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Well I think that may have been a close call.
We've been seeing niggles on the machine in the living room for some time. Odd little things like game lockups requiring the disk to be checked on reboot and audio cut outs. We tried to watch something on LoveFilm the other afternoon and it was totally unwatchable and stuttery. Powering off for a reboot revealed the dreaded disk check screen on which it duly froze for a couple of hours at 47%. Giving up on the disk check we pulled the power and tried again, this time the OS failed to launch.
A third attempt got us in and to the XMB where we managed to make a full backup.
Now with a new larger disc and the system restored we can see we were close to losing it all as there are odd items here and there that are corrupt upon restore. Still, no audio cut outs and all the save data is a considerably lucky escape. I'm still raw over losing my Rainbow 6 Vegas protected save and really didn't want to have to go through that again. We only have one Plus subscription which Andy uses to transfer saves between the two machines, I run the gauntlet of failure.
The moral of the story is backup what you can often.
Abs

We've been seeing niggles on the machine in the living room for some time. Odd little things like game lockups requiring the disk to be checked on reboot and audio cut outs. We tried to watch something on LoveFilm the other afternoon and it was totally unwatchable and stuttery. Powering off for a reboot revealed the dreaded disk check screen on which it duly froze for a couple of hours at 47%. Giving up on the disk check we pulled the power and tried again, this time the OS failed to launch.


Now with a new larger disc and the system restored we can see we were close to losing it all as there are odd items here and there that are corrupt upon restore. Still, no audio cut outs and all the save data is a considerably lucky escape. I'm still raw over losing my Rainbow 6 Vegas protected save and really didn't want to have to go through that again. We only have one Plus subscription which Andy uses to transfer saves between the two machines, I run the gauntlet of failure.
The moral of the story is backup what you can often.

Abs