Yaoxing 1st Gear March 30, 2008 Share March 30, 2008 Yup.. use it to store all my work since my university days. Also use it to store ISO backups of my CDROMs and DVDROMs in case any of them gets scratched beyond repair. ↡ Advertisement Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guyver 1st Gear March 30, 2008 Author Share March 30, 2008 Wah ... you are SO FREAKING hardcore ..... think all your data must be very important ... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jchuacl Clutched March 30, 2008 Share March 30, 2008 To be honest, if the data is so important, then you'll need to take extra steps for safety precaution. Backups to harddisk media is not reliable as it can be easily destroyed. Removable media such as backup tapes, DVD etc are better choices as backup medium. It's your choice. Also, even if the drive is formated, data still can be recovered as the contents are not zeroed, only the table of directory contents is reconstructed. Wah ... sound tedious leh .... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boyboy 1st Gear March 31, 2008 Share March 31, 2008 May I know where do you connect this device? To your router? Or must be directly to the PC? direct to PC. like thumbdrive or ext hard drive the maxtor onetouch is basically an external hard drive with backup software and a button which, when pressed, causes an automatic backup. i never touch that button.. prefer to do it the hard way Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clemenzo 1st Gear March 31, 2008 Share March 31, 2008 Dear all, Recently, my main harddisk data got corrupted. I didn't have any back up. So lost all the pictures which I took in the past. Just would like find out how do you guys do backup on your data. I am using a synchronising software to backup to my external HDD. I feel that it's easier than to keep having to manually copy / paste files. Actually .... Microsoft Windows has "Briefcase" function .... which is able to do sync-ing ... but to one location only. Oh, didn't know about the briefcase thingy. I am using Syncback currently. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beei 1st Gear March 31, 2008 Share March 31, 2008 My main harddisk got some registry corrupted last week.. Totally cannot log in and system keep restarting on its own.. I switch the master HD to slave and vice versa and install another OS onto the other harddisk.. lucky the data still around.. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guyver 1st Gear March 31, 2008 Author Share March 31, 2008 My main harddisk got some registry corrupted last week.. Totally cannot log in and system keep restarting on its own..I switch the master HD to slave and vice versa and install another OS onto the other harddisk.. lucky the data still around.. Wah!! You very lucky ... for mine ... I got OS on another harddisk .... boot up from there .... but all the data on the other harddisk that got corrupted shows nothing. LL must reformat and reinstall. As for data .... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guyver 1st Gear March 31, 2008 Author Share March 31, 2008 To be honest, if the data is so important, then you'll need to take extra steps for safetyprecaution. Backups to harddisk media is not reliable as it can be easily destroyed. Removable media such as backup tapes, DVD etc are better choices as backup medium. It's your choice. Also, even if the drive is formated, data still can be recovered as the contents are not zeroed, only the table of directory contents is reconstructed. Yah ... I know that liao ... That's why trying to find a good solution here ... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beei 1st Gear March 31, 2008 Share March 31, 2008 That is why must save important on both HD.. in case one gone case.. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tsjade Neutral Newbie March 31, 2008 Share March 31, 2008 command line backup using robocopy. it's free and included in the windows 2003 server resource kit. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jchuacl Clutched March 31, 2008 Share March 31, 2008 Try testdisk (google for it), it might just do the trick. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guyver 1st Gear April 8, 2008 Author Share April 8, 2008 How about Microsoft Backup? Under "All Programs - Accessories - System tools - Backup". Anybody tried this before? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shull Turbocharged April 8, 2008 Share April 8, 2008 (edited) My main harddisk got some registry corrupted last week.. Totally cannot log in and system keep restarting on its own.. I switch the master HD to slave and vice versa and install another OS onto the other harddisk.. lucky the data still around.. bro, FYI, if you're on XP..you can reinstall just the system files without destroying all your other files..incl your settings etc etc.. I just did this on my old P4 PC which kept getting BSOD during startup Edited April 8, 2008 by Shull Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Friendstar Supercharged April 8, 2008 Share April 8, 2008 Bro, My laptop hard disk just crashed today too. Me now in UK, dun have my recovery disk or XP CD with me, and need to submit my report on Monday morning... Really regretted not doing backup too...Now too late, have to re-type everything from memory, and I'm lousy with that. Made worse by the open office writer in the common computer room which I'm not used to... Wanna cry already... Hopefully the PC shops are open on Sundays so that I can try to recover my files.... Just to "shu ku shu ku" abit... all alone in a foreign land..... I'll usually backup my pictures and files in a DVD ROM, also, in a spare external harddisk which is only turned-on for back-up or to get old data. (Both not with me now... ) WAH SCHOLAR SEH!!!! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiger21 Clutched April 8, 2008 Share April 8, 2008 No Scholar lar, Sent over because no one wanna go and I'm not needed.... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xspace 1st Gear April 8, 2008 Share April 8, 2008 You can use Virtual Tape Library.... No la, you should just get a Backup device which helps to back up your data by just pressing one button... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beei 1st Gear April 8, 2008 Share April 8, 2008 cannot.. my recovery disk does not allow me repair the registry.. Either destroy all files or keep restarting my computer.. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guyver 1st Gear April 8, 2008 Author Share April 8, 2008 I don't want those that copies everything kind .... ↡ Advertisement Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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