to make a gatespawner for it when it comes out (p.s. if any one know how to add gatespawner's please pm me).

Yes.
If you want to make your own: place gates, dhds, rings, etc. in a map and then type "stargate_creategatespawner_file" in the console. This generates a mapname.txt in \garrysmod\data\ directory. Rename it to mapname.ini and you have your gatespawner file.

[StagateManiac]

If you are not busy ,not working on the map and have time could you make a short video 1-2 mins on destiny?

[tikay]

No.

[tikay]

I'm so royally pissed of right now.
Some of you stalking me on Steam might have noticed that I was working in the Source SDK/on the map again.
Today my external HDD said FUCK YOU and refuses to work ever since. The map itself is safe on my internal HDDs, but several GBs of reference images and all the episodes are gone for good. Not to mention the other things: 10 years of music, my itunes purchases, personal stuff, etc.

The REALLY bitter part of the story? Just two hours before the catastrophe, I ordered a new 2 TB Raid 1 storage solution.... You know? "Just in case the merely 18 months old HDD might fail me in the foreseeable future."

THIS SUCKS

[Boba Fett]

That sucks man :/ I wish you the best.

[Neesk]

you got to be kidding, it sucks
oh well I think all should be fine, good luck

[Madman07]

You got really bad luck :( I would also be pissed, if I would lost my photos and music. I've got 5yo pc and everything is still working fine...

[chrishind10]

Thankfully I sync all of my important stuff with my home web/gameserver.

[[XND]Anubis]

tikay - i sent you a pm about how to fix your external HDD, i hope it works with your case... Good luck!

[dije]

In sweden we have these companies that open the HDD and copy the files manually to another disk. Try to find one, tikay! The only con is that they cost a lot. But it's worth it in your case I think.

[Madman07]

Yea, they are popular, but damn expensive.

[[XND]Anubis]

But you can find a program eg. HDD regenerator, whitch in 60% of damaged HDDs cases it's works. It costs aproximately 60$, you can find one for BitTorrent whitch is cracked. So 0$ to fix a HDD :). But dije's ideea is good too. Good luck again tikay!

[tikay]

Nope. It's no simple thing like bad sectors. The HDD doesn't even start. It's simply dead. Either the electronic circuit or the spindle motor are broken.
Of course I already searched for recovery specialists and called one of the cheapest I could find. A technician told me that in the simplest case (dead electronics), they start at 200€. Broken mechanical parts, like spindle, actuator, read/write-head, etc. need a clean room and more work, resulting in up to 800€. This doesn't even include data recovery in case the filesystem got somehow corrupted.

It's sad, but I'm not willing to spend that much money for it. I'll just store the drive away and hope the services get cheaper in the next few years.
Also, I found an old backup of my music from 2009 on another drive. So not all is lost...

[Madman07]

My suggestion is to try to buy same HDD (or atleast same brand - should have same pinout). Then simply swap electronic. It can help, it can broke electronic. But maybe worth of try.

[dije]

tikay posted:

Nope. It's no simple thing like bad sectors. The HDD doesn't even start. It's simply dead. Either the electronic circuit or the spindle motor are broken.
Of course I already searched for recovery specialists and called one of the cheapest I could find. A technician told me that in the simplest case (dead electronics), they start at 200€. Broken mechanical parts, like spindle, actuator, read/write-head, etc. need a clean room and more work, resulting in up to 800€. This doesn't even include data recovery in case the filesystem got somehow corrupted.

It's sad, but I'm not willing to spend that much money for it. I'll just store the drive away and hope the services get cheaper in the next few years.
Also, I found an old backup of my music from 2009 on another drive. So not all is lost...

If you can send it to some company in sweden, I think there's one that can do it for about 200€

[Tobba]

tikay posted:

Nope. It's no simple thing like bad sectors. The HDD doesn't even start. It's simply dead. Either the electronic circuit or the spindle motor are broken.
Of course I already searched for recovery specialists and called one of the cheapest I could find. A technician told me that in the simplest case (dead electronics), they start at 200€. Broken mechanical parts, like spindle, actuator, read/write-head, etc. need a clean room and more work, resulting in up to 800€. This doesn't even include data recovery in case the filesystem got somehow corrupted.

It's sad, but I'm not willing to spend that much money for it. I'll just store the drive away and hope the services get cheaper in the next few years.
Also, I found an old backup of my music from 2009 on another drive. So not all is lost...

The drive itself might still be intact, just the enclosure eletronics saying fuck you
In alot of external drives you can take the drive inside it out and use it like a internal HDD

[tikay]

Madman07 posted:

My suggestion is to try to buy same HDD (or atleast same brand - should have same pinout). Then simply swap electronic. It can help, it can broke electronic. But maybe worth of try.

That works with older devices, but nowadays the chances are extremely low without tampering with the on-chip software.

Tobba posted:

The drive itself might still be intact, just the enclosure eletronics saying fuck you
In alot of external drives you can take the drive inside it out and use it like a internal HDD

Yeah, I was talking about the electronics on the underside of the HDD itself, not the parts belonging to the external case.

