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Originally Posted by Turboface
I tear through keyboards and mouses every few months but my hard drive here has been faithful to me for a little over 4 years now. I got the dreaded 'blue screen of death' a couple nights ago and have been dealing with all the fun that goes with that since.
Real long story, short: The drive crashed - nothing I tried could recover it - I bought a new drive - All is fine now, except I have to start all over (which isn't all bad, I am getting all the newest versions of everything.)
I've been reading up on some software that will help me in my data recovery efforts. Also, I've been looking at some data recovery services.
Do you guys have any advice?
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To kill future problems and avoid having to build a "homestead" again - seriously suggest you invest in something like Acronis TrueImage. This will do a sector by sector mirror image of your primary drive (tho can be used on any drive) and write the mirror to a secondary drive (it's compressed well and nothing like the size of content on the primary). There is also an option (recommended) to write an Acronis boot CD which would obviously be needed if your drive goes again.
Instead of spending hours restoring, it takes around 20 mins to recover all progs, data and set the OS and registry back to the stage on the last Acronis mirror. Well worth it
