Mimi Posted February 11, 2019 Report Posted February 11, 2019 Well it has been a while since I have been on here. I have been busy and my hard drive died. so I have lost a lot of patterns. I am so mad I did make copies of some .. My son usually takes care of my computer. He is out of country for a year so a friend of his came and installed a new hard drive. I am hoping that I can pull somethings off the old hard drive. That is going to have to wait for he will be back in June for mid tour break but I think he is going to be too busy. I I will start to rebuild my collection but I will also make copies of whatever patterns I download. Thanks for all you guys do and have a great day . Mimi bobscroll 1 Quote
bcdennis Posted February 11, 2019 Report Posted February 11, 2019 Sorry to hear about your computer issues. I need to back up all my patterns on my Jump Drive. Mimi 1 Quote
RabidAlien Posted February 11, 2019 Report Posted February 11, 2019 If the drive is capable of powering back up, you should be able to get your patterns back. If it was wiped or physically damaged, its a LOT harder, up to impossible. It all depends on the severity of the damage and how, exactly, it died. External hard drives and/or USB drives are getting pretty darn cheap these days, not to mention Cloud storage (Google Drive, stuff like that), so backups are cheap, easy, and tend to be lifesavers in cases like this. Mimi 1 Quote
jblock9907 Posted February 11, 2019 Report Posted February 11, 2019 I use a Passport for backup. It has 1 terrabite of space. Mimi 1 Quote
WayneMahler Posted February 11, 2019 Report Posted February 11, 2019 Sorry to of your plight. I have 2 external hard drives I back up on. One is a 1 terabyte and the other is a 2 terabyte. I learned the hard way back in the day. Mimi 1 Quote
new2woodwrk Posted February 12, 2019 Report Posted February 12, 2019 Just because your drive dies, doesn't mean you've lost your data. You can remove your hard drive, purchase a small docking device and use the "crashed" hard drive as an extra hard drive - you will recover all your data, just not your windows operating system RabidAlien and Mimi 1 1 Quote
Sycamore67 Posted February 13, 2019 Report Posted February 13, 2019 23 hours ago, new2woodwrk said: Just because your drive dies, doesn't mean you've lost your data. You can remove your hard drive, purchase a small docking device and use the "crashed" hard drive as an extra hard drive - you will recover all your data, just not your windows operating system Not true....if your hard drive actually crashes, you will be unable to access it or the files. If your operating system gets corrupted, you may be able to get your files. BACK UP YOUR DATA....FREQUENTLY......AS HARD DRIVES ONLY LAST SO LONG. Quote
kmmcrafts Posted February 13, 2019 Report Posted February 13, 2019 Yes, Hard drive crashes means a dead hard drive.. I had one that I was using as a external drive and it smoked.. like yeah smoke rolling out of it.. I've been going to buy another rive and take it apart.. take out the hard disc and see if I could retrieve the data.. I have nearly 20,000 patterns on that drive from around 2005 - 2014 ish.. I used to save every pattern I run across on these free sites just to have them.. but I no longer do that much anymore.. but boy was there some nice patterns on that.. I now have another back up hard drive plus I save to flash drive and burn a disc so.. I keep several copies these days.. at least of the important ones.. Quote
Sycamore67 Posted February 13, 2019 Report Posted February 13, 2019 (edited) There are services that can retrieve data from hard drives. It is not cheap but may be worth it. A company called Backblaze issues a report on their hard drive life and is interesting. Hard drives fail at a higher rate early then run well in till at 3-4 years the failure rate goes up. Please know that sooner or later your hard drive will die. Make backups and use rotate what your backup to different drives. This reminds me that I need to back up today. WHEN DID YOU LAST BACKUP YOUR DATA? Edited February 13, 2019 by Sycamore67 Quote
Falcon Posted February 13, 2019 Report Posted February 13, 2019 I have not tried this but I have done similar booting from usb using ubuntu I think it was a long time ago. Worth a look. https://www.easeus.com/data-recovery/access-hard-disk-data-without-os.html Quote
Sycamore67 Posted February 13, 2019 Report Posted February 13, 2019 Just a couple thoughts. How valuable is the data on your hard drive. If it is family pictures or other really valuable files, you might consider paying someone to recover it. Prices seem to be around $199 or more. If you fool with the drive, it may make it more difficult to get files back. If the operating system is bad, then booting from a flash drive may work. If the drive actually crashed then it will not work. A 1 TB external hard drive on Amazon can be bought for $49 and is cheap insurance. Quote
new2woodwrk Posted February 14, 2019 Report Posted February 14, 2019 (edited) 23 hours ago, Sycamore67 said: Not true....if your hard drive actually crashes, you will be unable to access it or the files. If your operating system gets corrupted, you may be able to get your files. BACK UP YOUR DATA....FREQUENTLY......AS HARD DRIVES ONLY LAST SO LONG. Actually, you can even retrieve files from a crashed drive - I've done it many times and have had it done several times to very damaged drives by a company that specializes in data retrieval Most people associate "crash" with a failed operating system or file system, not a real "crash" or dead hard drive. Unless the computer was burned to a crisp or otherwise severely dropped from height, it's most likely just a failed OS which can also be restored as well (as long as a restore point was created) Edited February 14, 2019 by new2woodwrk Quote
wombatie Posted February 14, 2019 Report Posted February 14, 2019 You have just reminded me that I have not done a back up for a while. Sorry for you computer problems. Marg Quote
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