well apparently my MFT on my 2nd hard drive is corrupt and i cant access anything on the drive..n nwhich is where i keep basically ALL my files.. n nso it seems like ive lost everything.. :( this could very well be the end of plugins from me

drive doesnt show up in diskkeeper...n nif all else fails, ill have to try running spinright or whatever thats called.. tho my brother tells me it took 30hrs to run on his pc, then just said it couldnt repair it lol

ok after a all night scan with spin rite.. no luck..n n nok next thing.. a scan of the drive with a diff program.. 18hrs at least...n n nthen from there, the actual recovery of files.. which just finished :D 155357 files lol.. and it appears like everything is all intact and just dandy :D n n nnow i just need to reformat the drive, and run WD's diagnostic scan on it.. thats like 18-20hrs too i think lol..noh well.. theres progress

lol thank god it wasnt one of my externals.. especially the 320gb thats only got 20gb free (minus the space it steals.. is about 275 280ish of files i think)n nnow im planning on getting a 500gb internal to replace the 180gb.. then use the 180gb to backup important stuff

lol im big on live music.. nnso i have TONS of lossless live shows.. got copies of every show/festival ive been too except like 2 or 3.. tons of phish & trey anastasio.. as well as a lot of early grateful dead (early as in 65-69) and just tons of other assorted shows.. and being lossless formats (flac, shorten...) a single show can easily be over a gig..nnnbut i also have tons of other crap.. probably one of the most extensive psychedelic material collections around lmao.. soooo many hard to find videos, audio, etc and shit

well the hard drive is definitly dying...nnwhat shit lol, spent days copying all the files BACK over to it after reformatting it.. nnnow its acting up again.. takes 4 or 5 bootups till it even gets recognized.. it randomly stops working after I finally get the damn thing to even work at all... and when it does work.. reading or writing to it.. it will slow down.. stutter a few times.. and then work fine for a minute before stuttering again.. its especially noticable running music, or video files .. or playing games.. then the same files are totally smooth when running them off the other drive.. nnran chkdsk overnight (took forever.. idk.. it ran for about 5 or 6 hours before i went to bed and it was only 33% on step 4, and it was 20% about 3 or 4 hours earliar lol) and it found a ton of problems.. and of course its attempt at fixing the problems is just deleting the data in those sectors and telling me that not only do the errors still exist, but that it has also deleted some of my files..nnso i bought a 500gb drive today.. nnonly problem is its a SATA drive and my pc needs IDE or whatever.. and of course not a single store around here has any adaptors in stock.. so i had to order one online.. which means i wont be able to do anything for like a week probably.. nnso ya.. cya in a few years :P

just great....nnnmore f'n bullshit..nnnhad to reformat my primary drive today.. :(

well everything seems to be running good now...nni think the main reason i to reformat my primary (the 500gb drive i just got is my secondary drive...) was because something got all messed up at some point during the 100 lockups before i replaced the hard drive cable.. nnso hopefully.. if i can make it a week with no more problems i just might be all set hehheennntho i still need to figure out why my modem goes on a infinite reboot loop when i turn windows firewall off

heh it seems ive fixed the firewall/rebooting modem problem too now..nnnso hopefully everything will go smoothly now..