My backup problem may affect few today, but I think that it will become
more common as hard drives expand their capacity and people use their
computer in greater ways. At present, I think that very large SATA
hard
drives of 1 Terrabyte (does Windows XP support these?) or BluRay disks
are
I've switched from backing to dvd to just keeping multiple drives,
everything in at least two spots. It's much easier.
Mike
On Feb 1, 2008 6:16 PM, Robert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Tony B wrote:
Hard drives can and do fail suddenly and without warning. But your
backup
strategy seems to
Tony B wrote:
I can't recommend much else because I have no idea why you've got so
many drives hooked up or what you do with them. Try to consolidate.
I'm not sure that I understand your recommendation.
According to Belarc Advisor, I have about 1.3 terabytes of hard drive
storage. Why so
Hard drives can and do fail suddenly and without warning. But your backup
strategy seems to consist entirely of adding more hard drives! This is
certainly incorrect, but you don't need to wait for blu-ray; use DVDs like
the rest of us do. Any good compression program (e.g. 7zip) will split large
At 08:18 PM 1/31/2008, Robert wrote:
I have decided to reformat the F: drive. I still don't know why a good drive
should suddenly be an unformatted drive. I am currently restoring all files
from 3 months ago from a backup on another (external) drive.
Is the F: drive an internal or external
On Jan 26, 2008 7:16 PM, Robert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Now trying to access the drive F, I get this message from Windows: The
disk drive in F is not formatted. Do you want to format it now?
I recommend going to grc.com and buying SpinRite - you can just download
it and run it. You may
Followup on a suddenly unformatted drive. I have decided that the
internal hard drive F: that Windows reports as being unformatted is
reported by BelArc advisor as this one:
Maxtor 6Y120M0 [Hard drive] (122.94 GB) -- drive 2, s/n Y3KTK99E, rev
YAR51EW0, SMART http://www.belarc.com/smart.html
Right click my computer and select manage.
Select disk management.
See if the drive shows up. If it does right click it and see if it gives
you any options like convert foreign disk or convert to dynamic...anything
but format unless you want to lose your data. Sometimes when I connect
internal
A week or more ago, I noticed that the desktop icon for internal drive F
was missing. I reinstalled the shortcut using My Computer (Windows XP
SP 2).
Now trying to access the drive F, I get this message from Windows: The
disk drive in F is not formatted. Do you want to format it now?
I
What a mess. I'm allowed to call it that because at one point you
actually admit I can't remember WHAT was on that drive!.
Hard drives are only temporary storage. Especially removable
(external) drives will lose formatting from time to time. Not a big
deal, especially if there wasn't anything
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