-=PCTechTalk=- Re: Backups
- From: Gman <gman.pctt@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 20:46:03 -0400
Glo,
Life got in the way and they were basically abandoned. Not permanently,
but I have yet to get back to them. At this point, I've piecemeal covered
most of the stuff that would have ended up in them, except for the step by
step I had planned to add for at least one backup program. Since you've
reminded me of this, I'll try to get to that part, at least, over the next
couple of days.
As for your personal situation, do you still have the failed hard drive?
There are recovery services that will analyze the drive, determine why it
failed and repair it well enough to recover the data on it again. These
services aren't cheap, but it may be worth the cost when the data is this
precious.
Peace,
Gman
"The only dumb questions are the ones we fail to ask"
----- Original Message -----
From: "Glo" <redowl@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2008 5:29 AM
Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Backups
> Say G, what about those backup instructions you were writing a long time
> ago, did you ever finish that project? I think HB was also inquiring
> about
> it, along with a few others. I'm asking because my hard drive died
> recently, it was just before I went on vacation. While I was gone my
> friend
> was supposed to be fixing it (at that point we didn't realize yet that it
> was dead), and when he did figure it out he copied everything to a disk
> and
> it GOT LOST!!! So here I am with an empty computer, all financial
> records,
> pictures, game scores, music, etc., gone. My husband was sick for a very
> long time before he passed away and all of the pictures I took of him were
> on that hard drive, I'll never save anything important ever again, it's
> back
> to throw-away cameras with paper pictures. It's the most miserable
> feeling
> in the world and I don't want it to happen again ever. I have tons of
> CDs,
> but no clue how or what to back up and if I am backing up or copying or if
> they are both the same thing (?) The only thing I ever backed up was
> Quicken
> and I sent that to another place in the computer, how stupid was that?? I
> was sick over the whole thing, wouldn't even use the computer for weeks,
> except for my online banking. Maybe everyone already knows how to do
> backups and you abandoned the project? ~Glo
>
> Gman wrote: It's for this reason that a good backup plan
> should be a part of everyone's computer maintenance chores. All of your
> important images, song files, documents, etc. (including the games & stuff
> that you download) can easily be burned to a CD or DVD for safekeeping
>
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