Back up your coin photos and other material on your HD
rawmorgan
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Hard drive just crashed, and had to re-image my computer, lost everything.
Coin Pics, documents, scans looking back can't believe I didn't back-up.
With USB memory sticks so cheap now you can't afford not too.
This was a total HD failure, looking into data recovery.
Told microcenter (a computer store here don't know if everyone has one in town)
I just want to recover, if possible, everything in my photo, documents, and favorites folder.
They seemed cautiously optimistic.
Coin Pics, documents, scans looking back can't believe I didn't back-up.
With USB memory sticks so cheap now you can't afford not too.
This was a total HD failure, looking into data recovery.
Told microcenter (a computer store here don't know if everyone has one in town)
I just want to recover, if possible, everything in my photo, documents, and favorites folder.
They seemed cautiously optimistic.
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It's backed up every year - and all images as well - plus
Photobucket has all the images as well.
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It also happens every Sunday night to the external drive.
And yes I had the main drive crash last year too it's a lot of work to get everything reloaded.
<< <i>I use carbonite -- much easier to just have it automatically taken care of in the background for me. >>
Yes, Carbonite is the solution. Daily back-ups. Plus it is very easy to recover just one file if you make a big mistake on a single file.
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Told microcenter (a computer store here don't know if everyone has one in town)
I just want to recover, if possible, everything in my photo, documents, and favorites folder.
They seemed cautiously optimistic. >>
I don't know how far you've gotten into the recovery process, but I'll tell you, it isn't inexpensive.
They usually start at $595.00 for an easy recovery. If they need to move it into a clean room to get recover it, it will likely be closer to $1500 or $2000.
sorry to hear.
<< <i>"With USB memory sticks so cheap now you can't afford not too." >>
+1
next trip should be to ebay. sandisk usb drives up around 15gb literally the size of 2 of my thumbnails for $20 or less.
just please go through a usa shipper
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Backing up is always a good idea and I install two hard drives in my PC as well as using usb sticks.
But I will be honest. I actually get prints of my family photos from shutterfly so if all my data died I would not
care so much as I have hard copy pictures and can always get a DVD from them. Tax crap can be replaced,
docs can be recreated, and I prepare for the day I will lose everything. I make sure I do not give a rat's butt
about it and I sleep easier because of it. Coin photos would be so low on the list of concerns it is kind of
funny unless I was creating a book or something. A picture of your son's 1st birthday.. well that cannot be replaced.
That is the difference.
Sometimes it is best to prepare for the worst data accidents and I do not mean backups. Get the data off the PC
and do something with it.
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Told microcenter (a computer store here don't know if everyone has one in town)
I just want to recover, if possible, everything in my photo, documents, and favorites folder.
They seemed cautiously optimistic. >>
I don't know how far you've gotten into the recovery process, but I'll tell you, it isn't inexpensive.
They usually start at $595.00 for an easy recovery. If they need to move it into a clean room to get recover it, it will likely be closer to $1500 or $2000. >>
What he is paying for is them to stick that HD into a working MS machine and run some common and free
tools to recover files. In no way are they going to take the platters out and stick them in an identical HD case
for a few thousand bucks. And even that rarely works as the platters are the problem. Not the shell and common
electronics. That type of hard core service is ridiculously expensive.
If it was me I would stick the disk into a linux box, take a complete image of the disk and work from that. Every
time you turn that disk on it will just get worse. I can tell you stories of hoops I had to jump through to get data
off HDs for family and work. Hours and hours and hours of time. Think days worth of work and sometimes week+.
And some disks I have failed on, completely.
<< <i>One might want to look into flashed based hard drives now days instead of traditional spinning disks.
Backing up is always a good idea and I install two hard drives in my PC as well as using usb sticks. >>
Im sorry to hear about the OP's HD crash. It happened to me about 7 years ago, and it was a nightmare to try to get everything back.
With that said, I recently upgraded my computer to a mac with a flash HD, and now as a habit continuously use a backup device for every important work file and picture. I also have found dropbox to be quite helpful in this, but I do pay the extra 9 bucks a month to get 100 gigs of storage. I think they give 2 gigs for free.
Hopefully you are able to recover some of your lost files.
<< <i>Thats one thing I like about Macs; Time Machine. >>
Yup. Automatic backups, every day. And pain free restorations.
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<< <i>Thats one thing I like about Macs; Time Machine. >>
Time Machine is da bomb. Best backup sw. And simple to restore from.
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Told microcenter (a computer store here don't know if everyone has one in town)
I just want to recover, if possible, everything in my photo, documents, and favorites folder.
They seemed cautiously optimistic. >>
I don't know how far you've gotten into the recovery process, but I'll tell you, it isn't inexpensive.
They usually start at $595.00 for an easy recovery. If they need to move it into a clean room to get recover it, it will likely be closer to $1500 or $2000. >>
What he is paying for is them to stick that HD into a working MS machine and run some common and free
tools to recover files. In no way are they going to take the platters out and stick them in an identical HD case
for a few thousand bucks. And even that rarely works as the platters are the problem. Not the shell and common
electronics. That type of hard core service is ridiculously expensive.
If it was me I would stick the disk into a linux box, take a complete image of the disk and work from that. Every
time you turn that disk on it will just get worse. I can tell you stories of hoops I had to jump through to get data
off HDs for family and work. Hours and hours and hours of time. Think days worth of work and sometimes week+.
My guess is that the drive's boot sector is corrupt. The drive is still spinning but not being recognized by the computer. Went with a new solid state 250 gig for a replacement. Microcenter quoted me 139 for data recovery. If they can't get the data it will go to one of those places with a clean room. If that's the case I'll really have to think about it.
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<< <i>With two terabyte external drives available for under $150, it makes no sense not to have at least one, and better - two, backups handy. Very simple process and so worth it when (not if) disaster strikes. Cheers, RickO >>
I think I paid $129 last year for one of these that was specifically configured for Mac's Time Machine. I'd never done a backup in my active computer life (20+ years), but now I do one every week. In fact, I think I'll go do one now...
Done.
840.8 MB in two minutes.
That is why one must test the data on the backup storage to be sure you have accurate and working data. So every once in a while stick that storage into a diff computer, restore, and randomly check some files.... You can normally do this via the restore software if you do not have a second computer.