Well that was nice…
by admin on Feb.11, 2010, under Uncategorized
I get home after working a full day and driving over 150 miles and find that the home computer has been bust since a certain someone turned it off before it had shut down properly. So within seconds of me arriving at home I’m prexsented with the following.
1. Fix the computer
2. Make sure all the important documents are restored
3. Make sure office, all the solitaire games, google architect?, all bookmarks and everything else work fine.
O….K…. Not happening, the main hard drive is screwed. Looks like some nasty physical contact has occurred.EDven booting to live linux and attempting a format results inmany errors. That disk is goosed. Luckily, I have a 160G disk lying around (plus the 1 Terrabyte data disk in the computer), so after lots of very low level messing around with teh screwed disk I have everythging I need to start again.
Windows 7 here we come. It installs in about 30minutes and is up and working on the internet in 10 more. WOW! It’s great. So fast and easy and quick and clear. Love it!
Still sorting things out but it’s on here and working very well now.
February 11th, 2010 on 12:08 pm
May I suggest you have something that clones the startup drive on a schedule to a bootable backup on an external drive (which you disconnect and hide)
I had major drive death mid dec, I’ve now got:
Internal Drive
Drobo Back Up Robot (as Data/Time machine backup)
Bootable clone of internal drive 1
Bootable clone of internal drive 2
Backup of super important stuff
I have it so when I connect a drive the computer sees it and automatically updates the clones.
the computer death cost me 78hours and £2k and a massive headache.
I know you’re clever, and don’t need this much safety, but a clone would be ace for when “someone” mutilates the system
February 11th, 2010 on 12:13 pm
*really* important stuff to me is my photos and my documents and they do get backed up to seperate drives on a regular basis. The rest of the stuff is just annoyance. Anyway, I think you’re right. Windows 7 does come with some fairly nifty backup software so I’ll give it a try.
February 11th, 2010 on 4:19 pm
I’m more worried about lost time then the actual base software, it just takes ages to install everything and put it back how it should be.