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PostPosted: 16-May-2002 04:04    Post subject: Computer horror story Reply to topic Reply with quote



Never, never, NEVER, format one of your hard drive without making a backup copy on CD first.

I thought it was fairly safe to format one of my drives, the one that I had Windows on, after all, I figured out I had only to move a couple of folders to the other drive.

Wrong.

I lost all my bookmarks, ICQ address and my whole mailbox, meessages,address...everything.
That was stupidity.


And it's very easy to miss something. I lost my complete website folder. I could download back most of it, but I lost a good deal of stuff.
That was plain incompetence.



Thinking about killingmyself now.


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PostPosted: 16-May-2002 07:56    Post subject: Computer horror story Reply to topic Reply with quote

It`s the kind of thing that happens. Don`t
be sad, think of it as an opportunity. Now
you can look for all those nice websites
again and leave out the ones that sucked.
Spring cleaning.


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PostPosted: 16-May-2002 09:48    Post subject: Computer horror story Reply to topic Reply with quote

Opinion of a cynical network engineer; lost data happens.

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PostPosted: 17-May-2002 19:59    Post subject: Computer horror story Reply to topic Reply with quote

I feel your pain. I just got hit with a Worm. Lost all Doc's, Txt's and half my MP3's

Sir Henry, looking for backups...

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PostPosted: 17-May-2002 22:47    Post subject: Computer horror story Reply to topic Reply with quote

Something like that won't happen too often to me...

I ordered a 120GB hard Drive and an 80GB USB HarDrive...

My PCs are all ready for scrweing up... I have backups of backups of backups.

I found a great website for ordering inexpensive Computer Hardware & Software...

http://www.pricewatch.com

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