Hey guys..

Check front-page news..

sh*t

F*** that sucks.

I posted a comment. And I really hope the best for ya guys.

I'm very sad to hear this, but good to know you didn't loose everything. Best of luck with starting over again.

totally sucks..... i know if any one can pull through its the Rune Storm team. good luck.

good thing you didnt lose bw completly

That's bad, really bad, glad you guys didn't lost it all completetly. But that was some really bad news.

Man... this bites... Fortunately they seemed to have been a bit better prepared than some people for something like this.

Anyways, I'm terribly sad to hear this... I wish you guys luck on your recovery.

Now might be a good time to mention that this would be a time where donations would really be appreciated.

Bad news, pain in the ass news, but not devestating.

Worst case is that they have to do the patch from scratch, and some map stuff they were busy with (textures etc.). There is a test patch floating around which hopefuly they can recover from.

You know what sucks even more? All the data you guys "lost" is still on the hard drive, you just lack the gadgets to extract it.

There are companies that can do that for you, but I'm willing to bed you'd have to pay way out the ass for it.

Yeah, this kind of stuff should really be just free software.

As far as I know, the method of extracting data from dead hard drives has little to do with software, so I doubt it can possibly be free.

Guess your right.

I know of something, saw it on Call for Help, its called Spinwrite i think, and from what i remember it does exactly this, regains files from crashed harddrives and i think it only costs 29.99 Canadian (or US).

the drive in question was formatted after all the beef.. data was all corrupted.. drive wasn't unreadable

But anyway.. mahor losses were DC's c++ code, BW patch and accompanying feature tracker, about 100 map textures, and some sponsored stuff

But we'll recover, and get to more important things, quicker than ever

Thanks guys..

How did you guys format a dead HDD?

I'm sorry to hear about your luck. Best wishes in trying to recover.

drive was corrupt not dead

Heh, I thought they said it died. Because formatting a dead hard drive is like asking a zombie to solve an algebra math problem.

Well.... if it was Einstein before it was a zombie it might be able to do it if you give it flesh for doing it right... preferably that flesh over there (points to raw steak).

I'm sorry to hear about this event but if anybody can recover from a disaster its got to be the Runestorm team


Einstein zombie

Initial thought was along this line...
Same end effect anyway....
Something went horribly wrong with that drive....but anyway they're on their way back to getting all up and running again....just to try and do some catch up now

yep.. and now i see UT3 in November.. we gotta move now

Wow that's pretty messed up but, I'm sure you guys will recover

BTW,any one else find it ironic and slightly amusing that right below the headline
"Bad News" is the Headline
"No News Is Good News"

mmm.. nasty irony!!

Heh, I hadn't noticed that. That's the irony of the month.