Hard Drive Down and Out.

aviator · 07-08-2019, 11:03 AM

Just crapped out on one of my desktops at the home office, thank God not the one I use all the time. Fairly new machine Dell Inspirion, 8 Gig RAM, 1 Ter HD, Intel I5 MPU. Can't find Windows serial number from it so I had to get a new copy and order a new drive. Same unit still sells for over $600 so spending $140 makes sense. Now I'll have to reinstall everything back up.

Czubek · 07-08-2019, 05:46 PM

I guess you have everything backed up?

Brian

aviator · 07-09-2019, 05:40 AM

not on that one.

I run two backups in different drives. All the contracts, bank records, rent rolls and pictures are in two separate drives, one is a network drive, the other in a separate drive just on my computer.

I have a dental appt. today, so I guess when I get back the parts should be here and I'll get busy.

RTO · 07-13-2019, 05:28 PM

Did you get your drive replaced and system going?

lastlaugh · 08-26-2019, 10:24 PM

If you would like to recover your data from the drive, let me know.

I can help

aviator · 08-27-2019, 07:31 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by lastlaugh

If you would like to recover your data from the drive, let me know.

I can help

Nah, it was my second desktop, not mine, nothing really important there. I tried freezing it but still could not read it. I back mine up and keep important documents in three separate places, a USB hard drive, a network hard drive and a flash drive.

Sanders · 08-27-2019, 10:46 AM

Thanks for the reminder. I had pulled my flash drive I run my backup to and forgot to put it back in to my work computer.

I usually pull it and take it home with me on weekends. If anything bad happens, I'll at least have my computer files...

aviator · 08-27-2019, 11:49 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Sanders

Thanks for the reminder. I had pulled my flash drive I run my backup to and forgot to put it back in to my work computer.

I usually pull it and take it home with me on weekends. If anything bad happens, I'll at least have my computer files...

By law I have to keep all paperwork for like seven years from the date of closing and I'm subject to periodic audits on that respect so I make sure I have plenty of backups, I can even access my network drive from anywhere in the world and pull up a specific contract if I need to, even on my phone. so I keep three copies of everything.

dinkydow · 09-13-2019, 02:15 PM

The world turns on paperwork.

aviator · 09-13-2019, 04:22 PM

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Originally Posted by dinkydow

The world turns on paperwork.

The Feds make you. You have the same problem.

07-08-2019, 11:03 AM	#1
aviator unum de multis Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Bunker's Headquarters. Posts: 52,374	Hard Drive Down and Out. Just crapped out on one of my desktops at the home office, thank God not the one I use all the time. Fairly new machine Dell Inspirion, 8 Gig RAM, 1 Ter HD, Intel I5 MPU. Can't find Windows serial number from it so I had to get a new copy and order a new drive. Same unit still sells for over $600 so spending $140 makes sense. Now I'll have to reinstall everything back up. __________________ "Government is not the solution to our problem, government is the problem." Pesident Ronald Reagan

07-08-2019, 05:46 PM	#2
Czubek slug Join Date: May 2007 Location: Stover, Missouri Posts: 33,622	I guess you have everything backed up? Brian __________________ 3 Here at the Dirty Dozen's Bunker, we have no problems, only solutions.

07-13-2019, 05:28 PM	#4
RTO Moderator Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Flarda Posts: 29,560	Did you get your drive replaced and system going? __________________ 3 Make America Like Florida

08-27-2019, 10:46 AM	#7
Sanders Moderator Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 66,447	Thanks for the reminder. I had pulled my flash drive I run my backup to and forgot to put it back in to my work computer. I usually pull it and take it home with me on weekends. If anything bad happens, I'll at least have my computer files... __________________ "The truly dangerous man dresses inconspicuously and is soft- spoken. He walks away from most confrontations. The only time you learn that the truly dangerous man is mad at you is a split second before you die, for he never fights. He only kills. The truly dangerous man knows that fighting is what children do and killing is what men do." - Charley Reese 1986 3

09-13-2019, 02:15 PM	#9
dinkydow Moderator Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: The Great White North Posts: 96,463	The world turns on paperwork. __________________ Our forefathers would have already been shooting...by now. "Let your plans be dark and as impenetrable as night, and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt." "Violence of action means the unrestricted use of speed,strength, surprise and aggression to achieve total dominance against your enemy...any fighting technique is useless unless you totally commit to violence of action." Burning huts in commy vills worldwide since 1968

07-09-2019, 05:40 AM	#3
aviator unum de multis Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Bunker's Headquarters. Posts: 52,374	not on that one. I run two backups in different drives. All the contracts, bank records, rent rolls and pictures are in two separate drives, one is a network drive, the other in a separate drive just on my computer. I have a dental appt. today, so I guess when I get back the parts should be here and I'll get busy.

08-26-2019, 10:24 PM	#5
lastlaugh Junior Member Join Date: Mar 2019 Location: Northern Mexico (aka Texas) Posts: 28	If you would like to recover your data from the drive, let me know. I can help

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