Ian
Well-known member
Hi folks, finally made the trip over this way, glad I did. Love the look of the place and yes, Mambo is one heck of a site builder, I love using it.
In the other place I was talking with a few of you about my 80 G Hard drive failure and I got loads of suggestions about fixing the drive and also about starting to do backups.
Big surprise the other day.
I took my drives into the workplace where I volunteer in their IT section, I am building their web site for them
[ http://www.alrm.org.au ].
Anyway, I hooked my drives up to a spare machine and my 'dead' dive showed up on the BIOS. Now, to say I was shocked just doesn't cover it!
After a loooong time Windows finally finished scanning the drive and booted up. Almost all of my stuff was still there. At least all the Family tree, the finances and my web site work was untouched. I lost some of of my clip-art files but that is small potatoes compared to what I had thought I had lost.
I have ripped off quite a bit off the files from the drive and my friend burned 2 DVD's worth for me. Unfortunately neither of our DVD ROM's can read them
My son also fiddled with the speed of the bus on my machine and now I can read the drive at home, though I only connect it if there is something I specifically want.
I have looked at what I can do to make regular backups but the Windows 2000 Backup program wont talk to a CD, it only looks for a tape drive. Maybe there is something else out there that i could be using that will let me do incremental burns to CD's?
Thanks to everybody for their information and support. It wasn't a good time for me and I am very grateful that I have had a reprieve from what seemed to be a total loss.
Cheers,
Ian
In the other place I was talking with a few of you about my 80 G Hard drive failure and I got loads of suggestions about fixing the drive and also about starting to do backups.
Big surprise the other day.
I took my drives into the workplace where I volunteer in their IT section, I am building their web site for them
[ http://www.alrm.org.au ].
Anyway, I hooked my drives up to a spare machine and my 'dead' dive showed up on the BIOS. Now, to say I was shocked just doesn't cover it!
After a loooong time Windows finally finished scanning the drive and booted up. Almost all of my stuff was still there. At least all the Family tree, the finances and my web site work was untouched. I lost some of of my clip-art files but that is small potatoes compared to what I had thought I had lost.
I have ripped off quite a bit off the files from the drive and my friend burned 2 DVD's worth for me. Unfortunately neither of our DVD ROM's can read them
My son also fiddled with the speed of the bus on my machine and now I can read the drive at home, though I only connect it if there is something I specifically want.
I have looked at what I can do to make regular backups but the Windows 2000 Backup program wont talk to a CD, it only looks for a tape drive. Maybe there is something else out there that i could be using that will let me do incremental burns to CD's?
Thanks to everybody for their information and support. It wasn't a good time for me and I am very grateful that I have had a reprieve from what seemed to be a total loss.
Cheers,
Ian