Hard Drive Failure
I was at a tournament when all of a sudden, I got the spinning wheel. I tried to force quit, but the whole computer seemed to be frozen. When I restarted the computer, it failed to recognize my hard drive as a mountable drive.
My last backup was the last day before I left for San Francisco, so a couple weeks of lost data isn’t as bad as it could have been. I’ve found backups of the pictures and videos I took while in San Francisco, so it seems like I haven’t lost any irreplaceable data. I guess I’ll just have to deal with my workflow being disrupted until I get a new hard drive.
I have three things to be thankful for. First, I’m going to get a larger capacity hard drive to replace the old one. Also, I’m glad I use Time Machine. Most of all, I’m glad this didn’t happen to me in San Francisco.
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Try http://www.crashplan.com/ ; there are several other solutions similar to it but that is the one I personally use. Restoring from Time Machine, then applying changes from CrashPlan will make sure you will suffer no more than 15 minutes’ worth of lost material, if at all…
Edwin Tan on January 27, 2008 at 3:09 pm
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