Lost a hard drive.

Post by **wizardly1** » Mon Jun 19, 2006 7:54 pm 0 likes

Well, somehow or other my external harddrive crashed, which had all my movies. I also seem to have downloaded a lot of vurus's and spyware unkbown. it will be some time before i am back up and running, just wanted you to know. I feel bad I am no longer a source for you guys.

Wiz

Post by **billanben** » Mon Jun 19, 2006 8:36 pm 0 likes

wizardly1 wrote:Well, somehow or other my external harddrive crashed, which had all my movies. I also seem to have downloaded a lot of vurus's and spyware unkbown. it will be some time before i am back up and running, just wanted you to know. I feel bad I am no longer a source for you guys.

Wiz

Been there done that got t shirt - feel for you ! Don't worry bout us but any chance of recovering data ?

Debaser · Post by **Debaser** » Mon Jun 19, 2006 9:02 pm 0 likes

that sux

backup backup backup each and every film!!!!!!!!!!

Post by **billanben** » Mon Jun 19, 2006 10:51 pm 0 likes

Debaser wrote:that sux

backup backup backup each and every film!!!!!!!!!!

you mean to dvd ? what do you use to do as quick as possible ?

Debaser · Post by **Debaser** » Tue Jun 20, 2006 9:26 am 0 likes

I guess everyone has there own way of doing it, but this is my little routine:

Every time a movie completes, I copy the title to notepad and save the notepad in a folder I have named "To Backup".

I will then backup the movies to DVDR as data when I see I have enough titles in notepad to fill the DVD.

I have trained myself to do it this way in order that I never miss backing up a single film, as I too have had to learn the hard way after losing a drive.

I wouldn’t dream of not backing up a single film, especially as some of them here are like gold dust.

Post by **mongodisco** » Tue Jun 20, 2006 10:22 am 0 likes

all movies/tvseries that i cap/dl are being burned to DVD-R's as soon as i have the complete serie or can fill up a disc with different movies. Same routines followed for Norwegian music, radioplays, audiobooks etc..

Post by **wizardly1** » Tue Jun 20, 2006 5:48 pm 0 likes

billanben wrote:
wizardly1 wrote:Well, somehow or other my external harddrive crashed, which had all my movies. I also seem to have downloaded a lot of vurus's and spyware unkbown. it will be some time before i am back up and running, just wanted you to know. I feel bad I am no longer a source for you guys.

Wiz
Been there done that got t shirt - feel for you ! Don't worry bout us but any chance of recovering data ?

No luck so far.

Wiz

Post by **wizardly1** » Tue Jun 20, 2006 5:50 pm 0 likes

mongodisco wrote:all movies/tvseries that i cap/dl are being burned to DVD-R's as soon as i have the complete serie or can fill up a disc with different movies. Same routines followed for Norwegian music, radioplays, audiobooks etc..

I had assumed that since this external drive was a free one and it had two hundred gig of space, I would use it for storage. Didn't realise it could go blewie also. <sigh>

Wiz

Debaser · Post by **Debaser** » Tue Jun 20, 2006 7:33 pm 0 likes

I had assumed that since this external drive was a free one and it had two hundred gig of space, I would use it for storage. Didn't realise it could go blewie also

I treat mine just like an internal HD in that I dont use it just as storage-backup, I still backup whats on the external.

Post by **sodepetahi** » Wed Jun 21, 2006 11:50 am 0 likes

The trouble is with external hard drives is that of heat dissipation (it gets hot

) this can lead to premature failure. mine has internal fans but as previously stated by others you are only safe when you have more than one back up source

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