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Finally Made It Back! - MountainMan - 12-05-2017
My hard drive finally died of old agea few weeks ago, and to make matters worse, it was one of those multi-terabyte ones so a ton of data, sites, passwords and everything else was locked up inside a dead brain.
Paid a lot of money to the "experts"
to resurrect it, and after buying a new hard drive, paying all that money for "data transference" and waiting for a lightning bolt to revive my computer...almost no data left. :cry: Finally got back here, though, so all is good after all.
Re: Finally Made It Back! - faraway - 12-05-2017
I am sorry about your computer disaster. i suggest you talk to a computer literate near you to get a life backup solution.
ps. A life backup is a second harddisk that is frequently (at least daily) updated with the last changes. It is like a mirror of the first one. You simply switch over to the second one in case of a failure of the first one.
Re: Finally Made It Back! - ezdays - 12-05-2017
Most of us never do manual backups as often as we should, and some not at all. When I hear of a large company being held hostage by someone that locked their data, I wonder, "what happened to their last night's backup? Oh, they don't back up very often either....
Yeah, I should subscribe to automatic backups since I'm as guilty as most and probably haven't backed up in months.
Good luck MM, I hope you find a way of getting all your data back.
Re: Finally Made It Back! - MountainMan - 12-05-2017
faraway Wrote:I am sorry about your computer disaster. i suggest you talk to a computer literate near you to get a life backup solution.
ps. A life backup is a second harddisk that is frequently (at least daily) updated with the last changes. It is like a mirror of the first one. You simply switch over to the second one in case of a failure of the first one.
I'm doing that now!
Note: My drive has a mirror backup on it, but the "experts" apparently couldn't or wouldn't find it to transfer the remaining data. :evil:
Re: Finally Made It Back! - doctorwayne - 12-08-2017
MountainMan, welcome back! I've sent you a PM regarding an issue with your computer problems.
Wayne
Re: Finally Made It Back! - Tyson Rayles - 12-09-2017
I keep nothing of value on my puter, that said being without one sucks. Glad you are back up and running.