There is a third kind of people who have lost all of their data, know all of the risks, but still say "maybe I'll work on that tomorrow".
We're a small but resilient group of people who enjoy living on the edge, and are known to frequently reformat our hard drives on a regular basis "just for funsies".
Some of us are a bit better and rely entirely on cloud services exclusively. We belong to the third kind of people, but generally identify as belonging to the first kind of people.
I once built a new machine 8 or so years after the release of Windows 98. I decided to install it on this new bare metal machine to see how long it would take.
What once took 45+ minutes on Windows ‘98’s recommended hardware took 11 minutes on tech in 2007; semi-impressive. It was also semi-unstable and unpredictable.
I backed up all my data and my backup device failed. FML. Currently it's out for data recovery which they said could cost between $500 - $1600. FML even more.
Wouldn't care except it had all the pictures and videos of my children from birth (2007) to present. I have managed to cobble together from various sources all of it except for 3 years.
I once lost about 3 years of photos because my oldest daughter had filled our computer with all sorts of stuff, mostly her own photos. I deleted what I thought was a duplicate directory where my photos were, in an effort to free up disc space, only to realize that windows showed a directory that gave the appearance of the same thing in two places :) Because I deleted folders, rather than files, I wasn't able to recover any of them.
They would have been recoverable with the right tools I am reasonably sure. I can't remember what I used when I had a HD failure (was on windows back then) but it pulled the entire file tree back out the void. If you make a bootable USB stick with Linux on it you can recover files when your computer won't even boot anymore without removing the hard drive.
I once had a computer crash and hired some "expert" to retrieve my data. He worked for a couple of hours and gave up. I then went online (on another computer, of course) and found a unix program you could boot from, and it allowed me to retrieve most of what I had lost. The "expert" didn't charge me for his time and I let him know about the unix program :)
Linux bootable USB stick is the shit in this regard. You can go in with a nice little GUI desktop and suite of tools and get that shit done in comfort. Linux mint is a good distro. The expert does seem dubious, he should turn up with bootable media.
There are two kinds of people, those who back up their data and those who have never lost all their data.
Not true.
There is a third kind of people who have lost all of their data, know all of the risks, but still say "maybe I'll work on that tomorrow".
We're a small but resilient group of people who enjoy living on the edge, and are known to frequently reformat our hard drives on a regular basis "just for funsies".
Some of us are a bit better and rely entirely on cloud services exclusively. We belong to the third kind of people, but generally identify as belonging to the first kind of people.
Amateur.
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That may just be the only copy of Windows 8.1 ever seen in the wild. Lol.
I once built a new machine 8 or so years after the release of Windows 98. I decided to install it on this new bare metal machine to see how long it would take.
What once took 45+ minutes on Windows ‘98’s recommended hardware took 11 minutes on tech in 2007; semi-impressive. It was also semi-unstable and unpredictable.
This. This is the way.
I backed up all my data and my backup device failed. FML. Currently it's out for data recovery which they said could cost between $500 - $1600. FML even more.
Wouldn't care except it had all the pictures and videos of my children from birth (2007) to present. I have managed to cobble together from various sources all of it except for 3 years.
Backup your backup.
So what happened to the original data?
If you only had the one set of data, it's not a backup, it's your data.
Yeah....!!!
I once lost about 3 years of photos because my oldest daughter had filled our computer with all sorts of stuff, mostly her own photos. I deleted what I thought was a duplicate directory where my photos were, in an effort to free up disc space, only to realize that windows showed a directory that gave the appearance of the same thing in two places :) Because I deleted folders, rather than files, I wasn't able to recover any of them.
They would have been recoverable with the right tools I am reasonably sure. I can't remember what I used when I had a HD failure (was on windows back then) but it pulled the entire file tree back out the void. If you make a bootable USB stick with Linux on it you can recover files when your computer won't even boot anymore without removing the hard drive.
Get my data back ntfs. It's a disk level software recovery that works.
I cut my teeth on Playstation 1. Now I make not two but three backups.
Gran Tourismo !!
I was thinking 80 hours of Final Fantasy but I hated when GT corrupted too.
Lmao. My husband says the same thing.
I once had a computer crash and hired some "expert" to retrieve my data. He worked for a couple of hours and gave up. I then went online (on another computer, of course) and found a unix program you could boot from, and it allowed me to retrieve most of what I had lost. The "expert" didn't charge me for his time and I let him know about the unix program :)
Linux bootable USB stick is the shit in this regard. You can go in with a nice little GUI desktop and suite of tools and get that shit done in comfort. Linux mint is a good distro. The expert does seem dubious, he should turn up with bootable media.