MAKE A BACKUP!

[Frazer]

Here is the story....

 

A few weeks ago I bought a new computer and yes, with two 2TB HDD in RAID 1, because I know man should have a backup. I thought, as soon as I have my computer I would copy the 900GB from my 2 year old external hard drive and be safe.

 

Guess what happend........2 days before I received my new computer I accidently switched off the power (not by the button) of my external HDD and the disk became useless. It was impossible to access the drive through windows or any other OS.

 

---Only after you lose it you realize how important your files are---

 

So, I send my disk to a data recovery service and after the diagnose they told me there was a bad sector on the disk and almost all of my data can be recovered.

 

Great!

 

You think?

 

Diagnose: 98,-

New HDD: 149,-

Data recovery: 730,41

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Total: € 977,41 :huh:

 

Now figure....how many 1TB disks can you get for that amount of money?

 

They say it often......back up, back up.......

 

Seriously, if you don't, GET A BACKUP DISK NOW!!!

Edited February 7, 2011 by Frazer

[FVMAD]

Sorry to hear.

I had it once also, but nothing was restored, magnetic layer was ruined :(

BTW what brand it was?

[Frazer]

LaCie "Golden Disk" 1TB.....

 

(not so gold after all)

[EtherealN]

Hahah, yeah, I had an annoying episode a couple years back when I was transitioning from my C2D laptop to the C2D desktop - I was giving the laptop to my sister so I started moving everything over to the external 500GB drive and then proceeded to restore the laptop to a mint condition with fresh partitions and all of that.

 

...and then the external drive died before I had a chance to move anything into the desktop. Ah, but it's all right I think, this is just a standard internal 3.5 incher behind a USB interface, so I'll just remove it from the chassis and install it as a standard drive.

 

...nope. It was the drive motor that had died, not the USB interface. Everything was gone and I proceeded to cry for the rest of that weekend. Though fortunately it wasn't a lot worse than a bunch of Steam backups and related savegame files, so no complete disaster. (And not exactly worth spending money on a recovery service for, either.)

[Steel Jaw]

My problem is every time I buy a back up disk it mysteriously fills up with pr0n.

[HiJack]

What about blu-ray burner for backup? Prices down on blu-ray units ;)

[HiJack]

My problem is every time I buy a back up disk it mysteriously fills up with pr0n.

:D

[emenance]

http://www.amazon.com/Symantec-Backup-Recovery-Desktop-Support/dp/B002RYVR7M

 

Great system. I connect an external drive via esata connection and have a safe back up. I can restore my OS in ten minutes not ten days! I have been using this for 5 years.

[MTFDarkEagle]

My problem is every time I buy a back up disk it mysteriously fills up with pr0n.

Does your prone-to-violence-cop-wife know about this? I imagine not, as you are still alive..