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Lost a hard drive.
Posted: Mon Jun 19, 2006 7:54 pm
by wizardly1
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
Re: Lost a hard drive.
Posted: Mon Jun 19, 2006 8:36 pm
by billanben
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 ?
Re: Lost a hard drive.
Posted: Mon Jun 19, 2006 9:02 pm
by Debaser
that sux
backup backup backup each and every film!!!!!!!!!!
Re: Lost a hard drive.
Posted: Mon Jun 19, 2006 10:51 pm
by billanben
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 ?
Re: Lost a hard drive.
Posted: Tue Jun 20, 2006 9:26 am
by Debaser
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.
Re: Lost a hard drive.
Posted: Tue Jun 20, 2006 10:22 am
by mongodisco
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..
Re: Lost a hard drive.
Posted: Tue Jun 20, 2006 5:48 pm
by wizardly1
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
Re: Lost a hard drive.
Posted: Tue Jun 20, 2006 5:50 pm
by wizardly1
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
Re: Lost a hard drive.
Posted: Tue Jun 20, 2006 7:33 pm
by Debaser
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.
Re: Lost a hard drive.
Posted: Wed Jun 21, 2006 11:50 am
by sodepetahi
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