I use Carbonite, on top of my "first" backup. $55 well spent. For most people, they will do their own backup for a while then stop. With Carbonite, it is in the background and you do not have to worry about it.
-----Original Message----- From: Bryan Stevenson [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, August 29, 2011 8:58 AM To: cf-talk Subject: RE: (ot) Recover Data from External Hard Drive Carbonite eh.....I've seen it mentioned a few times....saw a commercial for it over the weekend for the 1st time. Perhaps I didn't understand the offer, but it sure seemed like online (i.e. the cloud) was the repository?? If so, I'm curious why the cloud is seen as a safe backup solution? The only use I can see for cloud based backups is a secondary backup in case of say a fire at home (where you may not have a fire safe)...or perhaps a flood. To use it as primary backup seems even more prone to problems than a kid yanking on cords (given that it's beyond your control....but it would be safe from your own kids...hehe). Anyways, just curious to see what folks think and to make sure I'm not missing some silver bullet solution to backups ;-) TIA Cheers On Mon, 2011-08-29 at 09:45 -0400, Rick Faircloth wrote: > Send it to a data-recovery lab. ($$$) > > And then use Carbonite... > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Eric Cobb [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Monday, August 29, 2011 9:02 AM > To: cf-talk > Subject: (ot) Recover Data from External Hard Drive > > > So, this is way OT, but I'm hoping someone out there can give me some > suggestions to help me figure this out. Here's my situation: > > I have a 500GB USB external hard drive on my home PC that I use to > store pretty much everything. All of our pictures, financial > documents, mp3s, code repositories, everything. I have the hard drive > partitioned into 2 equal parts, and they are set up as the "F" and "G" > drives on the PC. Last week, my 9 month old grabbed the cable and > pulled the hard drive off of the desk. When I plugged the hard drive > back in, I could no longer access any of the data on the drives. > Windows is saying that the drives need to be formatted. > > I've tried it on 3 separate machines, and I get the same thing on each > one. When I plug in the hard drive, Windows sees both the "F" and "G" > partitions, but wants to format them every time I try to open them. I > looked in disk manager and it shows each partition with the correct > size, but it says that each one is 100% free and contains no data. It > does this on Windows XP, Windows 2003, and Windows 7. > > I tried booting Knoppix to see if I could access it that way, but I > can't even get Knoppix to see the USB hard drive, or if it does I > don't know where to look. I used VirtualBox to boot an Ubuntu > instance, but got the same results as Knoppix, either it doesn't see > the USB hard drive, or if it does I don't know where to look. (now > would probably be a good time to mention that I don't know squat about Linux). > > So, that's my predicament. Does anyone out there have any suggestions > on what to try? I feel like that if I can get Knoppinx/Ubuntu to see > the drive that may be my best bet, but I don't have a clue as to how > to do it. (plan on doing some serious googling tonight). > > I appreciate any suggestions anyone may have. > > Thanks, > > Eric Cobb > http://www.cfgears.com > > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:347108 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
