Comments on: Hard Drive Crash

By: billy

billy — Mon, 25 Sep 2006 17:57:00 +0000

I have yet to need the propritary CD to rebuild/re-install a machine. It might be different for a tablet machine, but any good manufacturer would include the drivers required for the machine on their website.

Do you run normal XP or some version of tablet OS? Of course, I always installed XP. You probably have the XP CD Key on the sticker on the bottom of your machine. I believe it is legal to borrow a install CD and use your own XP Key to install it.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 24 Sep 2006 00:29:00 +0000

I’ve had the same hard drive crash problem, usually about two years after purchase of a dell. Is it better to buy a new computer every two years or to sink money into the old one?

Paul

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By: WRJ

WRJ — Sat, 23 Sep 2006 15:58:00 +0000

my recommendation would be to check out JungleDisk a front end for Amazons S3 service.

Unison, I use to backup up software and drivers (things I dont have to worry about encrypting). Data Ive generated should atleast have the option of being encrypted. I back it up between my desktop and laptop. With the logic if anything happens while Im not home the laptop is with me.

carbonite, worries me with no scaling as the data volumes increase. Doesnt seem like they have a way to sustain the growth of there service.

gdrive is also a good option but it has to be chunked up in ~2gb blocks with multiple accounts. I dont like having to choose what is important and what isnt. The other bad piece is google can restrict access via gdrive just by changing how login is handled and author of gdrive has to compensate and you have to get the latest version before the data will be available again.

By: Hypersion

Hypersion — Sat, 23 Sep 2006 02:24:00 +0000

I use gdrive to back-up my important files. Not automatic but hey it’s free.

By: Andy

Andy — Fri, 22 Sep 2006 19:20:00 +0000

Nev, this is all you need man…

http://www.carbonite.com/

By: longtermer

longtermer — Fri, 22 Sep 2006 18:05:00 +0000

The best way to back up more frequently is to make it totally automatic and to do it over the network, not with removeable disks.

I use a great, free program for this called Unison, check it out. There are also many others.

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By: wujimon

wujimon — Fri, 22 Sep 2006 12:26:00 +0000

I second the notion for carbonite. I use them in addition to having an external USB drive that backs up data regularly. For info on setting that up, check out Lifehacker: Automatically backup your hard drive

By: personal finance advice

personal finance advice — Fri, 22 Sep 2006 09:11:00 +0000

Losing data always sucks. The monetary cost usually isn’t near as costly as the time wasted in haing to get back up to speed.

By: EP

EP — Fri, 22 Sep 2006 07:54:00 +0000

you should consider carbonite.com, a small and simple download that backs up all new files and changes to old files automatically everytime you log onto the internet. its like real-time hosted backup.