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anne-girl
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mount: /dev/sda5 is not a valid block device
bits and bytes... a year or two's crap
~/bin
old english essays
occasional attempts to write
a folder of exercises in me trying to learn c++
msn logs
gigs of illegally downloaded music
maybe it's still there, maybe I can get it back
but none of it really matters, in the end
there's nothing I really care about there
was it all a waste of time then?
wonders
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anne-girl
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that came out completely wrong
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u24
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do you know of any *nix file recovery tools?
have you thought about something that directly reads the disk?
I can't really help, i'm definately a windows monkey :-(
I think I'd die if my hdd crashed (I was seriously considering getting a raid setup..)
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neesh
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a blather_coincidence... i'll be doing some 5 hours work to catch up on all the information i lost today in about ten seconds.
cannot believe how idiotic he is half the time
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anne-girl
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wee! I poked at it and it works!
where by poked at i mean poked at connectors a bit and poked at BIOS a bit
i think i need to seriously reconsider the amount of computer, though
and make some backups
i know how ya feel, neesh... had a project due the next day which I had to restart :)
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u24
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for future reference:
http://tinyurl.com/a42re
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u24
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(GNU ddrescue)
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anne-girl
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la dee da
so i've got backups, dated roughly time of last harddrive scare
aaaaaaand it decides to implode again
oh, what joy
same symptoms, but more serious-sounding
yeah.
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060420
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anne-girl
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*looks into ddrescue*
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anne-girl
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uh
ok, i'm an idiot
i did EXACTLY the same to fix it as I did last time (ie poking at connectors a bit), and it works perfectly
duh.
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u24
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i think you should either backup onto dvd or get a raid setup...
glad your heart has started beating again (after I imagine it stopped when the HDD crashed again)
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anne-girl
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*nods* that's definitely my project for today.
RAID strikes me as overkill (and I'm really quite bad with hardware, as evidenced by this whole blather), but I'll be breaking out some blank CD-Rs
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emmi
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i have nightmares about my computer crashing. maybe it means a little too much to me.
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u24
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overkill yes, but it is the ultimate for both data integrity and the sheer geek factor.
downside is expense of buying (in my case) 4 250gb HDD's and also the worry of the raid controller dying.
in the meantime, I'm buying a DVD burner.
and emmi; me too. gigs of music and films, plus 2 years of university work.
it really doesn't want to die...
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060422
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pSyche
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worse than
losing_your_date
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060422
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nom
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losing_your_dna (what i keep seeing
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060423
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emmi
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u24, what's the best/cheapest way to back up my data? (computer-idiot here)
i have a ton of pictures on my computer...it's those that mean the most to me i suppose, plus the uni work, diaries/poetry and other blatherings. and i heard laptops normally last about 4 years... mine is approaching its death fast.
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moi
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I've heard of this happening to people, but my iBook has yet to experience such a phenom...
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u24
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depends how much data you've got; burning to a cd is the cheapest and easiest, but for a lot of data you can end up using a lot of CDs.
Alternatively, DVDs are another (slightly more expensive) way to backup, they can hold more than CDs, but you'll need to buy a DVD burner if you don't have one (of course, you'll need to buy a CD burner in order to back up to CD, if you don't have one).
Or you could buy another hard drive and transfer everything to that, but that will cost you in the region of $80, plus you'll have to fit the drive to your computer.
Ultimately, the best backup option, I think, is to chain several hard drives together so that even if one drive breaks, you've still got your data, but that's pretty complicated setup (and really it only applies if you're paranoid about data loss, or you're a large company).
hope that helps :-)
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p2
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for windows:
norton ghost
currently
free after rebate
at buy.com
for linux:
reo backup (gpl)
http://freshmeat.net/projects/reoback/
or
box backup (bsd)
http://freshmeat.net/projects/boxbackup/
or
ghost for linux (gpl)
http://freshmeat.net/projects/g4l/
there's a ton of stuff out there
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emmi
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thanks a lot u24 and p2. i think i'll go for the cd option for now...i also started filling a gmail account with pictures, which is the cheapest (albeit slowest) option...
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u24
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yeah, I was going to mention online backup, but as you say, tis slow in extremis.
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u24
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marius (my_computers) died a few weeks ago. filesystem corrupt. I swear I've said this already on blather..
Ironically, everything we backed up was fine - it was the other hard drive that died.
Quite a heroic effort on part, I think. Linds' 5000 word project was on drive C. It wouldn't boot into windows. On another partition is Suse Linux, it boots into that fine, but won't read the other partition (says the drive is empty). So I boot from an XP install (the OS is 2k, but my 2k disk isn't bootable). Try to 'recover' the installation. Nothing happens. So I boot from an MS-DOS disk, but then realise that DOS doesn't talk NTFS, so I download the NTFSDOS drivers from sysinternals. Because NTFSDOS is 'more casual' about what it accepts as an NTFS disk, I now have readonly access to the data. Now it's just a case of copying a few key files to another floppy. w00t.
we'll be buying another box over summer, with a 17" TFT. double-w00t.
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BnB
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I insert my pen drive. Then a message. Incompatible format? What? Why? How? Then I notice it.
It's gone...
Two years of college level work, now a smoking, smelly, molten mass weakly clinging to the computer chassis.
Leaving me with a sense of loss...
and a strange story to tell my friends...
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