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15 years.....gone. Thanks Windows.
Ginsu Victim:
Level42:
I was wondering how long it would take you to say it.
leapinlew:
Ouch!
I learned this lesson once. When I format a computer nowadays, I make sure the only drive in it is the drive I intend on formatting.
Luckily, my lesson didn't have as high of a price.
danny_galaga:
--- Quote from: saint on November 14, 2008, 10:53:42 am ---Painful lesson I know. C: doesn't mean anything, it's the drive number and partition to pay attention to. Sorry man.
What I do is have a server on the network that I copy files off to periodically. That's primary backup. Then really important files, such as family pictures that are only digital, get copied to my thumb drive or portable hard drive, and brought to work and copied onto my work machine. Multiple backups in different locations FTW.
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here here. i keep a complete backup on a secondary hard drive, but also a USB hard drive. kept away from the computer. we getted burgled, ive still got the drive. we have a fire, its the first thing im grabbing. im in the process of scanning old pics too. it would suck to lose all that work.
bummer ginsu, you had the right idea in a separate hard drive. weird, weird windows. time to switch to mac or linux ;)
patrickl:
--- Quote from: danny_galaga on November 15, 2008, 03:42:09 am ---bummer ginsu, you had the right idea in a separate hard drive. weird, weird windows. time to switch to mac or linux ;)
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I don't know about a Mac, but Linux is just as dangerous.
Still the whole point is moot. If you depend on a single hard disk for your important files then you can only blame yourself. Hard disks fail, it's only a matter of when. Or that you click yes when it asks you to format the wrong drive.
Space Fractal:
Linux is worse than Windows about data loss, when something went wrong on the hardrive. If you fortmat in Linux, the change to recover a formatted drive is same as 0. On Windows only index is really formatted, and you can still recover files with a recover applications which typical cost around 30-50$. Try the demos of them first, if they can find the files, then it whould recover them with the full version. Demo versions typical max recover 64kb of each file.
Make Sure NOT to write ANYTHING on the harddrive, because the demanged files might been overwrite, so you need second harddrive to move your files to.
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