via windows and lost my whole fucking life. I managed to recover 95%
of it still missing 5-8 thousand mp3s but i can live without those.
I used Runtime Softwares File Recovery tool.
i couldn't do the undelete partition because i was running a dynamic
partition instead of a basic partition oh well taught me a lesson :>
I was so nervous i was actually sick to my stomach.
Glad you got it all back.
Most importantly did you tell your wife??
On Mon, 18 Oct 2004 14:16:09 -0400, Jim Davis
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >Now I've just got to decide if I'm going to bother return this motherboard
> >just for the NIC. The consumer in my says "yes, definitely" but the geek
> in
> >me says "but you've already done all this work. and everything is working
> >just fine! You idiot - leave it alone! Haven't you screwed up enough?"
>
> Glad it all worked out for you. I've been wondering about that myself. My
> life, is stored in a 180 MEG HD. Every single important piece of important
> documents as well as live sets my buddies did are on it. I'm considering a
> backup plan for this. I cannot afford to lose that drive
> either. Recently, one of my drives went bad. Luckily it wasn't the data
> drive.
>
> SO after your experience what is your plan to ensure the data on that drive
> is never at risk?
>
> The main backup strategy is the RAID mirroring of the disks - it costs more,
> but is so worth it. Lose a disk and don't lose any data. It really gives
> you so much peace of mind (and disks are getting cheaper all the time). The
> main problem is that there's no offsite backup (but how many home users
> really ever do that?) - if there's a real disaster (fire or something) then
> you've really lost everything.
>
> Periodically I copy all the data to the external hard disk (that's the sole
> reason I bought it). Very important data (like the family pics) are also
> copied to DVD. I periodically makes copies of this stuff for the
> grandparents anyway (so there is a kind of offsite back up). I copy the
> big, but not irreplaceable stuff (CD and DVD rips, CD ISO images, etc) to
> DVD less often mostly just because it tends to be huge (even on DVD I'd
> still need a dozen or so for everything).
>
> The mirroring has made me a little complacent: I've only been doing DVD
> backups infrequently. At this point I would have actually lost about three
> months worth of important data if I had lost the drive (the original post
> exaggerated a little. for entertainment don't you know). Still - that would
> have meant the baby's second birthday party, the Topsfield fair and a lot of
> other things.
>
> The big problem with mirroring is exactly what happened here: when you want
> to rebuild your machine or change the array you need someplace to stow all
> that data for the duration and then you're really vulnerable.
>
> Jim Davis________________________________
>
>
>
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