{"id":280,"date":"2006-04-27T13:52:57","date_gmt":"2006-04-27T13:52:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/?p=280"},"modified":"2006-12-31T09:07:56","modified_gmt":"2006-12-31T09:07:56","slug":"your-hdd-is-dying-have-you-backed-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/computers\/your-hdd-is-dying-have-you-backed-up-280","title":{"rendered":"Your HDD is dying - have you backed up?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After all the hassle and wasted time of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/computers\/my-brush-with-rontokbro-virus-278\">viruses on 2 computers<\/a>, I sat down to catch up on a mountain of jobs.<\/p>\n<p>I turned on the computer and \"pphht\" - accompanied by a burning smell. Uh oh - not good.<\/p>\n<p>After some elimination, I realised it was the Maxtor HDD. It was still under waranty so I took it over to see what they could do. He proceeded to swap my dead one for a new one. But I needed all the data off that old drive - so I protested.<\/p>\n<p>He recommended some data recovery places and said I could swap the drive after they had tried to recover the info. The data recovery place got $50 from me to take a look. They spent 4 days trying their best but he contacted me to say the HDD was completely dead and he couldn't recover anything.<\/p>\n<p>Sigh - back to Maxtor for the replacement and I had to start the long process of reinstalling the OS, programs and data. Was I backed up? Yes, but not as well as I would have liked - I'm missing some stuff.<\/p>\n<p>So, backup has gone to the top of my agenda again (it was always up there but had slipped because everything had been running so reliably).<\/p>\n<p>I now have a daily backup of my 2 blogs emailed to me. I have a weekly backup of all files on the PC. And next, I'm going to ghost my hard drive - it is too much hassle setting up from scratch.<\/p>\n<p>Have you backed up lately...?<\/p>\n<p class=\"alt\">See the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/computers\/your-hdd-is-dying-have-you-backed-up-280#comments\" id=\"comms\">1 Comment<\/a> below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After all the hassle and wasted time of viruses on 2 computers, I sat down to catch up on a mountain of jobs. I turned on the computer and \"pphht\" - accompanied by a burning smell. Uh oh - not good. After some elimination, I realised it was the Maxtor HDD. It was still under [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}