Comments on: Recovering From a Mistaken Reformat

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nike shoes discount — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 12:30:05 +0000

I hadn’t backed up for a week or more – I’d gotten slack and I lost a lot of files and emails.

By: ARABA OYUNLARI

ARABA OYUNLARI — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 21:08:37 +0000

I bought a new external hard drive after that as the previous one had quit and I hadn’t replaced it. I now back up almost religiously every night, manually, so I can be sure it’s done properly and it’s not in some format that needs restoring first – I can work off the hard drive if I need to.

By: Sire

Sire — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 00:19:38 +0000

Makes you wonder if an online backup service is a good idea after all?

By: RennyBA

RennyBA — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 21:03:41 +0000

My deepest sympathy – I would have gone nuts. Glad I can connect to the server at the office and have a backup of my D drive once in a while – will do it again tomorrow.

C drive is for programs and easy to reinstall. I use one day to build up when I get a new computer once very second year. During this 24 hours I’m not easy to live with

By: Sueblimely

Sueblimely — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 16:58:08 +0000

Lesson learned here too – I was too complacent in thinking I had a satisfactory backup solution in place. Now I am going to have backups of various forms and in different places.

By: Sueblimely

Sueblimely — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 16:55:17 +0000

Thanks for the nod on SyncBack – I have just had a look at what it has to offer and I like the look of it – will give it a trial.

By: Sueblimely

Sueblimely — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 16:54:11 +0000

Thanks Bettina, I think I have got most things back. Just a matter of being able to find it all now.

By: Sueblimely

Sueblimely — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 16:53:08 +0000

We should learn to always expect the unexpected

By: Mig

Mig — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 16:43:13 +0000

Don’t worry, Sue, we still remember you.

I had the same problem last December and I learned my lesson. Now I do a complete system backup each week, I print out all important information and even save on CDs critical data.

By: PlanningQueen

PlanningQueen — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 05:47:35 +0000

I can understand how you feel. I learnt a big lesson earlier this year, and that was to back up regularly. I hadn't and when my hard drive died (my laptop was < 1 year old) I lost over 6 months worth of family photos and days of work in spreadsheets and documents. I am doing back ups regularly and manually but using SyncBack free version which I have found easy enough to use.