500 Gigs and 7 years ...
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- barbtastic0
If my house was burning down I'd go for my laptop first.
Jaline
(Jul 10 06, 10:26)
--------------------when my house burnt down i went for the cat and the imac. both made it out safely.
- Jaline0
I'm hoping mine isn't actually my hard drive. At first I didn't care about the actual laptop...I just wanted my information to be okay. And it turns out the problem is probably my motherboard or cpu, therefore meaning that I can either get a new laptop or a new motherboard and school is taking too much money from me that I can't buy a new laptop altogether.
- Rand0
do you back your laptop up?
because those fuckers are fragile and die at any time
- e-pill0
why is everyone's hard drive dieing this week??
- Jaline0
If my house was burning down I'd go for my laptop first.
- joyride0
I've lost data once. That is all it took. I now have all important files on a seperate drive, non-OS.
I've got another internal drive with a backUp OS. So i can boot my machine and get the files and/or work off the secondary OS.
I burn backups of my clients folder & mail every season and put that in my fire safe. I've got an external enclosure that I drop a HD in and back everything up once a year and put that in my fire safe. Yeah, it's a bit much, but losing data sucks sucks sucks! Ialways say, you'll lose data once and then you learn your lesson.If you think about it, it's only going to get worse. From here on out your going to need to store more & more data for the rest of your life. Might as well get into a good habit now.
What they need is an external HD Enclosure that is also fireproof... ok you read that here first. Off to the patient office!
- enjine0
thanks son...
Rand, nope. I started with 150 gig or something like that, and continuously rolled over all of the files as i got bigger hard drives. i have older versions of the drive, as it got rolled over, but really it's the past 5 or so months of work that are so much more important than the older stuff.
- enjine0
"what the hell is with all this bad stuff happening to you?"
exactly. i have no idea. but it keeps getting worse and worse... lower and lower.
honestly, i found this card a few months ago in the street. it was a Magic-like card (the game). it was on the corner of like Broadway and 21st.
It was purple, and had this dude holding this mass of energy in front of his chest. And the name of the card:
Absolute End
Basically you take all of your energy and turn it against yourself. --i don't play these games, but i thought it was a pretty wicked card and put it in my pocket. Put it on my wall then and then packed it with all of my stuff when i moved a month ago.
i think this fucking Absolute End card is cursing me, and i can't fucking find it in my boxes since moving.
- Rand0
ARE YOU FUCKIN KIDDIN ME?
- son0
dang,
i see things like that like this...
first apt. i ever had. was filled w/ either poetry or rap/hiphoplyrics scattered around the house, i said i'ma get all them papers soon... before i knew it, all my stuff clothes everything up in flames...
so exhausted from the expierence couldnt even get mad... just felt bad.
oh well...this is the start of a new beginning...it has to be unless you wanna go backwards...
oh well..
God Bless you -
- brandboy0
sorry to hear that enj, what the hell is with all this bad stuff happening to you?
fuck
- brandboy0
you're too late horton
- horton0
holy crap 7 years !!! you guys are crazy gambling all that on a little spinning disk.
backup everything. clone to a 2nd HD as much as possible and get into a regular routine of offloading files to DVD.
- jaylarson0
bring it to the geek squad. there ain't much they can't do. they are fo' shizzle! saved my ass several times.
- canuck0
really. hmm sounds good to me,
thank
- enjine0
canuck, you don't need another mac. just get a small format harddrive enclosure (USB or Firewire) and plug it in to any other computer. should cost you like 50 bux
- mbr0
yeah, losing stuff sucks.
I am using iBackUp.com which has an automated backup, which I've set for my most important folders. It's about $100-120 a year for 5 gigs. There are free services, too, PCMag just did an article on them.
It's nice 'cause you dn't have to worry about losing the data if you get a virus (as with an ext hd).
Good luck
- canuck0
My ibook died recently, so I can't access what is on the drive.
However the drive should still be working, I just need to get another mac and switch it. Can't really afford that so, I guess I have lost a bunch of shit too :(
- Jaline0
Yeah, it sucks A LOT when your whole portfolio goes down the drain. Happened to me a few years ago but luckily I had nothing worth flaunting in there.