I had a little scare with an external hard drive failure yesterday. Check that, it was a big freakin' scare. My LaCie 160GB drive wouldn't power up. Oh crap! I made a call to my buddy Jeff at Gizmo and called the LaCie folks. They both thought it was a power issue. The LaCie guy told me to take out the drive and try it in a different enclosure.
Hey, that worked. I got the most important files off the drive. Then the drive disappeared from my desktop. Oh crap X2! So, I borrowed Data Rescue from another buddy Trent. It took a good part of the day - but I got all of the files off the damaged drive. Cool.
I'm embarrassed to say a good number of these files only existed on that drive. I know, I'm a dumb ass. A small number of these files were important photographs. I'm a double dumb ass. Now every file I have has a redundant back-up, and I have two more external hard drives arriving soon.
The moral of this bad-turned-good-story: don't be a back-up dumb ass.
BTW - have a terrific Arbor Day!
Apr 25, 2008
oh crap!
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Whew! Glad you were able to recover everything. I've been in your shoes before and it's not a fun time that's for sure.
You should go over to Free State and celebrate.
-Bruce
I got queasy just reading your post! I do my best to duplicate all of my drives but ... it doesn't always happen as regularly as it should. I'll take this as a wake-up call, especially since all my externals are LaCie's as well.
Did someone say we were going to Free State?
-M
I didn't make it to Freestate to celebrate. So, I think we should a photodudes beer meet there very soon. Who's in?
- doug
Always in... just say the word.
In.
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