Unfortunate News...

I'm not sure if anyone has really noticed how little I've been on this site over the last 2 months, but in any case, here is the bad news:

My computer's hard drive basically self-destructed at the beginning of January, and unfortunately, I did not have a single one of my in-progress coasters backed up, aside from "Cataclysm 2" which I had luckily sent off for test-riding.

So that means that I have basically lost a good three years of work on all of my Hard Hat projects. Hundreds of hours of track work, object creation, and three near-finished coasters all went down the drain. So, basically, this is a post to let everyone know that all of my previous coaster projects are officially canceled, specifically my in-progress-forever mega-projects "Lava Blast" and "The Rockler 2." Plus I also lost my near-complete Intamin rocket "Rage," my also nearly-complete hypothetical entry to the Coaster War contest, and at least 5 other coasters from the Adrenaline Land project and other half-complete ones that I was planning on finishing.

So, yeah, pretty much I'm just sharing my own disappointment. This sucks, and I feel like an idiot.

Damn. That sucks big time.

[Coasterkidmwm]

A Macbook? I know 3 people with a Macbook that had their harddrive die within 4 hours of ownership.

EDIT: Hours should be years, I was distracted when writing this.

Nope, it's not. It's a Compaq 6715b, which is usually one of the most reliable business notebooks out there, which is why I wasn't prepared for it to crash like it did.

[Mikey]

What did we learn from this?

I pity the fool who doesn't back his poop up!

[Turbo]

Originally posted by Coasterkidmwm

A Macbook? I know 3 people with a Macbook that had their harddrive die within 4 hours of ownership.

lol I can add 2 more to that


anyway, that sucks major.

Wow, that does suck.

Glad to hear you didn't lose anything good man.

[Coasterkidmwm]

Too bad jesus wasn't there to help your computer.

[slosprint]

[Dirk_Ermen]

Too bad to hear that CJD. I know how much it sucks to lose hard work. (I had the same problem a couple years ago... Luckily half of my stuff was backed up.)

Good luck at your new projects. And hopefully you've learned from this mistake. Backup your rides every once in a while!

Serious bummer. I had a drive die and take more than a year of my life with it a log time ago...

Now I have an inexpensive 120gb usb drive I carry around with me and backup my Lenovo with, though it's been a rock-solid workhorse. At home the media server has a 1tb external drive the portable drive gets synced to once a week. When we leave the house for more than a day the terabyte drive get's moved to a very safe place.

Sounds paranoid, but if I loose all the families digital photos my wife will do things to me that Clive Barker would find disturbing.

Originally posted by Coasterkidmwm

Too bad jesus wasn't there to help your computer.

Nope... only Santa Christ does that.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSLVgP79iaA

[Oscar]

Originally posted by dcs221

Wow, that does suck.

Glad to hear you didn't lose anything good man.

Why the diss man? You saying his tracks sucked? I am disappointed in you. [V]

For those who lack a sense of humor and general intelligence, yes that's what I was saying.

[Coasterkidmwm]

Well his tracks were some of the most over-hyped things I have ever seen in my life. They were like the precursor to the emo tracks.

Meh... whatever. Don't worry about it. I just don't care anymore. If I make any more tracks, they will just be for my own amusement, and not to be the "Best thing ever, OMG! Please give me a 10!"

Sorry to hear you lost all those tracks cjd. I had a hard drive go out on me but that was a long time ago and I didn't have anything important on it. I always back up my tracks on a CD. I don't trust hard drive backups or those new USB media chips. They say the life of a hard drive is only 5 years if your lucky. Hang in there!

I dont even bother putting stuff on my hard drive. I just put everything on a flash disk that ive set as my documents.

[Oscar]

I'd had this web site's hard drive go out on me! I should do a backup, I can't remember where I left the latest one.

Originally posted by MrPhilly

I dont even bother putting stuff on my hard drive. I just put everything on a flash disk that ive set as my documents.

That will dramaticly reduce the flash drives life, but i guess they are so cheep nowadays

[Coasterkidmwm]

It's okay he just asks daddy for a new one so it isn't a problem for him.

[slosprint]

^ Nice new title! lol.

Was war die Geschichte? im Deutsch und im nicht sehr gut Englisch

[Dirk_Ermen]

Originally posted by Rickrollercoaster

Was war die Geschichte? im Deutsch und im nicht sehr gut Englisch

Entschuldigung f?????????r meiner schlechte deutsch...

Warum sprechen sie off-topic? Diese topic geht nicht ?????????ber Geschichte... Und wir wollen das unsere members Englisch sprechen auf dem website.
Sie konnte babelfish gebrauchen f?????????r eine Englische ?????????bersetzung.

[slosprint]

I would attempt to translate except it would come out like this: