After coming back from the Mastodon show Saturday night (which was awesome by the way) I hooked up my Hi-MD recorder which I had recorded the show onto and went to transfer to my computer. At this moment my computer took it upon itself to restart after which it would not boot completely. After trying to boot into safe mode, and trying to repair Windows I gave up and formated my Windows partition hoping that would fix the issue. It worked fine until I installed the driver for the ATA controller card then started having the same issue.
I took open my computer to find that my hard drives are REALLY hot. I also notice that my front case can is not spinning when powered on. A long story short two of my hard drives appear to have gotten too hot and died due to the fan stopping without my knowledge. No telling how long the poor little guys worked away in the blazing heat. The awful part is that the two drives are “Music” drive which contained my entire MP3 Album collection (about 70 gigs of music) !!MY CONCERT PHOTOS!! which I had partly backed up, but not entirely. My second drive labeled “Live Music” had all my lossless live shows that I had collected over time including about 100 Tool recordings and close to 100 Nine Inch Nails recordings this will be almost impossible to relocate all of these. The worst part if losing my original concert photo files, it is nice to have it on this site in smaller images, but totally kills any ability to print any of them. I have since put my “Music” hard drive in a ziplock bag and placed it in my freezer in hopes of being able to retrieve my photos off of it. If this fails I am going to take it to some data recovery places to see if I can get any of my data back.
On a somewhat happy note I bought a 500gb SATA hard drive today from Newegg.com with a new case fan, should be here later this week.