Complex UV Layout in Maya
Over the last couple of years UV layout in Maya has changed for the better. In this course we're going to be taking a look at some of those changes as we UV map an entire character
# 1 21-06-2003 , 11:40 AM
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This is just great!

Just what I needed....

I have 2 HDDs on my system and I had Maya installed on the slave hdd... (witch was 100GB Western Digital)... Master is a Maxtor 80GB

anyway, I come home from work and turn on my PC and I notice windows is loading VERY slow...

I had a bad feeling about that because for the past 2 days I was hearing strange noises coming from my PC... so I turned off my PC and diconnected my 100GB HDD and what do you know? My pc is fine!.... So I downloaded one of WDs Diagnostic programs and ran it and it gave me back a SMART error... in other words they said "The drive is defective and I need to replace it"

This is just great! I just lost 100GB of data that I was collecting over the past 2 years or so.... Video Tutorials, PDFs, Saved Web pages, All my SM (free) video tutorials, LOADS of pictures, and..... OMG!!!!!!!1 I just realized ALL my Music is on that DRIVE! Noooooooooooooooooooo user added image user added image user added image

I tried accessing the drive from DOS and it looked something like:

C:\ CD F:\
Data Error <cyclic redundancy check>.

C:\

This just made my day...user added image

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# 2 21-06-2003 , 01:18 PM
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Emo That sucks!user added image

a few years ago I had all my digital pics of my kids on the comp about 500 pics and I kept saying I was going to burn to disk and never did then....................

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# 3 21-06-2003 , 01:18 PM
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Ouch...

# 4 21-06-2003 , 02:22 PM
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Well the HDD is in my Freezer right now so I'll if I can recover something that way...

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# 5 21-06-2003 , 11:52 PM
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What does the feezer do exactly?

I've heard of tech folks doing that...and I've always wondered about it.

PS, don't know if this helps any, but at work I had the same error on a drive while trying to copy HUGE (2+ gig) files to another drive.

We just kept trying, and eventually, it worked.

Then we just blew away the error-prone drive once we were able to get all of the data off of it.

been working fine so far...

We are getting new drives anyway, but I just thought I would pass along our story.

PSS, don't feel so bad, I JUST got my machine up and running this very moment from a MAJOR isue with my machine myself.

I was trying to force my mobo to run XP, when lo-and-behold, it was only designed to handle 2K.

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# 6 22-06-2003 , 12:01 AM
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Is it running xp now?


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# 7 22-06-2003 , 02:00 AM
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If you don't want to spoil the surprise of finding out that Hermione is accidentally killed by Dumbledore in the new Harry Potter book, I would suggest you stop reading now.

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# 9 22-06-2003 , 02:41 AM
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DAMMIT ADL!!! hehe...

..and I was supposed to start reading the new book to Michelle today too...

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# 10 22-06-2003 , 02:42 AM
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Hal, do you mean me?

If so, no.

I just put 2K back on it today, and everything worked just fine.

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# 11 22-06-2003 , 03:17 AM
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I'm not a fan of 2k. Windows 3.1 all the way!


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# 12 22-06-2003 , 07:32 AM
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wheeeeeeee user added image

Well good news.... I was looking hopelessly and came onto a program called

Zero Assumption Recovery and it actually works!!!! user added image

I select the drive, then it scan's the file system and then I can recover the files that way...

the bad thing is that 100GB file system is not easy to scan from a half dead HDD so it takes about 7-8 hours to just scan it... user added image

but it worked beacause I just recovered some songs user added image

so I'm re scanning it again and then I'll recover the most impoartant files

P.S. Rage, well as weird as it sounds, if you freeze not working hdds, it somehow helps you get the data back,....

-Emo

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