Beware!

littlenige · 14-11-2006, 10:56 AM

Not so much a General Boating thread - more advice!

If any of you haven´t made back up copies of your photo´s / music etc, do it!!

I have lost tons of stuff after a recent electrical storm here. I made what I thought were back up copies of a lot of my stuff - only to discover that they were corrupted somehow. Learn from my loss! I´m gutted........................

Jon Fuller · 14-11-2006, 01:16 PM

Nasty!

years ago, when I first had a CD burner, I bought loads of 100 pack blank CD's from PC world, the cheap ones, un-branded (silver both sides). Backed everything up to them, thinking I was clever.

anyways, a couple of years down the line, can't read a single one!

sad thing is, I was warned by a mate, that the cheap unbranded stuff was suspect, and I should go with summat like verbatim, TDK etc, but I didn't take the advice.

foolish!

only use decent stuff now, and no probs so far.

codprawn · 14-11-2006, 01:27 PM

It is not the disk that are always the problem - often it's the software used. Mate of mine does a lot of commercial video work - he thought he woul;d use all the top kit for quality against my advice. He discovered that is Sony DVD player wouldn't play anything he wanted so he bought a cheapy that does the lot.

He also has a big stock of DVDs he did a few years ago that won't play now. Top brands like TDK etc but no use at all. I don't have any probs with the DVDs I burnt years ago. I use the Tesco own brand and they are great. I have also found that cheap cds will work in all players but a load of Maxells I took to spain with me wouldn't work in the hire car - Tesco ones were fine.

You can tell a lot from the colour of the disc.

MrRob · 14-11-2006, 08:43 PM

Surge protection is what is needed!

Matt · 14-11-2006, 08:58 PM

Works for me!

start "Filesystem Backup" /low xcopy c:\*.* e:\*.* /M /E /Y /K /R /C

Troels L · 15-11-2006, 03:58 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by littlenige
Not so much a General Boating thread - more advice!

If any of you haven´t made back up copies of your photo´s / music etc, do it!!

I have lost tons of stuff after a recent electrical storm here. I made what I thought were back up copies of a lot of my stuff - only to discover that they were corrupted somehow. Learn from my loss! I´m gutted........................

Littlenige there is a way to get your pictures back:
http://www.ibas.com/

They are quite expensive - from 300£ - 1000£ for a full recovery. But if the contents is valuable or precious..

/Troels

codprawn · 15-11-2006, 04:26 PM

My company offers a similar service for quite a bit less - typically £250 to £700 - keep saying we are too cheap!!!

Foolish · 15-11-2006, 06:10 PM

well that means i'm feckin nuts !!

normally under £100....

http://www.computer-repair-center.com

Wild Thing · 15-11-2006, 07:40 PM

two or three hard drives run in a raid array or else get an external hard drive which is as cheap as chips and backup, backup, backup, backup, backup, backup, backup, backup, backup, backup, backup, backup, backup, backup, backup, backup, backup, backup, backup, backup, backup, backup, backup, backup, backup, backup, backup, backup, backup, backup, backup, backup, backup, backup, backup, backup, backup, backup, backup, backup, backup, backup, backup, backup, backup, backup, backup, backup, backup, backup, backup, backup, backup, backup, backup, backup, backup, backup, backup, backup, backup, backup, backup, backup, backup, backup, backup, backup, backup, backup, backup, backup,
and then backup once more just to be sure.

Troels L · 15-11-2006, 07:48 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Foolish
well that means i'm feckin nuts !!

normally under £100....

http://www.computer-repair-center.com

Foolish: If your main occupation is Data recovery, I would suspect you to know about IBAS already.

IBAS does also reconstruct harddrives which is physically damaged. Does Computer repair offer this as well ?

If so - I am willing to send you a couple of hard drives for a quote for data breconstruction

I figured Littleniges hardrive is toast due to the surge.
If it is still working - yes then it could be a lot cheaper..

Kind regards

Troels

Wild Thing · 15-11-2006, 07:48 PM

Seriously reading back on this, I remember having burned backup discs with a named software program, now if I used the backup cd in a different cd rom drive it was corrupt, however if the disc was run in the original drive it was fine. If yo still have the drive available from original burn try it in it and see what gives.

codprawn · 15-11-2006, 09:34 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Foolish
well that means i'm feckin nuts !!

normally under £100....

http://www.computer-repair-center.com

Iowa seems a bit far for most UK people..... unless it's IOW without the A

Rupert Munro · 15-11-2006, 10:34 PM

Foolish, any ideas on this one - my windows hd on my pc packed up last week, re-formatted it and reinstalled windows but to no avail - its nolonger able to be picked up on the xp cd screen where you choose to install windows, i tried installing on my other hd's but one is filled with stuff and is dynamic so do can do on that and it cant see my sata drive (its not in raid)??? The other packed up one is viewable on my other pc though, used same cables on both machines and the ide ports def work on the broken one. Any help would be great. Thanks
Rupert

Foolish · 15-11-2006, 10:56 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Foolish
well that means i'm feckin nuts !!

normally under £100....

http://www.computer-repair-center.com

What an

http://www.computer-repair-CENTRE.com

Originally posted by Rupert Munro
and it cant see my sata drive

I assume you are installing third party drivers (F6 at install start) for the sata controller which will need to be on floppy ?

Originally posted by Rupert Munro
its no longer able to be picked up on the xp cd screen where you choose to install windows

IDE or SATA ? .. Can you see it in the bios ?

Matt · 15-11-2006, 11:18 PM

And I Foolishly thought you were just going up in the world.

Rupert Munro · 16-11-2006, 09:42 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Foolish
:
its no longer able to be picked up on the xp cd screen where you choose to install windows

IDE or SATA ? .. Can you see it in the bios ?

I thinkthe sata might be dodgy drivers as its not the original floppy disk. The other 'dead' driveis an ide cant be seen in the bios for the broken pc but shows up on the other one, wher i dont want/need to use it.

Thanks