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15 years.....gone. Thanks Windows.
Ginsu Victim:
--- Quote from: ChadTower on November 14, 2008, 10:33:54 am --- Don't store valuable data on your OS drive with Windows. Keep them physically separate - not even separate partitions, keep the valuable stuff on a drive you can unplug when there is potential danger.
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Totally different hard drive. Never had a problem like this before, and like I said, it told me it was going to c:\windows, and when it was done, it was now on E: and my C: was untouched (of course, I moved all the important files from C: over to E: before formatting, so there's nothing left on C: even though it didn't get touched)
FrizzleFried:
I picked up a 1TB removable drive just for this kinda stuff. I've got an image of my main computer, and all 3 MAME computers in the garage. I try to keep it at least 90 days current... though 90 days of stuff lost would suck too.
Screw messing with DVD's etc. Removable HD's are so cheap now-a-days it's hard not to justify the purchase.
Ginsu Victim:
I mean, hey, I'm totally at fault here for not taking better precautions, but the least it could've done was formatted and installed on the correct drive.
ChadTower:
And most people can get away with much much smaller than a TB. Frizz is backing up stuff that is replaceable but would be a PITA. If you limit that to just data you cannot recover you'd be surprised how little that tends to be. Movies, music, etc are all nice to have but it's really just the financial stuff, family photos, the stuff that is yours that absolutely must be backed up.
Ginsu Victim:
First thing my wife said is, "You lost my photos?!?"
Luckily, it looks like those I'll be able to recover.
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