Always Back-up Your Harddrives!!!
 

Just recovering from the worst weekend ever.

My main C: drive literally blew up! It made the crazies sounds.
I had only back up things that were important to me like photos of my family.

I lost all a major chunk of content, contacts, un/pw, submit passes, programs that were customized to my flavor, videos and many more things that come up as I work.

I lost my ARLES gallery maker. I lost all my email archives.

Oh well, I see this as a new beginning.

I am using Open Office, Thunderbird email and many new programs I would have never used.

I'll be contacting a lot of my sponsors throughout the week.

This won't always save your data but if more people checked the S.M.A.R.T. status on their drives this kind of thing wouldn't happen so often.

It probably takes less than a minute to download, install, and check your drives.
http://www.hdtune.com/

my hd crashed too. sucks ass. would like to recover that shit

that sucks. I had that happen and then backed up stuff on seperate drives incase one goes down.

i back up to DVD once a week

Thanks

Iam using it right now. Cool tool

hmmmm im going to look into somtheeing turnkey that we camn set up to image a pc..like a pc backup account =))

the same happened few years ago to me (was just listening to mp3s from my harddrive), it took some time to set everything up again, and then came a successful period for my work

No Problem. I'm sure you'll be glad you used it when you see one of your drives is going bad and buy another before the bad one completely fails on you.

backing up email and important stuff every week on usb drives and dvd

Ive learned, got backups from 97 on now

Damn! It sucks to hear that, man. I make sure I always have my back-up here.

Always a good point to do so for sure

I sleep better with RAID1 than a backup

had same shit happen to me a year or so ago, not a fun time :-/

it happens to me last month, damn, but now i've make sure backup files

Sorry to hear, I have experiece that problem in the past too. Now I use Acronis to do my hd cloning

I've lost so many hard drives back in the day that it wasn't funny. So I got smart.

1) All of my links, passwords, etc, are all stored on a local start page - in HTML. Every Saturday I burn this start page (now it's own site really) to CD.
2) Any pictures I take are backed up to CD the same day.
3) Any pictures I download from Al Gore's Interwebby thinger I store in one folder on my computer, and every saturday I upload these to a server.

Email is all done through company email, and my personal email goes through gmail.

I keep all of the original copies of all software I need.

I can loose a hard drive and start operating off of a new computer instantly without skipping a beat.

sucks not to... hope things work out great man!

I learned that lesson a long long time ago. I lost a laptop HD this year and had everything backed up luckily....

Acronis True Image Workstation - Use it.

Managed to stabalize my harddrive for a few hours. Pulled out a lot of stuff that I needed. Still life is sucking.

I use for that Norton Ghost and no problemo

i am fighting a virus on my main computer..trying to back everything up before i format the drive :(

http://www.drivesavers.com
It cost me $2500 but they were able to save 100% of my fried drive

that fucking sucks, it's like starting over from scratch.

I got a virus that ended up frying my hard drive about 6 months ago. I lost a ton of shit and it was a real pain in the ass to replace it. I bought a program called Ghost 10 that makes a mirror of your hard drive and use it every couple of weeks. It's pretty sweet.

Serves you right for being an idiot

terrible situation, the percentage of the HDD crashs is very high, so the only one solution is backup. I'm using personally the freeware archival utility www.7-zip.com, which i may configure and use it in the my BAT files, so my backups are small and crypted via 256b AES (7z is very feature rich compressor)

hrmn i should start backing up my harddrives
this scares me

that sucks... about 2 years ago i had same problem... :(