by dirk8837 » Fri Jul 10, 2009 9:05 pm
i recently had major puter issues and tbh i still am not sure its fixed but so far touch wood it seems to be ok, tbh i very rarely back up anything at all, instead i try to keep all of my important stuff on different hard drives, ie i have one hard drive with windows and programs on it but i try my best not to store anything else on it and instead keep all my stuff on an external drive and 4 other internal ones. I had been lazy for awhile though so when my computer did decide to have problems i still lost well over 100 gigs worth of stuff, to say i was not happy is somewhat of an understatment, and i am trying to get some of it back but tbh i dont think i will ever be able to get it all again.
Tbh i think the main problem you are going to have will be with your windows drive this is why i only keep windows and programs on it, then if you do have a problem its only windows and your programs you need to reinstall, your important data is safe on a different drive, about a year ago i did have an external drive break on me but 9 times out of 10 it is the enclousure that breaks and not the HD itself so i was able to take the HD out of the enclousure and put it inside my system and all was ok with it, so if you do ever have problems with an external drive remember its always best to take it out of the enclousure and try it inside your machine before you write it off.
At the moment i have windows on a 200 gig drive, then i have 4 extra internal ones, a 1000 gig, a 500 gig, a 160 gig and a 120 gig and then i have a 500 gig external drive.
With HD's so cheap at the moment wansbrough i would just get yourself another one, i recently saw a 500 gig external seagate drive for £49.99 in currys but i have seen 1TB internal drives for about the £50 mark online, even the samsung F1 spinpoint is only £57.95 for 1 TB, if this is a bit to much then you can get lower capacity drives for next to nothing online and it really does save your bacon. If i hadnt had most of my stuff on different drives then i would have lost alot more than 100 gig.
The other option is to partition your main drive, this doesnt help you if you have a HD failure but if you need to reinstall windows then at least the stuff on your second partition is safe.