Yes, my laptop's hard drive has died, and nothing was backed up. I lost all my financial records, that I kept for quite a few years, my tax stuff, my novel, pictures. My fault; I knew better. When I pick up my laptop, with its new drive, I will also get a flash drive and mend my slackard, lazy ways.
In other news, I got a refund of $75 from my insurance company for an overpayment to my doctor. It went to the dental fund.
Laptop in crisis
May 27th, 2008 at 08:20 pm
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So.. how important is recovering data on it? How "dead" is it?
Some hard drives might still be recoverable, depending on the nature of the failure.
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May 28th, 2008 at 03:36 am 1211942186
First of all, great idea. I have one too.
If it's used to back up, I highly recommend storing it in a protective case of some kind that can cushion against drops and impacts. In the end, it's still a hard drive, and it's as still as fragile as any other hard drives.
Also, all of my personal data that I want to back up is always located in one folder. That way, you can simply drag and drop that one folder into your external hard drive when you want it backed up. (For windows, "My Documents" should do it.) Easy peasy.
May 28th, 2008 at 05:34 am 1211949298
I'm going through a laptop repair myself. I have most things on a flash drive - everything except my Paris pictures. Sigh. The financials are on a flash drive with a password on it. The only thing worse than losing your data to the hard drive gods is losing it to a wicked human being.
May 28th, 2008 at 11:14 pm 1212012895
No, none of my data is recoverable, unless I want to send off the hard drive to some computer genie who will charge $1600.
I did not get either a flash drive or an external drive yet. I am so broke right now. My plan -- until I can afford one -- is to save my documents as attachments in emails to myself -- my email is Yahoo. And I'll save my pictures on Walgreen.com. or on a CD.
Right now I have nothing to save, so it seems easy!
May 29th, 2008 at 03:20 am 1212027630