Friendly BACKUP Reminder

Let this be a reminder to all to backup your stuff! Frequently! Don't put it off saying; "I'll do it later."

Later will sneak up on you and then, well, let's just say you won't be a happy camper.

:banghead:

[eagle1]

lol ...

I must ask myself, why did you post this??!?!?!?!?

hehehehe something happenned ER?

[Dax_Brandy]

hmmm, are you a victim?

i backup only the important documents and burn to a CD-R. right now i consolidate all downloaded utilities, drivers and updates as well and burn to a cd-r.

I can neither confirm nor deny that I may be in a very poor mood right now. :|

Xaotic has given me a link to what l think might put me in a lot better mood.

The story . . .

Yesterday, doing my morning thing and the power goes off for like 1 second. No big deal, it's happend before, my PC's are set in the BIOS to go to the state they were in before power failure.
I sit down at my desk and think; "Today I'm going to install 2K back on this thing and have some real speed." Anyway, I copy e-mails over to my BACKUP folder, all the time thinking; "When I'm done, I'm going to clean up this 10GB's of stuff I have."
I get the 100MB's or so of e-mails copied to the appropriate folders and am ready to power down, which I do.
I power on and go into the BIOS and set to boot from CD-ROM, put in the 2K Pro CD and am on my way. During the boot process, there's always a delay when it gets to the onboard RAID recognizing drives and looking for arrays . . . Uh-oh, I get an error that Array 1 is non-functional. WTH? Nothing's changed. I just copied files over to the freakin' drives, can't be anything wrong w/ them.
Well, long story short, the array was hosed. Not sure why, my only guess is the power going out.
I sat for like 30 minutes just hoping it needed a rest and when I powered back on for the 100th time it would magically appear. Ha! I wish.
I eventually had to delete my array and build a new one. I tried creating one before deleting the old, but it wouldn't let me grab the drive that was showing as working in the other array. D-word, D-word, D-word!!! (You know me, those were other 4-letter words)
I went ahead and reinstalled 2K. A couple of times, going into Disk Defragment I could see the 40GB RAID0 drive but I couldn't do anything w/ it. I tried chkdsk, no avail. It found a whole bunch of fragments, like 10,000 or so.
Now, I'm letting the drives get scanned by the software that Xaotic pointed me to. I let it scan a little and it found some MP3's. w00t! I had about 10 or so MP3's! (Hackers soundtrack)
I'm not getting too excited, but I'm hoping to at least recover some e-mails.
I'll keep everybody posted on my success/failure.

I almost forgot the link to the software . . .

http://www.pcinspector.de/file_recovery/UK/welcome.htm

[elroy]

My condolences, I've been in the same situation and it did not turn out well.

Ever-so-often I'll think of something else I'd like to recover.

I wouldn't wish this upon anybody . . . well, maybe one other member. You know who you are.

[I2n0ld]

thanx for d reminder. hope u recover ure files.

[Uncle Bob]

I feel fortunate. Yesterday at about 4:15 PM had a thunder storm roll through. had a power hit shut down the whole house. My 'puter is on one of those Belkin surge protectors with a battery
back up. About 15 minutes to save and shut down.