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Don't let it happen to you! I just blew my hard drive and lost it all! clipart, fonts, programs, customer files...aaakk! I know what your gonna say back up those files... I did last time...3-15-01 guess I should do it more often
-------------------- Ken McTague, Concept Signs 57 Bridge St. (route 107) Salem MA 01970 1-978-745-5800 conceptsign@yahoo.com http://www.pinheadlounge.com/CaptainKen
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"A wise man once said that, or was it a wise guy?" Posts: 2425 | From: Salem, MA | Registered: Apr 1999
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Ken- Sorry to hear of your loss. I have done that all to many times. I now back up font folder on Cd every month or so. All designs are saved to zip drive. All financial on zip. The rest I can afford to lose.
-------------------- Rob Larkham Rob Larkham Signs & Lettering 21 Middlefield Road Chester, MA. 01011
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Bummer Ken! Although I can't name any off the top of my head I know there are companies out there that specialize in recovering files off crashed hard drives. Most times that can't recover all but a lot of the time they can get a buch off. Might pay to check into it esp. for the customer files. Good luck.
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I agree with Steve. I'm sure someone would be able to recover your files.
I was talking to my computer Guru the other day about the same thing happening to me. He suggested a second "hot swappable" hard-drive setup as a mirror. That way, all of your work is duplicated onto both drives as you work and you can take the removable one home at night as insurance against lost in fire or flood.
I guess you missed my post about 3 weeks ago! the same thing happened to me about 3 weeks ago. I was able to access the directory through DOS though, If you can do the same, you can add the drive into a working computer as a slave drive and drag & drop the files you need on the good drive. If the drive is completely dead, e-mail me tomorrow and I will find the number of a company that was recommended to me for Data recovery. I think it costs around $400.00. They do have a file that you can download that will test your drive to see how bad it really is.
Good luck Ken, I feel your pain
-------------------- Bob Rochon Creative Signworks Millbury, MA 508-865-7330
"Life is Like an Echo, what you put out, comes back to you." Posts: 5150 | From: Millbury, Mass. U.S. | Registered: Nov 1998
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I am going to purchase a Usb 2.0 Hard drive just for backup on all computers. This seems to be the best way to get big storage for all files. With this setup I could even ghost image my main shop's drive and would be able to restore the exact drive info in minutes. Today I burned a couple of cds with just the main sign files and financial data. It would be nice not to have to reinstall and reconfigure everything in case of a hd failure.
-------------------- Wright Signs Wyandotte, Michigan Posts: 2788 | From: Wyandotte, MI USA | Registered: Jan 1999
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Well folks, She was in surgery for 6 hours and had a new hard drive installed, most of her files were saved and re installed although all downloaded programs and Plug-ins are gone, and a borrowed copy of Adobe Type Manager. Looks like shes gonna be ok, could have been alot worse. gonna go get the software for my zip drive and download it , then I will take Robs advise and Back it all up! Bob, thanks for you simpathy, I did get her fixed up for right around 400 bucks
-------------------- Ken McTague, Concept Signs 57 Bridge St. (route 107) Salem MA 01970 1-978-745-5800 conceptsign@yahoo.com http://www.pinheadlounge.com/CaptainKen
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"A wise man once said that, or was it a wise guy?" Posts: 2425 | From: Salem, MA | Registered: Apr 1999
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Dittos to using a duplicate hard drive as a backup. It saved the day last week.
I downloaded some Windows updated drivers for XP from Microsoft and it did something so serious I couldn't even boot the drive. Once a week I spool everything to two additional drives. One in the computer and one that plugs in temporarily. I use Norton Ghost because it is fast. It transfers all 5 gigs in 6 to 7 minutes. One drive is a little slower though.
I don't use the mirrored drive routine because if you get a virus you've got two copies instead of one.
-------------------- Jim Upchurch Artworks Olympia WA Posts: 797 | From: Olympia, WA | Registered: Nov 1998
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Bob, you can get a removable drive bay for about 15 bucks. I'm a big believer of keeping a copy of everything off site for various reasons, theft, fire, meteors (hey, it could happen to me!).
Norton Ghost runs from windows but I don't see how it can back up everything while windows is running so I boot to dos and run it from there.
It is a simple program without many options, just select the source and destination drives and away it goes. I tried the Maxtor equivelent, Maxblast, at Christmas when I upgraded my dad's machine to a 7200 rpm drive. It was going to take hours so I loaded Ghost and was done in ten minutes. I don't know how they do it but it's their best piece of software that I know of.
-------------------- Jim Upchurch Artworks Olympia WA Posts: 797 | From: Olympia, WA | Registered: Nov 1998
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so ken the hard drive fail completly wow! I had my windows 98 with all my files on a 10 gig hard drive and it froze (short for could not work at all). So i took it in had a 60 gig installed and updated to xp with the 10 gig being a d drive. They could not do that at all? With mine i simply copyed and pasted from the old hard drive to the new one. The operating system was gone but the files were still there. that is a big bummer and i know how you feel
-------------------- paul taylor pictougraph images new glasgow, nova scotia paultaylor42@hotmail.com Posts: 80 | From: nova scotia | Registered: Feb 2002
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