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Dear Sirs and Maddams
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Celtic_Emperor
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Yes, I know. Keyword being "before". Current and older files, especially key ones are already backed up and have been for some time. The problem occured before I could save the freshed material (things that were only a few days old), and thats ok really.The reason I actually had any concern about this was on the slight chance I may have forgotten to back something important up, which in retrospect, I didn't. This whole experience actually left me better off technically and personally, and thats good.
Enclosures definitely make the process faster though, thats for sure. I'll have to make it a point to invest in one.
Enclosures definitely make the process faster though, thats for sure. I'll have to make it a point to invest in one.
Kalamos
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Two.
Make it two.
If you're breaking the bank for one, you can afford two.
Two enclosures come in handy when you need to swap datas between your hds, and your main hd is nearly dying: with two external hds you can move files without actually having them reside on a damaged unit, so you're not straining your older hd, but you can squeeze a bit more out of it.
Also, you could devote one of those external units as an alternate boot drive: newer bios revisions allow for flashcard and usb drive boot - you could bypass a damaged internal unit altogether.
Finally, keeping system files on a different partition from you personal datas might help too: hds don't wear out all of a sudden. If you're lucky they'll first develop bad clusters on the most used partition first. Namely, windows's.
If your personal files were on a different partition, you could simply backup you documents and settings folder, reformat the c: partition, and bring it back to life from a backup.
With a backup boot hd [or a backup windows install on a d: partition] you could do this without ever disassembling the main unit.
Make it two.
If you're breaking the bank for one, you can afford two.
Two enclosures come in handy when you need to swap datas between your hds, and your main hd is nearly dying: with two external hds you can move files without actually having them reside on a damaged unit, so you're not straining your older hd, but you can squeeze a bit more out of it.
Also, you could devote one of those external units as an alternate boot drive: newer bios revisions allow for flashcard and usb drive boot - you could bypass a damaged internal unit altogether.
Finally, keeping system files on a different partition from you personal datas might help too: hds don't wear out all of a sudden. If you're lucky they'll first develop bad clusters on the most used partition first. Namely, windows's.
If your personal files were on a different partition, you could simply backup you documents and settings folder, reformat the c: partition, and bring it back to life from a backup.
With a backup boot hd [or a backup windows install on a d: partition] you could do this without ever disassembling the main unit.
Celtic_Emperor
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Thank you for all the suggestions and sound advice, Kalamos. I appriciate it 🙂
And now....I'm off to eat dinner. Writing those new art request rules for my forum took longer than I thought it would. I was pretty thorough about it though, so I won't have to do it again in the near future.
And now....I'm off to eat dinner. Writing those new art request rules for my forum took longer than I thought it would. I was pretty thorough about it though, so I won't have to do it again in the near future.
