If all else fails, do not trash the drive. Depending on the damaged areas, data is sometimes retrievable. I recovered 90% of my data from a crashed drive by mounting it as an external drive when I got the new system up and running. Sometimes it works - sometimes it don't.
Larry On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 4:07 PM, Ron Ferguson <[email protected]> wrote: > Howland, > > Join the club – the HDD on my old XP machine went kaput last Saturday. > Following which I would make one point to others, ensure that you have your > email copies of your software registrations backed up on another disk. > Unfortunately I had not done this for my Tree Draw Legacy program and Legacy > Sales are extremely slow in replying to my urgent emails requesting copies > of the registration (6 days at the moment). > > Having got that off my chest (at least for the time being) Legacy stores the > back-up for your files on the same HDD as the program in C:\Legacy\Data. > Unfortunately if that HDD has gone you are in trouble. Whether or not it > will be on your external drive, rather depends on what you have set it up to > save. I suggest that you search this drive for it. If your Family File was, > say, Ferguson.fdb then the back up will be of the form “Ferguson date > time.zip” in which case I would just search for the “Ferguson” bit. You may > get a lot of results, but it should not be too hard to pick it out. > > Ron Ferguson > > > From: Howlanddavisii > Sent: Friday, May 06, 2011 7:34 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Backup Of Family File > > Listers: > > My hard drive crashed last week. I always backed up my family file when > exiting the file and I had an external hard drive that saved my files once a > week. My question is where would the backup file be? What drive would it > be in and what file name if I did not change anything from the default. > > Howland Davis > > > > > Legacy User Group guidelines: > http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp > Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp > Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on > our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). > To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp > Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
