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leprechaun_40
02-24-2003, 12:35 AM
Had a bit of a scare this afternoon. I was doing system maintainance and such. I ran scandisk on all the drives and set about to do defragging. All was well with my C: drive but when it came to D: it said it couldn't do it as the drive had errors and I should run scandisk. Hmm, just did that, so I thought, well, I'll do it again and see. Went to run it and it died, there was NO FAT, NO media descriptor, nothing, just 980Mb of unusable stuff on a now unusable drive. Great, all my installers, pictures and so on are on this drive, I use it as DATA storage and all my little files and such I get from the net. Luckily, I had run a tape backup just about a week and a half ago and also had some things backed up on CD also.

I set the tape to restore and went to work, once I got home, all was well except for a couple files which I got off the cd.

It's good to have backups and have them on more than one media:D

Hope you have backups, I'd have been really upset and hurting if I hadn't. :eek:
bassman
02-24-2003, 04:57 AM
No doubt backups are essential...If you want to try to get your data out of the dead HD, try Ontrack's Easy Recovery (http://www.ontrack.com/easyrecoverydatarecovery/index.asp), it worked on a post mortem IBM ;)
rraehal
02-24-2003, 02:46 PM
I hate it when that happens!

:mad:
stix_kua
02-24-2003, 03:37 PM
I had a similar experience but my backups were also bad...only the backup of my backups were good....on some days, life sucks...........
Midknyte
02-24-2003, 03:43 PM
If you ever want a job in IT, the first lesson is backup, backup, backup. I just had to restore 2 files from tapes last week. Most of the people in our office know we are the computer geeks, but that's it. The staff doesn't know how valuable you are until save their asses. :rolleyes:
bassman
02-25-2003, 06:27 PM
Originally posted by Midknyte
The staff doesn't know how valuable you are until save their asses. :rolleyes:
It's quite strange that they don't know "us" (not me anymore, only school for now ;))...we save their behinds so often that you'd expect them to know your dog's name :p :D