Re: Maxtor external hard drive no longer recognized by My Computer

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All Things Mopar wrote:
Today Sunny commented courteously on the subject at hand


I have Ghost configured to perform an incremental image
backup of my drive hourly to my file server, which runs
RAID 5. Once a week I backup the file server to tape, and
take the tapes to my cottage.


Hourly? Is this your home or work PC? I have a LAN but hardly a reason or budget for RAID.

I work from home on contract. If my PC goes down, I earn nothing until I resolve the problem. If I loose work I have not yet delivered, I have to do it over to get paid.

My RAID 5 file server was not expensive. It's an older P3 system built into a tower case running used SCSI drives and Linux. I got the SCSI RAID controller free with the drives because it was busted - somebody had dropped it and knocked a few surface mount components off the board. I fixed it, then paid $150 on eBay for an identical controller as a backup - but have not needed it yet.

If my PC fails, I loose no more than an hour's work. If my
house burns down, I loose no more than a week's work.


Then, your server and RAID complex must be elsewhere. Guess my car picture hobby pales in comparison to the importance of your work. <grin>

No, the server is in the basement behind my office. It's just the backup tapes I take offsite.

Recently my XP system bluescreened overnight, then froze on mup.sys when I tried to reboot - this has never happened before, system is usually solid. Rather than try to repair it, I simply restored the 3am backup from the file server (took 20 minutes) and got back to work. No problems since :-)

Sunny
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