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I tried looking to see where and if I had mentioned this, but couldn't find it

About 3 mths ago, my hubby swearing he knew what he was doing, did a non-destruct update to my hard drive.
Killed it dead as a dodo, and nowt was back up either roll evil
He was gutted, but to me it was like someone had died. I would wake in the night with thoughts of something on the drive that I had lost. 6+ years of digital art work and photo's, documents for work, data for bank accounts, along with all my files for work of which I have managed to re-coup some of them.
Anyway he sent it of to a data recovery place locally who inturn disappointed by saying they was nothing that their $50 scan picked up.
Off to the big guys in Novato . . . . so lucky to live in the Silicon Valley and have it right on our doorstep mrgreen
They just called with their findings of, they think all our data recovered. Disc is somewhat fried , but wasn't go to use it again anyway roll
Now the bad news
$2187 shock shock
So I have to look at it like this
I had somewhere in the region of 10,000 image files on that machine. Lets for arguments sake say I would have developed half of those files. (You take more pictures with digi)
5000 divided by 24 = 208 X $12 = $2500 so I am up by 313 bucks, so as I am in such a good mood, I off to shop mrgreen

Typical woman... :razz:

mrgreen Typical "Smart" Woman mrgreen roll roll

Smart if you had backed it up lol

could not resist that one rofl

That would be hubby's job

An external backup drive would have cost you about $150 - $250. I invested in one about a year ago when our drive corrupted - I got most of it back myself and the rest, I wrote off as unnecessary - it was only e-mails from a period of about 5 months. I'd have been gutted like you if I'd lost my image files.

Now the computer backs itself up every night at around 1 am and you can go back and restore it to any date from the first day it started. The backup drive is not even a quarter full yet.

It's a Maxtor OneTouch but you can probably get a better one than this - it's a nice drive but the Retrospect software it comes with is crap - it eats up system resources asking if you want to do a One-Touch backup every second roll

Hope the price tag didn't hurt too much - they are never cheap and I've talked a couple of people at work into not bothering with those companies. Yes they are good (clean room and they pull your drive apart bit by bit (literally it would seem) to get what they can from them. You are doubly lucky that the first place you sent it to did not bugger it up further - if they'd run some software recovery tool, it might have made it irretrievable forever.

Dont store that much but must remember to back up my favourites on a disc last time the comp died i lost britnet for 2 days

Now That's a typical woman :roll: :mrgreen:

Well I'm not really allowed to touch the internal workings of the machine, just like he's not allowed to clean the oven

If you want your data backing up, then it is your job to ensure it is done.

Talk to me next week about online backups :)

Regards
Nigel

There's a joke there, but I'll resist.

Backups? I'll not bore you with my backup procedures. It's overwhelming.

Andrew

Its done now, I have 2x 80gb drives now in place , care of hubby. He wont be doing anything like this again.
I can believe this man is head hunted for 'computer skills' :roll: :lol: :lol:

Everyone is allowed an off-day in the I.T. world - except the users.

I have to say getting a external back up drive is worth. After the initial long back up you can generally set it to automatically back up any files that have been changed or added.

I bought 1 for $150 and then my laptop started having problems booting, fortuitous indeed!!!

I imagine MacZ's backup procedures are a tad more complex...and elongated..