I have become a bit paranoid lately and I have purchased a new 360BG HD (external) and Acronis True Image as IMHO it totally busts Ghost (get it...?) to bits. I like how its SO easy to use, and it lets me do differentual or incremental updates, so I have one big image, then losta of smaller ones.....AND it restores perfectly well, and I like how I DONT have to load fro am dos bood disk every time I want to run it...PLUS its cheaper than Ghost. I make it do an incremental backup every 2nd night,......BUT in between that I also do a back up to DAT tape....
SO if I couodl recomend it, get True Image, its free for 14days or soemthing, doa back up to "somewhere" then if you HDs fail, at least it will be quick and hopfully painless to get up and runnign again. Jeremy -----Original Message----- From: Phil Middlemiss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Offtopic List <[email protected]> Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2007 13:39:37 +1300 Subject: Re: [DUG-Offtopic] Hard drive failure Yip, already had the fan blowing on them. Thanks for the other information. I'm very suspicious that both drives started overheating at the same day, so I'm beginning to wonder if it's just a case of making them work too hard, or some other component that is struggling. I'll give Spinrite a go - it may turn out the drives themselves are fine. Cheers, Phil. Paul Eggleton wrote: Phil Middlemiss wrote on Monday, 19 February 2007 1:07 p.m.: I have two Serial ATA hard drives (not in an array - just set up as two drives) that are overheating - which according to HDD Health means that they are possibly going to fail in the near future. Firstly I would suggest opening your case and pointing a decent fan at the drives so they don't overheat while you are attempting to copy from them. You'll probably need to sort this out permanently since I imagine you're likely to have a problem with any new drives you put in the machine. Try to tie back cables to improve airflow, put in extra fans, cut out or replace grilles etc. 1) Is there a sure fire way to confirm they are on their way out? Spinrite: http://www.grc.com/sr/spinrite.htm [http://www.grc.com/sr/spinrite.htm] It may even fix some errors and make the data easier to read when you get to the stage of copying it off. 2) If I purchase two replacement drives, what is the most pain-free way of getting my current setup on to the new drives without having to reinstall everything? You could use Norton Ghost, although it does not like copying from hard drives with read errors so it may not work for you. An alternative would be using "dd_rescue" (sometimes renamed to dd-rescue) from a Linux boot CD. Cheers, Paul --------------------------------------------------------- Paul Eggleton Ph: +64-9-4154790 Software Developer Fax: +64-9-4154791 CJN Technologies Ltd. DDI: +64-9-4154795 http://www.cjntech.co.nz [http://www.cjntech.co.nz/] Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Offtopic mailing list [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://ns3.123.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/offtopic [http://ns3.123.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/offtopic]
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