Hard Drive Crash

[Cozy Monica]

Well my hard drive bit the dust the other day, and man, I have some handy hints for you guys that will save you a LOT of pain some day.

Hint #1: create backups regularly

Hint #2: CREATE BACKUPS REGULARLY

Hint #3: Before paying some tech dude lots of money for data recovery, try what I did... download a copy of Damn Small Linux-N onto a disc, boot your computer with it, and mount your old harddrive and see if any of the information is accessible. You can burn anything you find there onto disc.

If that works, no need to pay anyone!

Hooray for Linux

[Hyballs]

Hi CM, Why is it the damn things don't give you a warning when they are about ready to crash? Leave us with just enough time to back-up our stuff!

[twan]

Originally posted by Hyballs
Hi CM, Why is it the damn things don't give you a warning when they are about ready to crash? Leave us with just enough time to back-up our stuff!

Most of them give a warning, they tend to start having clicking sound when a hardware failure is near.

[razor]

what caused the crash?

[King Porn]

Don't keep your data on your PC / laptop. Store it on a raid server that runs automatic backups.

[joehoya]

Originally posted by Cozy Monica
Well my hard drive bit the dust the other day, and man, I have some handy hints for you guys that will save you a LOT of pain some day.

Hint #1: create backups regularly

Hint #2: CREATE BACKUPS REGULARLY

Hint #3: Before paying some tech dude lots of money for data recovery, try what I did... download a copy of Damn Small Linux-N onto a disc, boot your computer with it, and mount your old hard drive and see if any of the information is accessible. You can burn anything you find there onto disc.

If that works, no need to pay anyone!

Hooray for Linux

I learned this the hard way. My laptop had been giving me signals that the hard drive was about to go (I could hear it grinding, random error codes, etc) but I put off doing anything about it, until it was to late. When it crashed, I had to use Knoppix to recover all of my files that I didn't have saved on a server. It was a major pain in the ass. Now, I've built redundancies in so that even if my laptop is destroyed, I'm back in business in a few minutes.

And x2 for hooray for Linux

[Cozy Monica]

Almost all of my files were backed up on a server, but what I was really hoping to get were a bunch of photos that I didn't have backed up anywhere else.

I need to start backing up things like that.

My harddrive didn't give me any warning at all... it was out of the blue, my computer just *poof*, shut down.