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07-08-2019, 11:03 AM | #1 |
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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.
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07-08-2019, 05:46 PM | #2 |
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I guess you have everything backed up?
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07-09-2019, 05:40 AM | #3 |
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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. |
07-13-2019, 05:28 PM | #4 |
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Did you get your drive replaced and system going?
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08-26-2019, 10:24 PM | #5 |
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If you would like to recover your data from the drive, let me know.
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08-27-2019, 07:31 AM | #6 |
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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.
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08-27-2019, 10:46 AM | #7 |
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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...
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08-27-2019, 11:49 AM | #8 |
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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.
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09-13-2019, 02:15 PM | #9 |
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The world turns on paperwork.
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09-13-2019, 04:22 PM | #10 |
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