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Stupid WD passports
also Tech Feel thread.
>>52026700
I'm sorry, are you saying that you stored something you wanted to keep on an external drive with no formal of backup? That would be irresponsible at best.
To try remedy your stupidity, the control boards have a tendency to die before the HDD. If you're lucky you can salvage the drive.
>not saving your data in the cloud
hope you learnd your lesson faggot
>>52026797
>Giving your information to Jews
>>52026700
>buying WD after the floods
You may as well not store any data in the first place
>new GPU, CPU, RAM, and motherboard arrive today
>build everything, I have done this a few times before
>it doesn't boot
>no case speaker so I can't really tell what is wrong
>swap out parts with known working parts
>motherboard is probably DOA
>decide to trouble shoot parts with old motherboard
>RAM is fine
>plug in GPU
>doesn't work the first time, wait an hour and tried again
>everything boots for 5 seconds and then a chip fries on the motherboard
>instead of having a new, shiny computer I lost my old one and I am fucked
>RMA soon, hopefully
I can't believe how down I am right now, it's fucked and I have no confidence now. Only one part has been DOA for me in the 3 times I have built a PC. I lost hope.
>>52026700
just restore from your backup
>>52028673
i bet 20 cents you forgot the mobo standoffs
>>52026700
Use ddrescue m8.
>>52029130
I fixed in 20 minutes ago just that way. I am such a retard. I would pay you if I knew you.
>he didn't buy WD Black
>he didn't backup with other WD Black hard drives
Shouldn't be a problem if you backed up your data
>>52029117
^^^^^^^^this
>>52027437
well, you know, you can encrypt data nowadays
it's not illegal anymore
>>52029130
>>52029153
Ayyyy lmaooo
>>52026700
>Stupid WD passports
No, stupid user.
All drives fail eventually. Do backups, faggot, preferably automatically.
>>52029130
>helped father build his pic
>5820, 970 etc..
>we forgot the mobo standoffs
>still werkz
fuark
>>52029189
>>52029352
It wasn't as simple as forgetting the standoffs, I lost one in the case and it shorted out everything. I don't get how my old Mobo got fried to crap though.
>>52029130
>didn't know until recently what those were for
>thought they were some screw extension thing
>current computer doesn't have them on the right side of the motherboard
>fortunately the case is indented all over the place
>>52028673
Building your computer is easy guise, I swear it's like legos
>>52029153
>done this a few times before
>doesn't put in standoffs
Should probably kill youself, that is normie level faggotry
>>52029533
>i am too retarded for legos
>>52029538
5 of them were there, one fell out and wrecked everything. The computer works fine now.
>>52026700
This is exactly how I learned to back everything up, except it was a mypassport.
Luckily all I lost was torrented shit. I should be thankful since all of the torrented games I ended up buying anyway and my movie collection was low bitrate crap.
I did have to retorrent stargate though and that was a bummer.
>>52030011
>mypassport.
mybook not mypassport
I guess the early 1.5tb wd greens were especially horrendous.
