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07-27-2005, 04:08 PM
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Re: Do youself a favor and read this post
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Alobar, get in touch with these people: http://www.actionfront.com/ They're very fast, and they do free estimates. All you're paying for is shipping. It may turn out to be a fairly cheap fix, at least to fix it long enough for you to transfer data to a new drive. [/ QUOTE ] I've never known anyone who found this sort of data recovery from a failed hd to be a "cheap fix". It is usually very very expensive. 
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07-27-2005, 04:48 PM
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Or, if your database is small enough, just burn it to a DVD [/ QUOTE ] Now there's the kind of advice I wish I'd paid attention to before I spilled a cup of coffee on my laptop last week. I'm having a lot of trouble recalling most of the 80,000 hands I had in there. And my pokergrapher. Oh, how I loved it so. I used to gaze adoringly at my graph for hours at a time. Now I'm reduced to spending my time talking to my girlfriend instead.
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#23
07-27-2005, 05:14 PM
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And how do you backup 400GB data? [/ QUOTE ] can you say RAID1? i can...
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#24
07-27-2005, 05:18 PM
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Re: Do youself a favor and read this post
And how do you backup 400GB data? You've 400GB data? WOW You know they sell HD where you can go up to x TB? TIme is going fast, my pocket pc is faster than a Pentium 1. LOL It's 400 Mhz and I think it stinks because it's too slow. I can't image the time when we worked on 233Mhz...
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#27
07-27-2005, 06:48 PM
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And how do you backup 400GB data? [/ QUOTE ] Back it up once, to a set of DVDs (or CDs if you don't have a DVD burner). It's painful, especially if you have to resort to CDs, but it's a one shot deal. Then do daily backups of files that have changed (or weekly, if you don't have a lot of files that changed); any decent backup software will allow you to do "incremental" backups. This is virtually painless, and you can even set it up to launch while you're sleeping; just leave a CD in the burner overnight. Or, if you have the bucks, you can buy a RAID array, as others have suggested, and any time a single disk goes bad, you just replace it, and the data mirrored on the other drives will still be there. [ QUOTE ] Just don't have your data on the same HD as your OS and you will be fine if you don't drop a magnet on the HD. [/ QUOTE ] Totally untrue. It's not only the OS drives that crash. I'll let others elaborate. [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img] -Mike
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07-27-2005, 07:16 PM
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Re: Do youself a favor and read this post
I'm far from an expert and so shouldn't really be making recommendations--but here's my take. I want to back up not only my data, but all the software (shareware, pirated, a tiny bit even purchased) I installed too. if my HD ever fails, I want all my data, all my programs and config--and I want to be able to boot right into that. so what I went after was a bootable clone of my HD. you got your ghost and your acronis and your casper and all that. well most of that makes a back up that you have to extract onto a disk. so you still need some other way to boot, and then you have to do that extraction. most of those products can do clones, ie make an exact working copy of your disk--but in win xp they tend not to be bootable.
there is a solution. the maker of xxcopy, which is an advanced dos based utility made a new product specifically for what I want: XXCLONE. it makes a bootable clone of your win xp HD. all data, programs, and operating system. now, if my HD fails. I pull it out. toss it in the trash and boot from my second HD in the modular laptop bay without missing a beat (and I'll physically switch that one over to the primary HD bay). it's like $40. it specifially makes the clone bootable. and it does incremental back ups. (also, it doesn't clone sector by sector or whatever, it defrags the files.)
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#30
07-27-2005, 07:21 PM
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Just don't have your data on the same HD as your OS and you will be fine if you don't drop a magnet on the HD. [/ QUOTE ] It's not a question of IF your hard drive will fail, it's a question of when! ALL hard drives WILL fail eventually.
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