Posted by PAW on 10/7/06 10:48pm
Msg #150973

OT: Darn it all to heck

(I actually used much stronger words.)

Hard disk drive failure. It just had to be the main server data volume, of course. And, according to Murphy, it would fail at the most inopportune time, which it did. I was in the middle of a data backup as I prepare the new desktop system and website. Have been in data recovery mode for hours. Think I need to share the agony with my family, my Old Granddad and Jack Daniels are already here to help.

Sorry for the post, just had to vent a bit.

Reply by Blueink_CA on 10/7/06 10:55pm
Msg #150974

I hate that when it happens. At least you know what to do to correct it. I just end up buying a new computer.

Reply by BarbaraL_CA on 10/7/06 11:09pm
Msg #150975

WOW Paul!!!! You vent?????
Look at the bright side - At least you HAVE data recovery

Reply by PAW on 10/7/06 11:22pm
Msg #150977

Well, at least I learned one thing from the 20 years I spent in the "Sure Hate Information Techonology" department.

Reply by PAW on 10/7/06 11:24pm
Msg #150979

Well, I think Jack and Graddad got this sucker all figgured out. Cirkit City, here we come.

Reply by BarbaraL_CA on 10/7/06 11:26pm
Msg #150980

Oh No... not the Geek Squad??? n/m

Reply by Larry/Ca on 10/8/06 12:17am
Msg #150987

My hard drive....

died about a year ago. I thought my life was over, no back-up. It makes you learn alot about computers/operating systems real fast. I simply bought a new hard drive, cheap, easy to put in and after a few days of installing software life was great. Much better than with that old virus/spyware ladden sucker I use to have. I do miss those precious pictures of my grandkids that i'll never get back. I still don't back-up my files, once a fool, always a fool. If this happens to anyone out there I strongly recommend just a new hard drive. Computers are cheap now but hard drives are even cheaper and any fool can replace them.

Sorry for the bad luck PAW, Larry

Reply by BarbaraL_CA on 10/8/06 12:54am
Msg #150988

Re: My hard drive....

" I still don't back-up my files, once a fool, always a fool."
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Well, Larry... I hope you do all your record keeping on paper and have it secured somewhere. I would be in deep doo-doo if I didn't backup by important files. It saved me when my hard drive crashed last year.

I have an external drive for backup,(Buffalo) and use the Buffalo backup utility to automatically back up my important files once a week. No effort on my part - have it set to backup every Sunday at 12AM.

Reply by Larry/Ca on 10/8/06 1:35am
Msg #150989

I do have.....

plenty, in fact piles of paper records. I never look at them, I just keep them in case my hard drive fails! The real important stuff like kids photos and my music library, which took my hours and hours to build, are very vulnerable to a technology meltdown. My record player still works and I still have all my old lp's but I never use them. I've taken more family photos with my digital camra in the last three years than I have with film in the last twenty years. I'm just a power surge away from only being left with my kodak albums. I don't know why I cannot find time to put these things to disc.

Your right Barbara. It would take me days of sorting through papers to do my taxes should technology fail me.

always a fool, Larry

Reply by Ndwa on 10/8/06 2:15am
Msg #150991

RAID is the answer

Read all about it here: http://compreviews.about.com/od/storage/l/aaRAIDPage1.htm

Not until few months ago did I learn the important of ultilizing what my computer is capable of when the HD crashed. Even with the availability of backup & data recovery, our famous wizard PAW still has to call upon uncle Jack to help ease the frustration.

HD's are cheap, I now have 4 (2 blocks at 250GB each) of them running in RAID1 along with a super-duper battery backup surge protector.

Reply by PAW on 10/9/06 6:08pm
Msg #151211

Re: RAID is the answer

Yep, GeekSquad store (BestBuy) has the Maxtor 200Gb USB 2.0 external hard drives on sale for under $100. I remember when you couldn't touch a 20Mb hard drive for less than $100. If car values paralleled computer technology, you would be able to buy an Aston-Martin for that same $100.