Computer crashed!

[mamabear]

It's been just about a wk since I have been able to get on line. My 'puter crashed, & I lost everything! took it to Geek squad, & tho the price wasn't to bad to fix it, it was more than I could afford, so I re-installed xp, & am still trying to get everything back to my liking. On dial-up, it took 22 hours(!!) to re install/ update my security. & that is just one program. I really don't like crashing computers!! But it is sooo good to be back on line. Now I get to see what wonderful treasures y'all found.

 

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[ashleen]

My 'puter crashed, & I lost everything!

I feel your pain
I HATE when that happens
it only happens on the pcs here; not the Macs.
I hear ya about dail up, too !!!!!!!!!! just shoot me with the wait times :P :P

Hang in there

 

[Likely Guy]

I have empathy. I lost over 1000 hours on a 'new' computer (piece o' crap). I still work with an 'ME', Dell Dimension 4100 etc.

Then again I'm a Luddite/Mennonite.

(Did I ever say before, how much I hate technology?) No, probably not.

There you go Mamabear, Solar Energy!

, oops, had to add this one -

P.S.: Ashleen, I loved my Mac. Wished that I still had one!

 

[dasherhunting]

Man I dont miss dial up ...........................

 

[Xraywolf]

I've been through multiple crashes and hard drive failures, finally went out and got a backup drive, I think it was $80 for a 300 gb, will be well worth it when I need it.
Not a question of if, but when.

I have found that the worse thing to lose is pics, they are not replaceable like most anything else is.
Lost passwords & links also suck.

 

[Treasure_Hunter]

Have them add another hard drive then mirror them. If one drive crashes you will still have all your info and be on line.

I run 4 640 gig hard drives set up in 2 mirror settings. All my data and programs are on mirror B, my operating system is on a seperate partition on mirror A and my gaming is on the other side. I can recover from a single hard drive crash and not lose anything, plus I can reload my OS and not lose anything.

 

[Kentucky Kache]

Welcome to the world of computers.

The cheapest back up you can get is a Yahoo email account. Send everything there that you don't want to loose. After a crash is fixed, all you have to do is sign in to the Yahoo email and you have all your files. And It's free.

 

[Treasure_Hunter]

Yahoo is by far the best "freebie" on the internet, I have neen using it for over 10 years.

If you mirror your hard drive, you want lose your programs, pictures or data, and keep on like nothing happen.

 

[Kentucky Kache]

Yahoo is by far the best "freebie" on the internet, I have neen using it for over 10 years.

If you mirror your hard drive, you want lose your programs, pictures or data, and keep on like nothing happen.

No doubt that's the best thing to do. I mention Yahoo as a quick and simple fix that doesn't cost anything. The poor man's way.

 

[Treasure_Hunter]

KK, wasn't correcting you at all, you were 1000% correct in your post.

 

[Kentucky Kache]

KK, wasn't correcting you at all, you were 1000% correct in your post.

A first for me.

 

[mamabear]

Thanx all for your help & input. Yup I lost way to much & was stupid to not have a back up. Will get a back up drive & in the mean time, maybe yahoo. sounds kinda scarey though, it isn't a security risk to have all your info at yahoo? I heard recently there was a problem w/ facebook & yahoo.

 

[Kentucky Kache]

Thanx all for your help & input. Yup I lost way to much & was stupid to not have a back up. Will get a back up drive & in the mean time, maybe yahoo. sounds kinda scarey though, it isn't a security risk to have all your info at yahoo? I heard recently there was a problem w/ facebook & yahoo.

I've never had a problem, but anything is possible.

 

[Treasure_Hunter]

Best way is to get another drive nad mirror them, both drives have the exact samd info on them, if one dies the other is still active with all you data, and you just buy another drive to replace the one that died.

The good, you will never lose anything if a single drive dies. Both run at same time, record the same info on both at same time. Your computer sees it as a single HD.

The bad, 2 500 gig drives mirrored equals 500 gig drive.

I would rather have my data protected then the extra 500 gigs, besides which HD are cheaper now.

 

[Xraywolf]

If all you want to do it back up pics and other sundry items, I would just use a CD/DVD instead of yahoo.
If you want total backup, so you can resintall your OS and programs and all data the way it was before crash, there is no other option than to pony up for a backup drive.

 

[spartacus53]

I got rid of dial up years ago. It was too slow, and too many dings, it was driving me crazy

 

[Ray S ECenFL]

Here is another suggestion. Get a second hard drive, either internal or external. Get am image program such as Ghost or Acronis. Install the program. Once you computer is completely up and running run the image program and create an image of your new hard drive on to your new second hard drive.

In the event of a primary hard drive crash, you can boot off the image disk and reload the image file. Your hard drive will be back to the exact state as it was when you created the image file. Image files can be updated as needed or you can create a new image file every few months as you add programs to your computer.

If your email files reside on your primary hard drive you will lose some of your emails. The ones that did not get saved to the previous image save file. Having an off compute email such as Yahoo or lycos the only way to avoid losing your emails.

Hope that helps.

Ray S

 

[mamabear]

Wow! y'all know your stuff! I think I need to go back to school & learn some 'puter basics. Thanx for everyones help.

 

[Ray S ECenFL]

It is called the school of hard knocks. Some folks call it learning by experience. LOL



Ray S

 

[riverite]

Happened to me a week ago , fortunately i had all my pics on a flash drive and some other stuff, not the best way to go but certainly the cheapest back up . Used system recovery to get XP up and running again,cost nothing, but still a pain getting everthing as i want it