[OT] A reminder to back-up your PC
 

Totally OT, but every once ina while we need remidners to do things that
seem trivial t the time but will save us a lot of grief if something goes
wrong.

I tried to boot my PC this morning, and it told me I needed to boot frm a
boottable disk. We did have a power cut some time in the night, so I figured
it simply hadn't shut down properly. I hit 'reset' and tried again. Same
thing. So I jiggled the hard drive, and pressed the power button once more.
Still getting the same error. Remembering I had an ancient hard drive
(running Windows 98) sititng there in my computer case, doing nothing, I
plugged the various cords in and rebooted once more, this time with success.
Using Windows 98, I managed to access the big hard drive and copy all my
precious photos onto our external hard drive.

It now seems to be working again, but for how long is anyone's guess. I
won't be *happy* when the big hard drive goes kaboom (as seems inevitable
now), but at least I'll have all my precious digital photos. The rest is
replacable.

So, if you haven't done it already, take the time and back up at least the
important stuff.

Yowie
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[OT] A reminder to back-up your PC
 

Yowie kirjoitti:
Totally OT, but every once ina while we need remidners to do things that
seem trivial t the time but will save us a lot of grief if something goes
wrong.

I tried to boot my PC this morning, and it told me I needed to boot frm a
boottable disk. We did have a power cut some time in the night, so I figured
it simply hadn't shut down properly. I hit 'reset' and tried again. Same
thing. So I jiggled the hard drive, and pressed the power button once more.
Still getting the same error. Remembering I had an ancient hard drive
(running Windows 98) sititng there in my computer case, doing nothing, I
plugged the various cords in and rebooted once more, this time with success.
Using Windows 98, I managed to access the big hard drive and copy all my
precious photos onto our external hard drive.

It now seems to be working again, but for how long is anyone's guess. I
won't be *happy* when the big hard drive goes kaboom (as seems inevitable
now), but at least I'll have all my precious digital photos. The rest is
replacable.

So, if you haven't done it already, take the time and back up at least the
important stuff.

Yowie

I have a 500 Gb external hard drive, and as my internal one is only
about 150 Gb, I can make an entire disc image copy onto the external one
as backup.
Actually I just got this idea, as earlier I had copied just bits and
pieces, but it would be simple to take a disc image now and then and
ditch the old version...

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Christine in Finland
christal63 (at) gmail (dot) com