life tilt...

so u have many pornos on it, yes?

passwords are encrypted... unless u keep them in a textfile

lol hard drives

seagate manufactures hds

hds cost $80 USD

u time + aggravation + fear = $80 USD?

u penny no limitz?

since ur ballin i suggest u get a brand new pc

LOL i just read the last post about phil ivey, so rofl!

as for the hdd, i would talk to seagate and see if they will do data recovery for you. when a hard drive fails, it's almost always a mechanical problem (i.e., there is nothing wrong with the disk itself and your data should be fine). if they won't do it and it's stuff you really need, you can look into taking it to someone.

if you're in uni/college they might have a computing center that can help you. one of my flash drives got corrupted a couple years ago and this guy who worked for the university helped me recover my data for free. otherwise you can go professional and shell out the $$. gl

you don't remember your passwords ? I always use the same one for important stuff, i made it hard to brute force and i use an other one for sites and other not important shit. But you'd better get a brand new hdd because when these bastards start failing, it will only get worse !

There's basically no risk of someone stealing your passwords when you send it back to Seagate. They'd basically check to make sure the drive didn't work, then trash it and send you a new one.

If your sole aim is to recover your data (rather than save $ on buying a new hdd) then get hold of a data recovery program. If you wanted to get it fixed and are truely worried about them taking data from you then you could recover the data you wanted, then zero wipe the hdd and send it to them after that.

For the warranty I highly doubt they bother recovering the data or even looking at your hd, other than to make sure it's not your fault, they probably junk it for parts and ship you a new one. Recovering data and fixing hds takes alot more time and money than just shipping you a new one.

I had my hard drive die on me too. They basically offer you to download this program that writes 0's and 1's on the hard drive like a million times erasing all the data for good before u send it in. If you don't want to its standard procedure for them to do that when they receive the drive anyway.

....change your passwords before you send it in?

On February 04 2008 12:54 SKoT wrote: ....change your passwords before you send it in?

listen to this man

if ur real paranoid i guess u could ask support to lock ur account for a while until u give them the go-ahead to unlock it

nm