Sorry to hear about your problems Steve, and good luck with getting your
data back; stories like this scare me to get better about backing up.
And just wondering-do you not have a UPS of any sort to deal with quick
power outages and let you do graceful shutdownn? The APC 900VA and 1500VA
ones aren't that expensive and are great for this kind of thing (tho mine
are a bit old)...I have two just for all my computer desk stuff (a 1500 and
900) and a 1500 on the HT system...battery replacement is a little pain, but
if it prevents this kind of stuff, it's worth it!
BINO
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Steve Tomporowski
Sent: Tuesday, June 30, 2009 11:06 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [H] Sometimes they're just out to get you
I was having a pretty good vacation until this morning.
Both computers running, one's a P35, the other P45 system. Power
Outage. By the time it took me to get through to UI, the power came
back on. P45 system booted fine. Boot Disk Fail on the P35 (Abit MB).
In between my wife sending me out on all kinds of errands (it amazes
me how the wife can instinctively know when I'm doing something
important and supplant that with the trivial), I start a reinstall of
windows to fix the boot record (somehow the repair option was not there
or do I misremember?) and bang, another power outage. Again the power
comes right back in five minutes. I restart the reinstall, get it to
boot and , despite the fact that I now have 3 entries on boot, I get the
old system back...except...the data drive is missing. Boot-up detection
does and doesn't detect the drive, it gives a blank listing, rather than
none. Of course the OS does not see the drive. Blank entry in BIOS with
all zeros. Tried reseating cables, new cable, moving drive to other
computer, same result. Drive seems to be fried. It was the storage for
all my program files (which I can eventually replace) and all my photos,
of which I think maybe half are backed up. I have other drives that
I've been religiously backing up, that one was one of my least concerns.
Of 6 HDs, the only one that goes is the one with stuff I cannot
replace...sheesh.
So Tim Lider, please contact me offlist.
Thanks...Steve
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