I know most on the list support disk imagers to back up data but that
never worked for me worth a darn. And my attempts at backup solutions go
all the way back to the old tape drives and they never worked worth a
darn either. The best solution I've ever found is to duplicate my data
across multiple hardrives (and a thumb drive as well) on multiple boxes.
Best solution yet if you're not backing up your entire DVD collection. I
don't have that much hardrive space. :-)
Steve Tomporowski wrote:
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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