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Subject: [Leica] Strictly OT: System Crash
From: pearceww at rmi.net (Warren Pearce)
Date: Wed, 08 Jun 2011 13:14:11 -0600
References: <8232789413444429B3A0CA11B4A4CCFE@jimnichols>

One painful lesson I learned many years ago is that hard drives 
always fail. Its when, not if.

I do a data backup to at least 2 external drives every week or 2 and 
these drives are not normally plugged into the computer. Its critical 
to have at least 2 backups. I had a failure a long time ago and I 
plugged in my only backup. The failure then destroyed my 
backup!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! So I always have at least 2 backups.

I have 2 partitions on my computer's hard drive. C: has the operating 
system and all the programs. D: has all my data files. That makes 
backing up the data files a lot easier.

The Acronis program will clone your entire hard drive to another hard 
drive that can replace a failed drive and the Windows operating 
system will still boot. I use Acronis every few months to make a 
backup of the entire computer's drive.

WWP





At 12:51 PM 6/8/2011, you wrote:
>Strictly OT, but I have a question.  I was copying some files to a 
>CD this morning, and, while the CD was being finalized, to enable it 
>to be used by others, my Windows XP system crashed.  A DOS screen 
>came up that I have never seen before. I shut down and rebooted, but 
>the HD just kept showing steady activity.  I tried restore points 
>back to a week earlier, but they all failed.  Has anyone encountered 
>anything like this?
>
>After many attempts at restarting, I am finally up and running 
>again.  I have created a new restore point, just in case.
>
>After almost two hours, I am a WRECK!
>
>Jim Nichols
>Tullahoma, TN USA
>
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