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Sunday, August 09, 2009

UPDATE

The dog and I are the only ones awake. Graham was up most of the night and has managed to get my system limited connectivity, so I can still just about get online with the office computer. I can't print, I can only access my emails online, (and I seem to have lost an enormous trenche of them), and I am still discovering stuff that I have lost (if that isn't too much of an oxymoron).

I feel completely numb. Most of the work I have done for the last eight months is lost, and only time will tell whether I shall be able to replace it. David and I are going to PC World later on this morning to see if they can recover the data from the buggered drive.

I have my doubts.
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2 comments:

Syd said...

You have my heart felt sympathy regarding the loss of data. It happened to me several months ago and I lost much valuable information. Fortunately a local computer firm (at a price) were able to recover quite a bit - around 75% - of the info lost when the hard drive went down.

The only advice I can offer, is that when you get things sorted out, BACK-UP everything you write, to disc.
DO NOT rely on one set of back-up discs / CDs / DVDs. Make multiple back-ups.
Keep at least one back-up copy of everything, somewhere other than your own address. Reason being that you never know in what form a disaster may strike ie. Fire, Lightning strike, Flood, etc.
Granted, it takes time to do all the back-ups and DVD / CD discs are not cheap but it is a damn sight easier and cheaper than loosing vital info.

1:26 PM
Retrieverman said...

I can't imagine also having to prepare for a major event at the same time, which also relies upon this technology.

This is why I e-mail all of my important documents as attachments and use the USB jump drives regularly.

3:54 PM

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