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Old 04-16-2013, 01:32 PM
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Angry Good advice, back up.

Ok, first thing I have to say is "BACK EVERYTHING UP" on your computer. More than once if you can.

I was one of those people who thinks it will never happen to me, but over the last 2 weeks I've been having a nightmare with a broken desktop computer. I am quite good with computers and always repair and upgrade my own systems.

So after filling 2 500Gb hard drives full of data, I thought it was time to put another drive into the computer. I bought a 2Tb sata drive, fitted it in the case, made sure everything was secure. Powered up, NOTHING.

Started to panic.

I took the new drive out, and powered up just with my old drives, NOTHING AGAIN. Not even a beep from the bios.

Really starting to panic.

I took the new drive back to the shop and it was tested as working, but the guy there was good enough to give my money back. But I now have a dead desktop computer. I have tried the old drives in a USB cradle and the drives are not showing any data.

I don't know what caused the whole system to crash, maybe it was just time for my computer to give up on life, a friend now has had the drives for 2 days and he said that one drive is a complete loss, the other one may get some data back.

So back to my first sentence in this post, Please everyone BACK UP ALL YOU'RE DATA. I have lost a lot of photos, card model files, family movies, music, work data, the list go's on.
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Old 04-16-2013, 01:43 PM
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I have to agree, I have been caught as well, now i have a portable hard drive and back up my computers every month without fail
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Old 04-16-2013, 02:02 PM
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I back up to cloud storage now, as well as a portable hard drive.

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Old 04-16-2013, 02:20 PM
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I have a portable hard drive, 500Gb, that's full as well.

Problem with cloud storage is it isn't enough. Unless you pay more for the extra storage.
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Old 04-16-2013, 05:59 PM
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Yeah... "Back up" or it will most certainly get "your Back up"
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Old 04-17-2013, 03:27 AM
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Your right there Peter, nearly through the whole box out the window.
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