[reflez]

had this same problem, but it can be salvaged!
take the disk out and mount it into a old computer, copy and done!
or attach a new cable to it incase the power supply from the cable was at fault (it happens)

[tikay]

How often do I have to repeat it? THE HDD ITSELF IS DEAD, NOT THE EXTERNAL CASE.

[micim987]

Hope is done soon im a huge fan of the stargate series. But im not trying to rush you.

[chrishind10]

tikay posted:

How often do I have to repeat it? THE HDD ITSELF IS DEAD, NOT THE EXTERNAL CASE.

Get a multimeter and check if the motor is getting any juice while its switched on

[Lord Hayden II]

tikay posted:

How often do I have to repeat it? THE HDD ITSELF IS DEAD, NOT THE EXTERNAL CASE.

Some people are so stupid.

Use a defibrillator.



Problem solved.

[tikay]

chrishind10 posted:

Get a multimeter and check if the motor is getting any juice while its switched on

That would require me to open the HDD and expose the platters and head to the room air. Dust is something you don't want in your HDD. That's like playing a disc record in a sandstorm.

[punkrjp]

It can't be that bad, unless you live in a sandstorm, of course.

[chrishind10]

tikay posted:

That would require me to open the HDD and expose the platters and head to the room air. Dust is something you don't want in your HDD. That's like playing a disc record in a sandstorm.

Considering the motor contacts are exposed on the bottom of the HDD, no...

[blazingfly]

ITT: People who don't know anything about HDDs trying to solve problems with HDDs?

[tikay]

punkrjp posted:

It can't be that bad, unless you live in a sandstorm, of course.

One dust particle can be enough. If the head hits it and jumps, a headcrash can damage the platter. And in case the head stays misaligned permanently, I'd be extra screwed.

chrishind10 posted:

Considering the motor contacts are exposed on the bottom of the HDD, no...

You mean the four exposed soldering joints where the circuit board connects to the motor?
In this case, I'd need to buy a multimeter and learn how to use it.

[Madman07]

It's not going to help tikay if he never played with electronic. It's the best just to give it to some friend/company that knows what he/they are doing, so less possibility for data lost.

[locutus_1]

ughh i hate the reliability on hdd drives i swear they fail more often now then they did way back when..

if i could afford it i would get those ssd drives.... btw thanks tipkay for letting me borrow an image or two for my tag in cap ;_)

Edited:

tikay posted:

One dust particle can be enough. If the head hits it and jumps, a headcrash can damage the platter. And in case the head stays misaligned permanently, I'd be extra screwed.


You mean the four exposed soldering joints where the circuit board connects to the motor?
In this case, I'd need to buy a multimeter and learn how to use it.

just buy yourself a new drive its not worth fixin these.. maybe if you got another controller the pcb's are interchangable but by that time its not worth it just get a 500 gig for around 40 usd off ebay and replace it

[Iziraider]

I've been using computers for about 8 years or so, and I didn't see an hdd fail so far.

[Boba Fett]

I would say 2 locations to store - online and external hdd so you'll always got 2 locations you can get your files from.

[micim987]

Oh i get it Hard Drive Disk

[tikay]

locutus_1 posted:

ughh i hate the reliability on hdd drives i swear they fail more often now then they did way back when..

if i could afford it i would get those ssd drives.... btw thanks tipkay for letting me borrow an image or two for my tag in cap ;_)

Edited:

just buy yourself a new drive its not worth fixin these.. maybe if you got another controller the pcb's are interchangable but by that time its not worth it just get a 500 gig for around 40 usd off ebay and replace it

I already bought a new one, as I stated above, only 2 hours before the shit hit the fan.
A 1 or 2 TB SSD would be sweet, but is simply not affordable. I have a 120GB SDD for Windows and apps, though.

And again, a PCB change might work, or might not, as the platters may be tuned to the chips on newer drives.

Iziraider posted:

I've been using computers for about 8 years or so, and I didn't see an hdd fail so far.

It can happen any time. I've been using computers for ~15 years or more and I never experienced a HDD failure first hand. Yesterday a coworkers HDD crashed and another one told us his drive went apeship only a week ago. Maybe I picked up a HDD crashing aura. Or them.

Boba Fett posted:

I would say 2 locations to store - online and external hdd so you'll always got 2 locations you can get your files from.

Two HDDs in a Raid 1 array are sufficient. As long as Lady Luck doesn't decide to let both HDDs break at the same time, let my home burn to the ground or let other natural disasters wreak havoc on my hardware and soul.


You know what? Let's just drop the topic.

Edited:

micim987 posted:

Oh i get it Hard Drive Disk

Actually, Hard Disk Drive, but close enough.

[StagateManiac]

Oh wow a whole week and nobody wrote anything

[punkrjp]

Silence is gold.

[Lantian]

punkrjp posted:

Silence is gold.

unless its an update

[twilson]

punkrjp posted:

Silence is gold.

gold-en

[JoelM935]

Is this map going to be released or has it been scrapped?

[Flyboi]

JoelM935 posted:

Is this map going to be released or has it been scrapped?

Indeed, of course it will be released. Tikay and myself were running around, swapping bodies with stones and shooting each other on this very map, mere hours ago.