Catastrophic Hard drive failure - backup your precious memories
My external harddrive has decided to stop working, the power light is on but there’s nobody home – no matter which computer I attach it to.
Alas it is the only copy I have of many of my photographs and digital art from the last 3 years and also many financial records which we maintain in a spreadsheet.
I am hoping by some miracle to be able to get it going once to copy over the contents. Hoping to get the drive started if I remove it and slave it to my desktop computer. A
Luckily all my writing from the past 5 years is also on my laptop and backed up on cd so I don’t have to worry about it.
But it has taught me a valuable lesson. Backup your files more than once people. It is so easy to lose your precious memories and work in an instant.
Celia Coulter
Luckily, slaving the external drive internally in my desktop computer worked. Phew!!
Just to be sure I have copied everything to another external drive and I will start backing up my best work at the weekend on DVD-rom.
Crisis averted!!
brendanscully
Um….buy an external drive (300G – costs $300.00 maybe less) and back up every month, keep the back up drive at your mums place, this way if your lap top is stolen or your house burns down you can get content up and running as soon as you buy another laptop. :o)
Celia Coulter replied
I have a new external drive but connecting the old one as a drive in my husbands computer worked too. I now have a copy on my external drive and his computer. But I have been a bit lax with backing up again. Your post has reminded me I should be doing it regularly.
Like the idea of leaving a backup at someone elses house too. Will have to look into that. Thankyou
brendanscully
:o)