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| Re: I should mention by Tansin A. Darcos (TDARCOS) 09/30/2012, 5:29pm PDT | ||||
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| "I feel your pain." - William Jefferson Clinton
I started backing up my important files and stuff I collected to another drive ever since I messed up about a year ago, in which I had an external hard drive with my entire digital rips of my music collection - including the stuff that I and several million other people "stole" via the original Napster - on top of my computer and stupido me moved the underlying computer without removing the external drive first. It fell off and "clunked" on the floor, becoming an expensive paperweight. And the thing was, I had backups of everything. In the backup disks I lost when the sheriff evicted me because my landlord didn't pay his mortgage and the guy I paid to watch for the paperwork covering this screwed me over. I had forgotten I didn't have the backups. I have about 4 CDs of MP3s as partial backup, so out of several thousand songs I had maybe six hundred backed up, if that. But what was more stupid was I didn't have a copy of those files. Now, I basically have everything in at least two places. I have a 2TB SATA hard drive on one computer, and I have an NAS box - about the size of a paperback book - on a windowsill connected by wire to the router, with 1TB which I use as a primary file server. It's there for a reason, I do not open that window and it's at least eight feet away in an area I don't go near, so I can't mess it up by putting my thumb-fingered hands on it and drop it or knock it over. And, as it turned out, I lucked out, the original hard drive that about 40 GB of files was stored on, became inaccessible when Windows stopped working for no reason, but after I had copied all of the important files on that drive elsewhere. I need to take that machine apart, and connect the drive to the external 3.5" IDE USB case I picked up a couple weeks ago for the ridiculously low price of $4.95. (I note the cheapest external box for a 3.5" SATA is around $15; the $4.95 eternal SATA usb case is only for a 2.5" (notebook) drive. So then, turning that drive into an external, I can use it as a backup drive to some extent and probably just get rid of the computer, it's a 32-bit HP Pavillion with Windows XP home, the drive has 160GB with about 30GB free, and 1GB of memory which doesn't offer a lot of things I can do on it. Since I can't figure out how to find the restore partition for Windows and use it, I probably should either dump the machine so I can put another one in its place, or turn it into a Linux box. Actually, that might not be a bad idea. |
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just so you know I'm not immune to this sort of thing by 09/30/2012, 10:59am PDT  I should mention by 09/30/2012, 11:00am PDT Re: I should mention by 09/30/2012, 5:29pm PDT |
