Last hard drive crash: January 2007
Most recent hard drive crash: TODAY
NO warning whatsoever. Everything was running perfectly. Then, POW.
(Bleep) this (bleeping) (bleep).
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UPDATE: I like my PC as much as Brett Favre likes Ted Thompson.
Do you have a good backup?
ReplyDeleteI also do recovery...
Yeah. With the price of drives today, there's no good reason not to have a backup. I clone my drive about every 6 months and update changed important files like photos, every time it's changed.
ReplyDeleteI've had drives go on me. Only once a system drive. Since I had a clone, though, I could simply swap it out for the bad one, reboot, and be good to go.
What a pain!
ReplyDeleteI'm up and running again.
Yes, I have a backup, but it wasn't as up-to-date as it should have been.
I didn't lose any really important files, but I did lose some stuff I wanted to keep.
I always have photos stored in more than one place. I would never trust any given hard drive with something irreplaceable.
The killer about yesterday's crash is the night before, just hours before it happened, I opted not to do a backup and I cleaned the house instead.
I looked at the clock and decided not to do the backup.
Moral of the story: Never clean when you should be tending to your computer.