My Hard disk crash: The Resolution

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avidgator — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 23:28:40 GMT

Have you considered a good Home Server? I hear there is one in late beta phases from a company called Microsoft? Nightly backups, etc.

More information at:

http://blogs.technet.com/homeserver/default.aspx

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Jeremy Kane — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 23:30:51 GMT

I have been using Mozy (www.mozy.com) for a few months, and became a true believer (and paying customer) after my HD died a few weeks after I had started using the free account. Because of that free account, I didn't lose any of the photos we'd taken since my son's birth 5 years ago (and that is ALL of the photos we've taken of 2 of our 3 kids). Free account is limited to a couple of gigs, and paid (~$60 a year) is unlimited. My backup is at 12-13 GB right now, and updates any files that change (according to filters and folder selections) minutes after they change. I'm more than pleased with Mozy!

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Fred Beiderbecke — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 23:43:20 GMT

Check out this gizmo. It is great to have around.

http://www.granitedigital.com/catalog/pg64_usbtosataidebridge.htm

It has saved me a time or two.

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rickbrew — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 00:51:59 GMT

I also had a hard drive crash, within 2 months ago.

My new solution? 4 hard drives (yeah, this ain't no laptop!). 1st to boot off and put apps on, then 1x 500gb for data I want backed up, 1x500gb for the backups, and 1x500gb for data I don't care about backing up.

I use the backup center thing that's built in to Vista to do the nightly backup.

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Brian Hampson — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 01:15:01 GMT

@rickbrew.. If it's not a laptop:

MIRRORed HDDs

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Benjamin Harrell — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 02:48:23 GMT

Hey Brad!

I've been using MOZY.com for a few weeks now and very happy with the setup. I bought a single 2 year license for about $100 and I just sync all of my files to one shared folder on my desktop and it uploads the differences every night.

Good Luck!

-Ben

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Chris J. Breisch — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 04:34:32 GMT

Told ya you'd like GetDataBack. Best disk recovery system there is that's less than $1,000.

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Kyralessa — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 05:20:06 GMT

I had a panic just like this a year or so ago, when I found that my server hard drive was having problems. It contained tons of pictures of my kid. As it turned out, I was able to add it as a second hard drive to another system and get them off (and then get it replaced), but it was nerve-wracking.

Of all people, you'd think us programmers would know better than anybody how important it is to have good backups! And yet so many of us have stories like this to tell (often with less happy endings)...

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JT — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 16:00:31 GMT

Good to hear the software worked for you. My drive crashed a few months ago. Took it to a place called CBL data recovery, only cost me $500 and they got all of my data. Here's the website in case you're interested.

http://www.cbltech.com

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Maverick — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 22:39:20 GMT

I would highly recommend Mozy for online backups as well. I've got it running on two computers and it works extremely well.

Interesting Finds: June 28, 2007

Jason Haley — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 01:02:39 GMT

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Jimmy Bergmark — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 08:54:00 GMT

I too can recommend Mozy. Really great.

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Adam Machanic — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 19:20:08 GMT

And solution #5: Never again buy one of Dell's consumer-grade notebooks. Saying that they're garbage is much too kind.

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rickbrew — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 22:58:44 GMT

@Brian Hampson -- these drives run hot. The longer I can keep one of them powered down the better.

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zzz — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 04:34:08 GMT

All serious geeks have WinHex for reasons too many to list here. One of them being recovery/imaging.

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Benjamin — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 22:13:26 GMT

Wow first, off sorry to hear about your hard drive woes. I've had the same thing happen to me on one laptop, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laptop and two desktops over the last couple of years.

I have never tried any of the recovery software, http://www.reference.com/search?q=software out there and preferred to pull the drive out and destroy it with my bare hands out of frustration. Fortunately for me I found Computer Giants online who basically sell any and all types of media storage for your computer. I've bought a ton of hard drives from them as well as some memory and a few enclosures. You can check out their site here, http://www.computergiants.com/ if you ever need to.

I still prefer to just replace failed drives and such since I back up my files every other day that' much easier for me.

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Tenzin — Sat, 11 Aug 2007 12:53:30 GMT

For physical crash Hard-disk please check the www.hdrconline.com. They are having good tools for platter exchange and read write exchange tools.

Tenzin

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