you know... I still use mainly IE, for various reasons, at first it was for the google toolbar when it was IE only, then because most people use it I like to view my sites like most people, but man, vista makes me want to use FF instead.
It takes my new super fast PC a minute to open up a new window, or a new tab. That is crazy. It has got to be doing something weird.
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I am, quite, sad. So, the data recovery people said my disk was a 96% loss.
I am angry at Dell, for having crappy SATA drivers that caused repeated BSODs. I'm angry at the weather for killing my internet for 3 or 4 days preventing me from going online and looking up the cause and solution. I'm angry at my backup software for not working. I'm angry at myself for not being more diligent in backing things up.
The good news is, I did have a backup of my documents and my business files that was only a week old, so I only lost a little bit.
the bad news is I did NOT have a recent backup of my personal pictures, which sucks. Vacation, garden, family pictures etc. I also didn't have a good backup of all the recent video footage I recently did (making videos for my compost site). So that really really sucks too.
The data company is atleast not charging me. They're called Gillware and they only charge if they can recover data and since they only recovered so little they're not charging me anything (and are still sending me the little bit on a dvd).
Let this be a lesson, back stuff up, and in particular with family pictures, offsite storage at a place like shutterfly, flickr, etc is highly adviseable. Luckily, I did have a few hundred pictures at shutterfly so those are safe.
That's terrible
When you made the post I started arranging my things to be backed up.
30gb of photosI organize my photos by category so it's hard/impossible to backup only new ones. My incremental backup software only backups the new one to the other drive, but as far as burning to a DVD I do entire burns of everything! Talk about a lot of DVDs. 30gb photos, ~10gb websites, luckily email and docs are <2gb. Still ~45gb total.
A 2nd drive to mirror on for pictures is good, and backup every 6mo or yearly on to dvds then store at home and off site.
I've had data get corrupted on those to easyOriginally Posted by Chris
Same with the WD external USB HD that do NOT use an external power source. The HD's that use external power source have been working great, I have 2 of them.
Realistically, it's not to much$ to build a second PC with the sole purpose of backup. Or, just buy a few of the external HDs (USB or FireWire) and run the software I have and it can do backups, mirroring, etc. The software I have will also make tons of zip files and FTP and/or email them to you (gmail storage) for safe keeping. I think I may set this up for GMAIL as an ultra-redundant system.
I found it: SmartSync Pro http://www.smartsync.com/ $45 now, when I got it in 2006 it was $30. Great software though!
-Todd
With the software you can do an unlimited # of backup options too.
IE: Copy C: to D: then D: to E: then email E: weekly, but do the previous backups nightly. And copy network drive to local drive, etc, all from same software all scheduled.
You should blog about this, I'm amazed how many people still don't backup their data, even though they're Internet knowledge is vast.
Kyle
Ya kyle, except I think I'll do a blog & article tandem.
Thanks for the software link todd.
Now todd... really... you've had data loss on flash memory sticks? As I recall flash memory is supposed to be tough as nails, no moving parts and all that, much more reliable.
Yes. On flash memory sticks, as well as flash media for my digital camera. I lost many pictures
I've stayed away from VISTA so I am not sure.
As for the old hard drive...by using a low level format tool you can sometimes recover hard drives with some errors. Usually the same manufacturers of the drive have some low level tools you can use.
Nah Nico, I sent it away to a data recovery company, they opened it up and tried to fix in a clean room (after trying all logical methods to pull data). the disc had 96% magnetic corruption.
I'm using mozy.com as an automatic offsite backup. It took almost a month to get 150 gigs uploaded, but the incremental backups needed now happen in the background. Smugmug.com also has a new heavy duty backup service.
paul - change it)) and forgot about troubles
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