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It Started With a Hard Drive Failure, and Went Downhill from There

Posted By Tony On 15th March 2007 @ 14:52 In News | Comments Disabled

News from the NestOne of the inevitabilities of life is that your [1] hard drive may eventually die. Yesterday evening, one of mine passed, quietly, and among friends.

Fortunately, I have backups and a couple of other computers to use. Unfortunately, I have to set them up to do all the stuff I do, while I wait for the new hard drive to get here.

So for the next few days, I’ll be pulling together backups, recovered files (thanks to the [2] Ultimate Boot CD and a [3] Knoppix live CD), and installing applications.

Just another reminder [4] how important backups are. Things could have been much worse.


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[1] hard drive may eventually die: http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070225-8917.html
[2] Ultimate Boot CD: http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/
[3] Knoppix live CD: http://lifehacker.com/software/disk-recovery/geek-to-live--rescue-files-with-a-b
oot-cd-192982.php

[4] how important backups are: http://taobackup.com/index.html

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