Instrumental Anime Project

jasper-isis · Post by **jasper-isis** » Wed Dec 15, 2004 5:22 pm

I've always been curious...

How exactly do you lose a hard drive? Is it just like... the computer freezes/crashes, you restart, and the files are gone? Or corrupted? Why does that happen?

I really hope that it don't happen to me, seeing as I only have one really big hard drive to store everything. Maybe I should get a secondary...

ooshna · Post by **ooshna** » Wed Dec 15, 2004 5:31 pm

I know of a few ways. First you overclock your cpu to high and you need to default your bios (happened to me 3 times which caused me to reinstall windows) Second You partition your drive and there was an error which messed up the partition tables(fixable with data recovery software) and finally your hard drive craps out of you because of phyical damage.

NeoQuixotic · Post by **NeoQuixotic** » Wed Dec 15, 2004 6:47 pm

Nope, freezing it didn't work, it only made the clicks louder and I still no way to access my data. I can't open it because it will void my warranty, so I'm bringing it back to Best Buy to get a new one. The data I lost wasn't critical, including my current video projects. I'll just have to start over again. Its gonna be a pain to install all my games and patch them too. Well at least I learned my lesson about not backing up

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pen-pen2002 · Post by **pen-pen2002** » Wed Dec 15, 2004 7:09 pm

Wow, all the stories about people resurecting dead drives are really funny, especially this one.

It's just the sort of thing I would do. I have no technical knowlege about electronics but I love fiddling with them and seeing if I can get things to work. That's the reason I don't like laptops, you can't easily open them up and change stuff. There's also a lot of pride in doing something yourself instead of paying someone. My PS2 started giving me tons of Disk Read Errors, and I just opened it up, adjusted the knob that determins the angle of the disk and presto, no more problem.

Anyway, good luck with your drive.

Bakadeshi: I'll be able to submit a much higer quality version for the DVD than I could for the online distro because of some technical problems. I'll get it to you this weekend.

Bakadeshi [AuN Studios] · Post by **Bakadeshi [AuN Studios]** » Wed Dec 15, 2004 9:40 pm

anubisx00 wrote:Nope, freezing it didn't work, it only made the clicks louder and I still no way to access my data. I can't open it because it will void my warranty, so I'm bringing it back to Best Buy to get a new one. The data I lost wasn't critical, including my current video projects. I'll just have to start over again. Its gonna be a pain to install all my games and patch them too. Well at least I learned my lesson about not backing up .

Did you try letting it "thaw out" for 30 minutes and try accessing it again? I read on one of those forums that someone who tried this got the same results you just posted, but it worked after he let it thaw out.

If that still doesn't work, then yea I'd probably just bite my losses and return it for the replacement. Don't tell them you froze it though, some of those places will look for any excuse to void your waranty.

Yay for edit button ^^

Pen -Pen: lol that was a funnny story, something I would probably do to ;p

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Everyone else:

DVD Specifics Information:

If using TempGnc 3.0 Xpress (Free Trail downloadable from http://www.pegasys-inc.com/en/download/ ... cense.html )
WHen selecting output, use Standard Template -> DVD -> NTSC

Set:

Encode Mode: Prioritize quality
Aspect Ratio: 4:3 for full screen, 16:9 for widescreen IF you have trimmed black borders. You may also add the borders and set to 4:3, to be safe that all players will display it correctly, however it won't be maximum quality that way. I can correct this in the authoring program if it becomes a problem.
Rate control mode: VBR
Audio Format: Linear PCM

Click Select, then set:

Image Resolution: 720x480
Average video Bitrate 7998
Maximim bitrate: 8000
Number of pass: 2 pass

Click ok, and encode ^^

If Using TempGEnc 2.5, Select the NTSC DVD template, and make sure the settings match the ones above for Express 3.0

If using another Encoding software, Try to use settings as that as closely resemble the above settings as possible.
The most important ones are:

Audio: must be PCM format.
Resolution: Must be 720X480
VBR at around 8000 (or whatever is maximum for your software, I beleive the DVD format uses 8000 as maximum with PCM audio however)
Use best quality settings over speed ones. We want it to look good.

The file size should end up around 300-400 megs for most 4~5 minute videos.

If you need an encoder, buth TMPEnc 3.0 Xpress and 2.5 have a 14 day trail period that allows you to use the mpeg2 codec.
They can be obtained form Pegasys site at http://www.pegasys-inc.com

If you are not very computer literate, I recomend Xpress, since it has the easiest user interface.

Contact me on how to get it to me once it is ready.

[EDIT AGAIN]

Woops, also ment to add that if you can't submit in mpeg2 format for whatever reason, or don't feel comfortable doing it yourself, the next best thing I can think of is to submit in Xvid format using Quantizer 1 (bframes enabled) or Quantizer 2 (bframes disabled) full quality first pass, and I'll convert them for the DVD. Resolution should be the same, audio preferably in uncompressed wav, but I can also convert a high quality mp3 to PCM without much noticable loss. 320kbps or higher if using mp3.

jasper-isis · Post by **jasper-isis** » Wed Dec 15, 2004 10:49 pm

ooshna wrote:...and finally your hard drive craps out of you because of phyical damage.

Could this result from regular wear-and-tear?

NeoQuixotic · Post by **NeoQuixotic** » Thu Dec 16, 2004 12:47 am

Jasper-Isis wrote:
ooshna wrote:...and finally your hard drive craps out of you because of phyical damage.
Could this result from regular wear-and-tear?

Yeah, like anything, a hard drive will stop working sometime and someday. However, they should normally last several years if not more. I guess the hard drive I got was either messed up the day I got it, or I just had bad luck. A hard drive can easily get physically damaged since it has intricate motors and read heads that rest less than a dust particle from the actual platters themselves. Just a little jolt when its working can scrape the platter, thus destroying data and/or screwing the heads up and making the drive useless. I just never thought hard drive failure would happen so soon. I got some more links to make it more understandable. I'm just learning this too!

http://www.swstars.com/dataloss/heads.html
http://computer.howstuffworks.com/question60.htm

ooshna · Post by **ooshna** » Thu Dec 16, 2004 9:05 am

The only thing I can think of other than being bad to begin with would be a small power surge in your 12v line or something but heck if I know.

pen-pen2002 · Post by **pen-pen2002** » Thu Dec 16, 2004 12:37 pm

anubisx00 wrote:
Jasper-Isis wrote:
ooshna wrote:...and finally your hard drive craps out of you because of phyical damage.
Could this result from regular wear-and-tear?
Yeah, like anything, a hard drive will stop working sometime and someday. However, they should normally last several years if not more.

More. I've never had a HDD fail on me and I have some that have been around since the Regan administration. (Slight hyperbole.

) One caveat to this though, is that before they wear out the will become completely obsolete. I have an old HDD that's got a whopping 500 MB of space.

Org Profile · Post by **Otohiko** » Thu Dec 16, 2004 12:43 pm

pen-pen2002 wrote: I have an old HDD that's got a whopping 500 MB of space.

I got a perfectly-functional one with 20MB

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Anyways, Bakadeshi - would it be better if I sent you my highest-quality encodes (remember - I lost the HuffYUV copies a while ago) and you encoded them, or would you like me to encode them instead?

The former option will save on web traffic and ensure that I don't screw anything up, but it seems kind of lazy on my part...