When I heard about it I never thought that would happen to me. Please backup your files now, don't be like me
brutal!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! you didn't even have the photos on CD's or DVD's even??? not to mention all the other stuff...sorry to hear of that loss, time, $$, etc. I had something similar happen to me...bad IDE controller forked me over on not 1 but 2 hard drives....had backup more or less but lost a lot of editing time on pictures...did no have backups of those!
I didn't have photos. I have some of them done in photo store but that is very low % Not sure what to do now. Good thing is that I have some files on my email and at my brothers comp, but still lost very very much.
I backup religiously. I really don't give a crap about losing work stuff that I can re-do. But losing photos and personal stuff is a heart breaker. 1. I run an automated backup at 3am DAILY (onto a separate dedicated backup HD) using Second Copy. It's simple, it works, and it's right there if I need it. 2. At least once a week I run the same backup onto a cheap 250gb external drive that I store at my parents house (incase my house burns down!). 3. About once a month I burn the most important stuff onto DVD. Photos, music, notes, IM history, all that junk you keep for no reason - it's all priceless. Hard drives are cheap. Once you get a backup plan going, it's about as much hassle as putting shoes on everyday. DO IT NOW.
i think i need a software to remind me about back up my file. Maybe, i need to do my own wallpaper with a big words of BACK UP and also I need to set up timer everyday to remind me.. p.s- i always forget to back up my file. Luckily, before somethings bad happen i already back up my computer..
Why not just store everything in 1 directory (e.g My Docs), and just manually drag the whole thing over to a backup drive before you shutdown. I think we should have all learnt the backup lesson by now
I use email accounts to back up alot of my data, just incase my house burns down. My friend recently lost his pc to a massive HD failure! he was sick.
That's a huge loss there mate. I'm sorry... I suppose the photos aren't the most important files there but the custom website templates and your php scripts. Well, we all learn from our mistakes.
i lost my hard drive before. mine was a stupid story. i backed up all my files because i was about to do a clean format on the hard drive and install the OS. backed up all 120GB of it. and the.....i formatted the WRONG disk. that's right. i formatted the disk where my backups are. i spent the next few days banging my head agaisnt the wall and running recovery programs on the dead disk. i manage to recover only about 60% of the original contents, and some of them are corrupted due to missing filedata, etc. so to reiterate: backup your disk AND MAKE SURE YOU DON'T TOUCH IT.
Oh crap!.. I've done that once also.. It is amazing how bad things can get when you do something as stupid as that. I had some 200 GBs worth of things. The sad part is that I had them on a separate drive (w/2 partitions), and somehow when I added the additional drive in there, Windows re-labeled the partitions, and I formated the wrong partition. So now, I have a 300 GB External DISK and I keep all my backups there..
Sorry to hear about your loss. I can understand that as this happened to me once when I was quite new to computers and stuff and I lost my hard drive (maybe because of lots of partitions lol) and I lost valuable data. After that now I've a DVD writer to help me backing up my data And I backup my stuff every week. So no worries now
Another thing to watch, don't CUT AND PASTE to a network or any share for the matter. Should the paste fail, errr data go bye bye. If you have something to recover the files it technically wont be gone, it however is for the casual user. Done that on more than one occassion transferring to a different network computer.
huh, they just vanish? sorta like if you delete a file across the network...it sure doesn't go to the recycle bin!!
this is exactly the kind of reminder I needed. I have to get back into it, I used to have a scheduled backup
Man that sucks. But maybe these guys can help you: http://www.drivesavers.com/ We had a hard drive fail on us before and we sent it to drive savers and they were able to rescue almost all the data we needed. The only problem is that they charge ALOT.
wow that does suck indeed. Well, atleast in future, you will back up your files, imagine if you had a website project you had been working on for 5 years and your harddrive got busted... lol