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[whoneedsoxygen]

jesus. somebody kill me.

in a bizarre chance to take my mind off of things i've decided to fix my server.

bought a new NIC.

The NIC works.

hard drive...does not exist.

i give up.

Comments

[dunsany]

What specifically happened? Hard-drive died? Controller died? Error messages?

[whoneedsoxygen]

Lightning strike, blew out everything I own!

When I boot up the computer, it just hangs searching for a hard drive, tried the same drive in another computer, same result.

The hard drive is spinning but isn't being recognized. And I have no backups! :(

[dunsany]

Lighting? For real. Did you offend Zeus with your blog?

Bummer. I have one of these dealie-boppies that I use with questionably dead drives.

http://the-gadgeteer.com/review/usb_2_0_to_ide_cable_version_2

But if you've fried the electronics... well.

[whoneedsoxygen]

Apparently, I offended Zeus on so many levels. The rundown:

Wired Router
Wireless AP
Every Cat5 cable (how does that happen??)
3 NICS
32 inch TV
1 DVD player
Nintendo WII
Server HD

And here's the worst part:
Mac Mini -blown network card!

Thank you for pointing me to the usb to IDE cable. I'm going to buy it and give it a whirl. Thank you for your input!

[whoneedsoxygen]

I'm still grieving the idea of losing 6 years of my weblog!

[rebelreject]

= ( is this why you haven't replied to me on MySpace?

[whoneedsoxygen]

technically so! Because all of my stuff on MySpace gets sent to my jessica[at]whoneedsoxygen.net address, and because my server is down, i can't get mail at that address any more. Nor can I change my email address.

I'll check though and respond