emusonacid!

My IDE internal drive is noisy anyway, but on top of that it's started clicking while it's on. Very odd. At least, I think it's the drive. Could be the fan?

Anyone know how to transfer the contents of the drive to another drive? That way I could replace it and maybe keep it around as a backup (occasionally mirror the other drive onto it?)...


Thanks!

ack.. that doesn't sound good at all. When a drive clicks it usually means the drive has problems and could go down at any moment. I don't mean to scare you though I had that exact same thing happen to a 20gb drive I had in my emu a couple years ago. I was not impressed. I loaded the sampler one day and from then on the drive would no longer be recognized or load.

The only thing I can think off to back it up would be to install EOS 4.7.. even if it is just temporary to get the FAT support enabled and then dump to a zip drive or some sort of external storage unit so you can then transfer to your computer and back up to a cd/dvdr or something.

hope that helps and sorry for your troubles.

agree with this dude up there !!

Back that shit up asap man, that disk may be showing some signs of crashing (serious head failure). When it does the heads basically seize up and cause considerable damage to the platters such as large gouges. Data is rarely irretrievable, i have heard stories that may sound far fetched where placing the drives in the freezer over nite can in rare cases get the disk to spin up an provide u with enuff time back ya data up. Please don't let it get to that stage.

Get a Seagate Barracuda the ones with the 8 meg cache. They have Fluid Dynamic Bering heads, very silent and have a 3 year warranty. The 2 meg cache drives have a 1 year warranty. Spend the extra for the additional warranty. IDE disks arent as robust as SCSI disks.

Laytherz mun

The easiest and cheapest short term solution I can think of is to get a cheap external scsi drive from ebay or something - don't spend much - just get enough to backup the entire drive. Should just be able to do the backup with a couple of clicks in Disk/Browse.

Thanks for the advice. I just bought a 50gb external Seagate Barracuda for $99 on eBay. Should do the trick... I'll just use both drives (save back and forth between them) until one of 'em goes :)