GreatAlbatrossA to Casual UKEnglish · 5 months agoIt's forking Friday!message-squaremessage-square15fedilinkarrow-up123arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up123arrow-down1message-squareIt's forking Friday!GreatAlbatrossA to Casual UKEnglish · 5 months agomessage-square15fedilinkfile-text
This is a grumbling/cheering/commiserating thread for a beautiful looking friday in February. What are you up to?
minus-squareGreatAlbatrossOPAlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·5 months agoBefore doing anything, please back up that HDD. Clunking but working means “back up now, I could die any second”
minus-squareRai@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-25 months agoAs somebody who recently has their first clunky not worky HDD and tried data recovery… I am so sorry. Quick edit: it’s been a solid 20 years of non-dying HDDs though, so at least there’s that!
Before doing anything, please back up that HDD. Clunking but working means “back up now, I could die any second”
Oh it’s clunking and not working.
🙀
Yeah, I think it’s screwed. 😕
As somebody who recently has their first clunky not worky HDD and tried data recovery…
I am so sorry.
Quick edit: it’s been a solid 20 years of non-dying HDDs though, so at least there’s that!