Just had a strange crash

[Healer McHeal]

was loading daoc for first time in a while... and when i went to change char at char select screen, my hard drive kinda just stopped, i actually heard it clang when it did it... then it goes to load up again *whirring noise* and then i cant do anything but hit reset, just tried again and same happend, anyone think of anything barring a reinstall? i dont have the disks, never did, always dl'd it , only disks i have are my original/si lol.

 

[Raven]

if you do have to reinstall you only need the daoc.exe login.dat and update.dat, you can DL the entire game from the update server.

Though if you heard a clang from the HD it sounds as though you may well end up having to replace that.

 

[Gahn]

At a guess an hd cluster is broken and it is the one where resides your daoc installation -.- a checkdisk and defrag SHOULD solve your problem.

 

[confused]

Do you have everything backed up?

 

[Varmuus]

my hard drive kinda just stopped, i actually heard it clang... ...load up again *whirring noise* and then i cant do anything but hit reset...

Regarding to experiences I have with HDD's with weird "clang", "cling", "bing", "bang" or similar sounds, it has always been sign for me to do immediate, last additional backups. Everytime I've heard those kind of noises HDD got broken within 1week-2months.

I think u should now take what are necessary for u in your HDD (your digicam pics, docs, porns, etc) and back em up. Then try scandisk, defrag, etc.

Gl m8.

 

[Mojo]

Like everyone else is saying, Make Backups right away, if u lose that drive u lose more than a daoc install.

 

[Boni]

Like everyone else is saying, Make Backups right away, if u lose that drive u lose more than a daoc install.

/nods

 

[Healer McHeal]

ok thanks all, luckly i have a 40gb mp3 player i can chuck the important stuff on, rest can go on disks, but its the first time ever had that from a HD, tho its only my second 20gb storage HD, nothing important on there except music, which i have on the mp3+more