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WGP guy2 
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 Topic: You don't learn your lesson...Posted: 08 October 2009 at 2:48pm |
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...until it's too late.
Everyone should go back up their hard drives right now...
Mine just crapped out on me, I had about 300 gigs on it, with maybe 1/20th of it backed up. Lost a lot of important stuff...
I will be keeping a small, backup drive in my comp from now on.
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Reb Cpl
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Posted: 08 October 2009 at 3:03pm |
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WGP guy2
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Posted: 08 October 2009 at 3:10pm |
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People like me know how to diagnose and fix the problem...
I already popped a new drive in there and the new partition has been setting up for over an hour. Unfortunately a lot of important stuff, such as projects that I put on my resume, were there and not backed up.
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choopie911
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Posted: 08 October 2009 at 3:12pm |
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Thats why I have a 320 gig underneath my printer that mirrors my drive. So handy. Knock on wood but I've had amazing luck with computers. As a family we've had upwards of 9 or 10 computers and not one of them has had the hard drive fail.
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Posted: 08 October 2009 at 3:19pm |
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I have a main 250gb drive, which I've only used 70gb of, and a portable USB drive that is partitioned twice that I put things on that I want saved just in case.
I've been thinking of buying a second drive to set up in a RAID config, but alas, I can't even afford a $40 HD at this point. |
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Posted: 08 October 2009 at 4:10pm |
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Hm... Good call.
I would be heartbroken if I lost my photo collection. Backing that up now. Likewise school assignments.
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Posted: 08 October 2009 at 4:12pm |
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Fingers crossed.
I have all my music and pr0n on an external. If that goes, I'm screwed. |
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Posted: 08 October 2009 at 5:37pm |
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Backing up all docs and apps now. Nice little reminder.
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Posted: 08 October 2009 at 5:38pm |
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I've been using Carbonite until I get off my ass and get a 1.5 terabyte USB harddrive for backups.
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Posted: 08 October 2009 at 5:50pm |
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I have yet to really have anything on my computer that needs to be backed up. Just some music and a few writing assignments that have no significance. I want to get an external, I'm just too lazy to buy one.
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Posted: 08 October 2009 at 8:04pm |
^^^Exactly I think it is time though for me to backup. I am thinking of filling up my Microsoft Skydrive. Cloud computing ftw! Edited by Mehs - 08 October 2009 at 8:07pm |
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Posted: 08 October 2009 at 9:02pm |
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I'm still running on my old 40G drive. Knock on wood big time. Good thing is that all my stuff I'd want to save will actually fit on a Thumb drive. All my games are backed up with either the original CDs and keys or via Steam or D2D.
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Posted: 09 October 2009 at 1:19am |
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My drives are all only a few years old and still in good shape so I'm not too worried. I tend to keep multiple copies of the important stuff anyway. But if I had the money, I'd have a big RAID 1 NAS with FTP access setup right now so I could get to my stuff anywhere I have an internet connection and I have some redundancy to protect me from drive failures. Things like Skydrive are also an option but I don't like giving my files to other people to hold onto. Twice I've gotten letters from companies saying "Whoops! We lost a laptop with your SSN on it. Sorry about that." and I have not given it out very often (only job/school related situations). If they can't be trusted to guard something like that, I'm not so sure I trust them with my important private files.
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Posted: 09 October 2009 at 1:22am |
 Sucks to hear though. How'd it die for you? Almost all my important stuff exists in e-mail attachments and a number of other storage mediums. Everything else is on my RAID 5 array. But I do want to image my laptop soon, it's not showing any signs of being in trouble, but crap happens. Everyone should have some form of a SMART monitor on their computer as a heads up. It won't predict the future, but it will let you know usually if your drive is at risk of failing in a non-recoverable way (i.e: crashing platters, failed motors, etc).
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Posted: 09 October 2009 at 2:23am |
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Since the start of school this year, I have been backing up all my work onto its own flash drive.
I would probably jump out of my window if I lost all that work. (10mb of .doc files in a month so far) |
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Posted: 09 October 2009 at 3:43am |
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Question. HOW?
I tried the simple XP click on backup thing, but now it's telling me my Terrabyte drive can't take >4gb backup files. I'm trying to backup around 200gb of info..... KBK |
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Posted: 09 October 2009 at 4:02am |
Sounds like it's Fat32 if I had to take a guess. Can't take files that large, reformat it. Can anyone confirm? |
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Posted: 09 October 2009 at 7:27am |
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Yeah, FAT32 can only take files smaller than 4 GB.
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Posted: 09 October 2009 at 12:37pm |
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SO I need to copy all the info off my 1TB then reformat it?
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Posted: 09 October 2009 at 1:00pm |
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I can't imagine why you formatted it in FAT32 in the first place, unless you were using it to transfer files between OS X and Windows.
My suggestion would be to partition it (create a second NTSF partition), copy everything from FAT32 there, then extend the partition over the whole drive. Can't remember if Windows will actually let you do that, I know OS X will, but that won't help you for NTSF. What files do you have that are larger than 4 GB? *EDIT* Re-read your other post. XP is saving files in greater than 4 GB chunks? That's weird, I don't know how Windows backs up stuff though. Personally, I would simply copy stuff over. If you're creating tons of documents/files every day, it may not be worth it, but there are other backup utilities that are probably a lot more flexible than the Windows one out there. Edited by ParielIsBack - 09 October 2009 at 1:02pm |
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