Re: Please help - system restore lost all my wedding pictures

From: Jim Carlock (anonymous_at_127.0.0.1)
Date: 04/10/04 

Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2004 01:15:16 -0400

Sarah,

I think a second hard drive is an excellent option. But that means
you'll need to do the back up on a regular basis, meaning that you
only use the second hard drive to backup the information, and
you do file copying operations on a regular basis.

There might be a way to mirror the hard drive, but that won't
prevent dumb problems. It'll prevent common hard drive failure
problems, but dumb problems are dumb problems, and happen
because of the irrational complexity of XP. ;-) I consider myself
an expert with computer systems, and I will be the first to tell
you that Microsoft created a real big problem operating system
with XP. I've watched the newsgroups and there are at least 800
problems reported with XP every day of the week. It is by far
the most problematic operating system I have ever seen from
Microsoft, aside from possibly the original version of Windows
95.

Alot of my frustration stems from ignorance, but that ignorance
is created by Microsoft themselves, and they seem to like
changing the way things work with the operating system.

Aside from being grumpy about XP and feeling betrayed by
Microsoft, I still use it as the main software for testing software
out on. If the software runs reliably on XP... and on Windows
95 (first version), it'll run reliably on all operating systems. LOL

I hope.

I ran into a problem with XP a couple of years ago where I lost
everything on the hard drive, and I learned to never mess with
changing from a roaming profile to local profile. NEVER do that,
it is just plain the stupidest Beverly Hillbilly thing I've ever seen.
Might as well go back to washing clothes in a bucket.

Anyways, an extra hard drive will be good. Whatever you want
to save, like pictures and such, just set up a structured folder
organization scheme, and store them on the main hard drive and
copy the folders over to the other hard drive every so often,
maybe like once a week.

I typically set up a folder system that is based on dates for pictures.

Folders at the root level will be named Pics.

Then folders inside Pics will be named 2004, 2003, 2002, etc.
Then folders inside those folders will be named accordingly. I like
the numbers of the months, 01, 02, 03, ... 12. That way I know
when the pictures were taken and I'll set up a readme.txt file if
needed that describes what's in the folders (if that's necessary,
which it isn't for pictures, but it is for other types of things, like
downloaded programs).

Hope that helps. :-) Good to hear that you recovered your files.
That is great!

Wow, that TedPad text editor is really nice. I'm very impressed.
Her text was reformatted with it. If I find the link it is useful for
converting case from upper to lower to Sentence style, to Title
style. It is wonderful for commiting word wrap at a certain point
as well.

http://jsimlo.sk/notepad/ 

-- 
Jim Carlock
http://www.microcosmotalk.com/
Post replies to the newsgroup.
"Sarah" wrote:
To all of those who helped me: THANK YOU!
> Guess what?! I was able to recover all my
> files!! I used a software  program  that i
> purchased over the internet that i believe is
> from a  german  company....It cost me only 40
> bucks!  I will repost again  with the name,
> dont have the name with me now...I was about to
> send  my hard drive to  drive savers and they
> wanted between 500 to 2700 to  retrieve my
> data....I  was also going to take my hard drive
> to a  local company and they wanted a  minimum
> of $500.  So for anyone out  there, who runs
> into the same  problem...Dont worry...It can be
>  solved! I did it!!!!  And not for a  skyhigh
> price...For forty  bucks!!  Again thanks to all
> of those who  replied, all of those who  tried
> to make me feel better, and i guess thank  you
> for all of those  who rubbed salt into my
> wounds because you taught me  how "not" to  act
> towards someone who is going through a
> mini-crisis! :)  now, one  last question, any
> thoughts on the best way to back things
> up..Should i buy a separate hard drive just to
> store data in...My  fear is  that when i back
> things up on cd, the cd will go bad, and  what
> about zip  drives?  Im sorry....Im not too
> computer savy as you  can obviously tell by
> the experience i went through...But trust me,
> i will be backing up every  day. :)

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