My external hard drive, containing virtually every single thing I use for CricSim and RLSim, has died. It's making the "click of death" noise which, from my research, seems to suggest there's basically no way of recovering it, shy of spending $1000 for someone to try and fix it and most probably fail anyway. Now I had a scare like this once before (it turned out to be the casing rather than the drive) so I backed everything up when I fixed it, after realising how disastrous said drive dying would be. This would've been great.. but the drive I backed it up onto literally exploded three weeks ago. I'm going to list in this thread, everything I've lost, what it's for, and what it'll take to recreate it. Every CricSim Scorecard Used to calculate simming averages, rankings, all sorts of things. I can get them off CricSim.com/site, but they're not in the greatest format there, so it'll take a while to get them all right and named correctly. Especially for the ****s that have changed ****ing simming names. Estimated time to fix: 3 hours One Day Cricket Simulator I use it to.. simulate one day cricket. I made it myself, and although it was pretty tacky, it did the job. Estimated time to fix: 6 hours My copy of Internet Test Cricket Yep, goneskis. I'll need to get Marcuss to send me a copy. Estimated time to fix: Whenever Marcuss gets online. ITC Scorecard Evaluation Program I made this - it basically reads an ITC scorecard and figures out who scored what and bowled what etc. Estimated time to fix: 8 hours Batting/Bowling Rankings Used the base of the ITC Scorecard Evaluation Program, but applied it specifically to CricSim, weighting recent games more highly and taking into account the standard of the opposition. Also formatted it all and uploaded it for me. Estimated time to fix: 3 hours Simming Averages Program Took several factors into account including ranking, postcount etc and calculated everyone's simming averages, then transferred it into ITC database format. Estimated time to fix: 3 hours Team Ratings Program That thread I created in CricSim Central.. I'd created a program for that. Estimated time to fix: 1 hour Rugby League Simulator [/life] Estimated time to fix/finish: 30 hours RLSim Simming Averages lol. Estimated time to fix: 1 hour Still in shock tbh. Wondering if Fungus has any tips for dealing with a click of death tbh...
This isn't the first time, is it? Do you not do backups? Anyway, if there's anything that I can help with then let me know. But I doubt it.
It's not the first scare.. but it's the first time everything has really died. Yeah, but they explode, it seems.
Nah, just the click of death tbh. Apparently you can't, though, unless you spend approximately $1000 just on the off chance someone *might* be able to fix it.
This is where we round up all the Cricsim asians into a cage and don't let them out until they fix it.
But if it's only the click of death, is it a 2.5' or a 3? cause if its a 2.5 play with it yourself, by taking it apart, and seeing if there is anything thats really rusty. That way you may be able to fix it, but apparently if its a 3' you have no chance.
