Life after a hard disk crash

Nothing dreads a person like an hard disk crash , the nightmarish though of losing that valuable data always lingers in the subconcious of anyone. And when it really happens all one can do is curse him/her self for not backing up the data on disks on time , yes there are recovery methods but they are extremely timeconsuming and not always 100%. Data loss is an harrowing experience & it can drive one absolutely insane. My sleep & daily life was badly affected by it , all the while i kept on thinking about it. Its an ordeal i wish no one ever has to go through. I used GetDataBack and recovered my things, some of them atleast as its a slow process and with my p3 even more so. My advice to everyone is backup your important data on dvds / cds today , the media is dirt cheap & your data invaluable, spend that extra few minutes on the backup every week, i know i will !!

 

I will cry very hard if my laptop crashes...............

i am going to buy something to backup my very important files.

If my computer crashes I will have to start my whole entire online adventures all over!!

 

This happened to me over a year ago, it is a terrible experience. Now I always backup my data onto a 500gb external just incase.

 

Sad to hear, I always back up my things twice a week. Doesnt worry me

 

I use acronis true image and no raid. Rail collaplse all time. Simple i store the image on a different hard disk

 

I always backup the most important stuff - movies and music

 

I had my hard drive crash and It took me two days to repair it but I disn't lose any data. It really sucked. I guess I'll back it up tomorrow to an external drive. Thanks for the reminder.

 

Always have grandmother backups of at least a weekly variety. Especially if you are carrying alot of web code and easy page building layouts.

 

A good reminder, thanks.

 

How'd you go about repairing yours? My laptop, which runs Ubuntu 7.1, crashed last week and the hard drive does not spin anymore. Any tips on how to recover the data, besides a professional service?

 

It wasn't a mechanical drive failure. I had to rebuild the boot sector in Win2000.

If you have a head crash ,I'm not sure what you can do?

 

It's a head crash. There isn't much critical data on it, but I've lost an impressive collection of weblinks and bookmarks

 

2 monthes ago my hard disk crashed.
i wanted to scream but just say myself calm down.

 

I make a ghost image every month of my drive, I still have some images from 05 might see what was on it later .

 

By reading this i just bought a 650 gb external harddrive to backup all my things.

- Prilep

 

there is life after hard disk crash? not to me lol

 

I always prefer to make a backup.

 

my external crashed too , two hard diskts in one day ,
im going to take backup on dvds as well !!

 

You must be getting power surges or have a lot of static electricity. I think a flash drive would be better than trying to burn to dvd.