crashed hard drive - what did you lose?

I used to experience that when i really didn't know much about how things work around the computer. Normally i would load all my files in the same partition where i load OS and when the hard drive crash i loose everything. But now i have 3 partitions on my hard drive and most of the time a partition which has the OS is the one that crashes and find that all my files are stored on the other partition. I think the worse thing that can happen when a hard drive crash is if it can crash all of it, meaning the hard drive is no more usable at all and in this case you loose everything including the drive itself. I have few scraped drives which are now unusable, and most cause of it is if you can experience power cuts while using the computer then there is high percent that you might loose it. Also i have realized that there are certain brands which can deal with things like power cuts and in this case you might only loose the information rather than the drive And there are some which cannot really stand it, Samsung for instance, 2 or 3 power cuts or power failure....the drive crash and will rent it unusable.

My last computer lost its hard drive. It was having all kinds of problems before that and kept over heating. I would repair what need fixed and then something else would go on it. Then the hard drive made a clunk and that was it. Could not even save anything from it. Luckily I had just made back ups of my data a couple of weeks before it went.

I remember sometime in the past, in my previous work, that there were few incidents of hard drive crashed. We lost so much that we had to re-encode everything. Everything transactions for the past three months, as I can remember. The good thing there was that I was able to save the working files or the program itself. We lost the data but not the program. Good thing I saved my programs in a flash disk...

I lost photos, songs, and personal files. Stuff like my resume, research papers i wrote, and other documents. Honestly i was most irritated about losing the photos because most of them i didn't have backed up on CDs or something like that. This is my 3rd computer (2 desktops, this is my 3rd but it's a laptop). So far and happily enough i didn't go through having my computer crash. But i learned lol... every once in a while i backup my files onto DVDs but i still would get irritated if it were to crash...

agree with tras! its so jinxable