I'm Back!

[gamer007]

Hey guys, I'm back for more crunching. Late Thurs. night, my computer suffered a hard drive failure. I tried reformatting and reinstalling Windows several times, no go. So I decided to use my 250GB hard drive full of backups of a lot of stuff. I managed to recover a lot of my music and everything (though some files seem to be "dead" upon recovering, I'm sure there's many more I'll need to search for). I lost everything on my 250GB hard drive unfortunately.

But now I'm back on Windows XP MCE and ready to crunch again!

I feel like I need a 3rd hard drive to backup everything. I think I should get an external HDD to make a complete backup of everything.

[Opteron]

Sorry to hear about your troubles, I've been there...

[Jeff]

Staples has a 400 GB WD HDD for only like 80 bucks.

[PoorBoy]

Errrggggg ... That's why I'm a firm believer in having 2 Hard Drives per system. Even if you run with 1 hard drive & partition it if the drive goes bad your out everything almost.

I run 2 drives, partition them & copy everything I want to save to both drives, that way if 1 goes bad at least I have everything on the other drive ...

My main PC is down right now, I don't know what happened, I rebooted it because I did some updates and I lost the Internet connection on it, I played with it for a couple of hours trying different thingd to get the connection back with no luck. So I'm re-installing the OS now & see what happens.

I run the BOINC on the non OS drive so all I have to do is start out where it left off once I get the connection back ...

[gamer007]

Errrggggg ... That's why I'm a firm believer in having 2 Hard Drives per system. Even if you run with 1 hard drive & partition it if the drive goes bad your out everything almost.

I run 2 drives, partition them & copy everything I want to save to both drives, that way if 1 goes bad at least I have everything on the other drive .

That's what I'm planning on doing. Having all my music, videos, pictures, etc. on my OS drive (250GB SATA) and my backup drive (500GB SATA2).

I'm happy that most of my stuff survived through all the punishment with all that worthless reformatting and reinstalling the OS. Some of my stuff are becoming very rare and hard to find on the net.

[drezha]

I'm a bit of a backup wh*re ;)

Back up a lot of files to DVD (I do a weekly document backup to CD, but just got over 700Mb so I need to get some DVD-RW's...)
I have all my docs on my laptop with all my music etc. I run Syncback n those regularly. I use the Rsync command in linux to backup my documents nightly to external HD.

Let that be a lesson, make sure your backups are working ;)
I recommend checking out Syncback. Very good program. Free and paid for editions avliable but the free does me fine (ones aimed at the corperate environment)

All my save games to games are backed up as well... If anything goes, I rwecovery disc for the laptop and if my desktop goes, I dont give a damn because I've got copies of all my docs (the iportant part!) and I run linux! So i can freely download all the software I quite happily want again because I only use free software on 'nix. (Mind I should really give a donation as some of these programs are awesome...GNUCash, Rsync etc...fantastic)

I've alays thought it best to have documents and important files on the non OS disk, because the OS disk IMHO is likely to be used more no?