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Tip Of The Week Archive To The Rescue! - 3/3/08
Tip Of The Week Archive To The Rescue! - 3/3/08 
To The Rescue! - 3/3/08What to do when your hard drive crashes and you think you’ve lost all your photos |
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 Just last week, I had an experience that I knew was bound to happen eventually (even though I always secretly hoped it never would). My hard drive failed. I was searching for an archived photo on an external disk, and in midsearch, the computer locked up and I had to reboot. I don’t know which came first—the crash or the drive failure—but it didn’t really matter: my disk was no longer readable. The good news is that I have a duplicate backup on optical media, so after I download the data from the 33 DVDs that are my backup’s backup I should be back to square one. But what do you do if you don’t have a backup for your backup? Or even worse what if you haven’t even downloaded the photos yet and the CompactFlash card fails? How do you recover your data? There’s a lot of great information online for do-it-yourselfers, like the info at www.harddrive-repair.com, but I’m a bit too timid to disassemble a disk, and I’m not yet ready to send it in for a professional to work on. Sure, there are also plenty of programs out there that are designed for data recovery—some even come standard with the purchase of CF cards—but what experiences have you had with them? Do you have any favorite programs perhaps, or maybe a horror story that turned into a miraculous recovery? What did you learn from your data-rescue experience, and how do you do things differently now? I know one thing: I’ll never again complain about having to backup my backup. And I may investigate a speedier method than the 33 DVDs. Photo courtesy of www.harddrive-repair.com   |
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