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submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by Chainweasel@lemmy.world to c/memes@lemmy.ml

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My OS is on a 512gb M.2 drive, but the main storage on my laptop was a 1TB HDD, it started making noise about 2 weeks ago so I backed everything up onto a 1TB SanDisk USB SSD. This afternoon it got very clicky when I booted it up after work and icons for a few games I had stored on it, like KSP and YUZU, disappeared from the desktop and taskbar.

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[-] wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 67 points 4 months ago

main storage [...] was

oh no

I backed everything up

OH YEAH 🥤

[-] Chainweasel@lemmy.world 22 points 4 months ago

I was not fucking around 😂.
It started to sound like someone put a baseball card on a bike wheel and I had it packed full of mostly TV shows and moves I didn't want to download again lol.

[-] Gormadt 12 points 4 months ago

Some of your data may have still been borked BTW

It's best practice to maintain a backup

I'm better at it than I used to be but unfortunately I lost a lot of data to learn that lesson

My drive started ticking a long time ago, I thought I successfully saved my data but when I dug through the drive a bunch of directories were full of broken files