Hey Paul,
Thanks for the link to Great site. hope I never crash but now I know where to go first! I assume site has other great info.
BTW-what method(s) do you all use for bacing up-CD data disks?
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| Author: | JBreault [ Fri Dec 29, 2006 9:24 am ] |
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To regularly back up those hard drives... I came back from Christmas dinner at my brothers to a black screen and the message saying "Operating System Not Found". After a couple of tests (I keep some bootable live CDs around) I was able to determine that my hard drive had crashed. It was a physical failure of the equipment...all my files lost...hours of rebuilding my system. I didn't have a recent backup of my drive, so everything is gone...and I know better. So, no matter what type of computer you have, remember to back up thos hard drives! |
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| Author: | PaulB [ Fri Dec 29, 2006 9:59 am ] |
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Those files might not be lost. Here's a Link to a beginners guide to hard disk recovery. Good luck. |
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| Author: | Serge Poirier [ Fri Dec 29, 2006 3:12 pm ] |
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AAAh Man, so sorry to hear that Joe, i hope you can recover your files with Paul's link, let us know how it goes for you please. Serge |
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| Author: | bob J [ Sat Dec 30, 2006 12:13 am ] |
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Hey Paul, Thanks for the link to Great site. hope I never crash but now I know where to go first! I assume site has other great info.
BTW-what method(s) do you all use for bacing up-CD data disks? |
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| Author: | PaulB [ Sat Dec 30, 2006 12:41 am ] |
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Well, I hope that site is useful to you guys. I lost a HD with all my daughters baby pics. First thing to do was do nothing except to read up on data recovery. I found that site and everything turned out ok, got the pics back. I didn't tell my wife until it was a done deal 
I guess the first rule is "don't panic", and don't write anything to the HD until after you've recovered your important data. |
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| Author: | JBreault [ Sat Dec 30, 2006 1:22 pm ] |
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Unfortunately my HDD physically crashed, it isn't readable at all (not a software issue or a formatting issue). I have to wait till Tuesday to see if the computer hardware guru can get into it at all. Hopefully the old freezer trick will work...we'll see. |
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| Author: | PaulB [ Sat Dec 30, 2006 2:47 pm ] |
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What's the old freezer trick? |
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| Author: | bob_connor [ Sat Dec 30, 2006 7:34 pm ] |
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[QUOTE=bob J] BTW-what method(s) do you all use for bacing up-CD data disks?[/QUOTE] Bob I've got an external USB hard drive. I set up a scheduled backup so that it automatically backs up my important data once a week. Another way to do it would be to add another hard drive to your computer and back up on to that. I think it's critical to automate this because the one time you forget to do your backup is probably the time you'll get a hardware failure. If anyone's interested and not sure how to do any of this automated backup stuff I would mind whipping up a step by step pictorial tutorial. Cheers Bob |
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| Author: | Don Williams [ Sun Dec 31, 2006 12:23 am ] |
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Joe, I thought my hard drive had physically crashed too. I got a replacement from Dell (another rebuilt one  ) and installed the two of them.
My IT guy from work leant me software called "GetDataBack for NTFS", and I was able to recover virtually all my picture files and Excel/Word files. It was only OS stuff that was bad for the most part. A lot of people, including the manufacturer will tell you that everything is lost, but that's not necessarily the case.... As others have said, don't panic yet. |
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