paging Dodgym0n...

true story, this exact scenario happened to me about 10 years ago with a 120gb drive, huge in its day
I was pissed, but I remembered that when it was bought, a guy I worked with also bought the exact same model on the same day I got mine

I gave him a call, he confirmed he has it on him and that I should head over to give it a go
I'm driving Boondall -> Milton, I'm on the highway doing a few clicks just at the overpass before the old airport drive turn off, this truck pulls infront of me at the last second- I slam on my brakes, drive gets launched off the front seat into the dash and crash lands in the passenger foot well - shit

I get to old mates place and plug the drive in, worked fine for 30 minutes and died again, but I had enough time to get all the data onto another drive and didn't need the other pcb

That reminds me once I had just copied C&C 1 onto my 120MB (yes megabyte) HDD as in those days there were no CD burners. Otherise it would habe taken 60 x 1.44MB Floppy's to copy onto ZIP and we woulda had to several trips to do that.

Anyway so I am riding along on my pushie and this magpie swoops me and kocks me off balance so me and my HDD go arse over. The HDD skidded along the bitchemen.

Needless to say it had many bad sectors on it after that and the game didn't work either.

last edited by Dodgymon at 00:14:43 14/Feb/11

Thanks for all the feedback everyone I'm now thinking it's going to be near impossible to get a match. Got some good friends who did not backup data over 4 years and are now facing the loss of thousands of digital photo's and other fond memories.