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Topic: Well boys...

It's been fun....

I'm sorry to say that my Hard Drive has bit the big tomato, and my computer is down for the count. I'll save the old HD, in case some rich guy gives me enough money to try and recover several years worth of emails, some programs I never burned to CD, and a crapload of games I was organizing to burn to CD and didn't before it flaked out.

I lost a handful of DOGA models (mostly Wardogs stuff) since my last backup CD was done in April (which I dearly hope was AFTER the last Iron Stars supplement).

A friend from work has given me an old Emachine that he no longer uses, so I can scavenge the HD from that, but I don't plan on any more serious forays into 3D land until I can afford to get another new HD. It will likely be a while before I can, as I had to buy another car - the van ate it's third  transmission died mere days prior to the HD going out.

It's been a fun last few weeks.
:-/ :x

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Re: Well boys...

Well...now I know where Murphy has been hangin out Mike.  Bugger mate...got a couple scrap machines in storage myself...but I doubt their HD's are large enough to do any good. sad

  • From: Denver, CO
  • Registered: 2005-03-27
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Re: Well boys...

thedugan wrote:

I lost a handful of DOGA models (mostly Wardogs stuff) since my last backup CD was done in April (which I dearly hope was AFTER the last Iron Stars supplement).

Ick.

Sorry to hear it... and I hope the MJ12 art department is back up and running soon.

smile

Daniel Kast
Majestic Twelve Games
cricket@mj12games.com

mj12games's Website

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A guy at work gave me an old Emachine with an operable 20 Gig HD. I'd mentioned that my HD had failed, and he just brought it in the next day. It had a CDRW drive that had failed, and his wife had to have it for something she did (at work I'm assuming). It also has a VERY slow motherboard/processor for nowadays - 800 Mhz. Nice little case, might just use this for a later machine - with all new innards

I promptly gave the Emachine a 'hard_drive-ectomy', and got windows 98 on it - still installing drivers and such. I wanted 98 because it can run Warcraft 2, which I still like to play (I've got Warcraft3, and it kicks my A**). It also gives me a FAT32 partition, as I've had issues with NTFS - not as many (free) file system utilities support it, and I'm able to boot into 98 and delete spam that's hidden from me in Win2000 because of it's security features. Obviously, I'm going to dual boot 2000/98...

I'll still be slowing down my overall gaming/computer activities, but I'll be up in a week or two - then I'll know just how big a hickey I got in regards to MJ12 projects.

In a few months, I still plan on getting a second hard drive.

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Progress Report from the MJ12 Art Department...

Well, I still lost those games, and some MP3's, and some emails that I'm unlikely to have ever actually needed, but the MJ12 designs are all there from the last supplement. I seem to recall being concerned as to the number of times I was having to 're-install windo$$', and so backed them up on CD.

I'll have to go and find the parts for some, as even though the models and parts are in the same directories as previously, the program still couldn't find them. ??? Going through and finding the 'lost bits' is easy, but annoying.

I did loose some of the Wardogs prototypes I was working on, and some Martians that I was really fond of, but nothing that I couldn't reproduce by looking at a rendering of it....

On that note, If anyone on the board has any pictures I've sent them, I'd appreciate it if you'd send me copies so I can see if I want to reproduce them. I'm especially interested in that Martian saucer with the 'arm cannon', and the latest Wardogs I sent out.

I have Emule searching for the mp3's and PDF's I lost - and YES, I own originals - I just like having electronic copies to save on the wear and tear on my old cassette tapes and books. Some of them are 'out of print' for decades.

Todd, could you send me that animated gif with Picard, Riker, and Data?

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I have all the wardogs you've sent me Mike.  No problem in kickin 'em back...if you don't mind having to wait til the weekend. Work has me doin a lot of OT this week. :?

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go0gleplex wrote:

I have all the wardogs you've sent me Mike.  No problem in kickin 'em back...if you don't mind having to wait til the weekend. Work has me doin a lot of OT this week. :?

No Hurry, I'm doing a fair amount myself, as I have a new(ish) car to pay for now.

  • Registered: 2005-04-03
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Re: Well boys...

Depending on just how badly munged the old HD is (logical problem with the file structure vs. physical drive failure), you can buy a piece of software like Runtime's GetDataBack (for NTFS or FAT) and see about recovery some or all of it. I had to buy a copy of it a year or so ago in order to recover data off of a client's HD that died and reverted to a RAW volume during defragmentation.

It works pretty good. Just hook up the new HD to a computer with the software installed, then after it checks your drive for recoverable files you can go through and sort out what to recover.

-Tyrel

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Re: Well boys...

Tyrel Lohr wrote:

Depending on just how badly munged the old HD is (logical problem with the file structure vs. physical drive failure), you can buy a piece of software like Runtime's GetDataBack (for NTFS or FAT) and see about recovery some or all of it. I had to buy a copy of it a year or so ago in order to recover data off of a client's HD that died and reverted to a RAW volume during defragmentation.

It works pretty good. Just hook up the new HD to a computer with the software installed, then after it checks your drive for recoverable files you can go through and sort out what to recover.

-Tyrel

Thanks for the tip!

I'll give that a go before taking it to a 'professional', but both are a ways off.
:-)

I'm in workable shape now, and nothing lost was worth spending a lot of money to recover. I've got all the Iron Stars stuff, and that's all that's worth worrying about.

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Well, I'm alomost sure I've got most of the programs installed and ready to run that I can bear to run - but Bryce (there's a free version that I managed to snag floating about), Daz Studio and Poser (imagine that, the company had to do something to keep Bryce at bay and released a version of it for free, too) and all that will have to wait - just not enough room for all those high-res UV maps and such...only 20 gigs.

..imagine 20 gigs of HD space 10 years ago.
:-)

Off to model me some Mecha...