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Aaagreen
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Posted: 22nd Nov 2009 10:11
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When you've been using a funky new OS for a while (Windows 7 ftw!)

And now that you've settled in, you go to loading up the stuff you've backed up - to find that you've forgotton 1 folder: the folder that was probably the last thing you wanted to leave behind and now it's gone.


Oh well, time to re-start my Torn templates.

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MSon
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Posted: 22nd Nov 2009 11:37
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I've had that happen with my old projects before, now to avoid it I save all my work, music, and anythink else i might want to save straight to SD Cards, (Via SD Drives), only problems i've got loads of SD Cards which arnt lables so i dont know whats on most of them

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Nickydude
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Posted: 22nd Nov 2009 12:58 Edited at: 22nd Nov 2009 12:58
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This is why I have 3 hard drives, with one of them being external.



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Monk
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Posted: 22nd Nov 2009 13:01
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Quote: "This is why I have 3 hard drives, with one of them being external. "


Ditto, and one is used to back up stuff, and nothing else =)

Monk

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Seppuku Arts
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Posted: 22nd Nov 2009 13:34 Edited at: 22nd Nov 2009 13:36
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Multiple back-ups for the win. Even back-ups go wrong once in a while.

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Phaelax
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Posted: 22nd Nov 2009 13:38
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I just finished backing up data from an infected drive yesterday and kept thinking to myself "do i really have everything i need before I hit format?". Drive has been formatted and I think the only things not backed up (as far as I know right now) are my Spore saves and my browser bookmarks only because I couldn't find the chrome/safari favorites folder.


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Venge
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Posted: 22nd Nov 2009 15:23 Edited at: 22nd Nov 2009 15:26
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C:\Users\<Name>\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default

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lazerus
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Posted: 22nd Nov 2009 15:34
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Quote: "C:\Users\<Name>\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default"


That was a kick to the brass pair.


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Phaelax
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Posted: 22nd Nov 2009 16:10
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Correct path for Vista users, not XP, but close enough. Probably the reason I didn't notice they were in that folder is because it doesn't just list all the bookmarks like IE does in a separate folder. It appears google stores all bookmarks in a hierarchal-style file with no extension. Stupid google. Now I gotta find all my favorite pron errr photo sites all over again.


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castek
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Posted: 22nd Nov 2009 16:18
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Quote: "to find that you've forgotton 1 folder"


UGH!i now what u mean! This happens to me when i was installing windows 7, and it just happens to be my documents folder! How stupid I was! Now I lost 60% of all my documents =(

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Aertic
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Posted: 22nd Nov 2009 22:53
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Poor you.

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bond1
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Posted: 23rd Nov 2009 01:25 Edited at: 23rd Nov 2009 01:26
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I do 3 drives as well:

-OS drive
-data drive
-external backup drive

In addition, I use Macrium Reflect free to make images of my main OS drive, stored on the external backup drive. Because inevitably, I will have placed a file on my desktop that I absolutely need. And I can just mount the image as a separate drive to fetch the file - super duper convenient, and has saved my ass countless times.

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Sid Sinister
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Posted: 23rd Nov 2009 07:03
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I couldn't find my World of Goo or Torchlight saves on Vista. So I migrated to Win7 without them

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Phaelax
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Posted: 23rd Nov 2009 07:42
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I guess I'm not the only 3 drive person here. OS drive, data drive, external drive. I'm using a 40gb ide for my system drive and have another identical one which I too will use Reflect to copy the image over to make recoveries easier. I recently replaced my data drive with a new 1TB WD green drive ($80) and added a 1TB NAS(raid 1) to my network.


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Seppuku Arts
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Posted: 23rd Nov 2009 10:30
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My data drive became a second OS drive. But it makes sense after all, I'm sure most of us have learned the hard way how important it is to back-up and even that back-ups aren't always reliable.

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ShaunRW
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Posted: 23rd Nov 2009 12:59
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This has happened to me so many times. Now i just backup everything on the harddrives.


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Darth Vader
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Posted: 23rd Nov 2009 15:33
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I have four hard drives and they are

1TB OS drive also I also use this for my programs, gaming and storing frequently used files.

320GB Drive that I'm going to dual boot an OS that I won't mention

1TB (Yes another one) that's currently being used for backup, but I'm a little worried because it's an internal one...

I also have an external 160GB that I want to use for backups but a friend has it. I'm considering getting another 500GB or 750GB for backups though.

I love adding bits to my computer

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Van B
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Posted: 23rd Nov 2009 16:32
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I have 2 physical drives, one main SATAII, 750gb I think, and a 500gb IDE drive - which is just for media.

I have partitioned drives: OS, Games, Media, Storage and Projects.

But these days everything just goes in my storage drive that isn't for a project - so I might appear to be organised, it's actually just an illusion.


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Jeku
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Posted: 23rd Nov 2009 19:16
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I have just my main hard drive, and a backup 500GB drive.

I also have an account at an offsite backup site that gives me unlimited space, for all my computers, at $8 a month. It automatically detects which files have changed and uploads it to their servers. They also offer unlimited versions of all the files, so I can grab a deleted file from, say, a month ago. If my house gets destroyed by a terrorist at least my data will be safe


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David R
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Posted: 23rd Nov 2009 20:23 Edited at: 23rd Nov 2009 20:25
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This is why I bought a time machine. Wireless backups that restore to an identical state without having to remember anything.

Godsend with a hard drive that recently screwed up too. (And whilst the TCs are known to cook their drives, I decided a) I can replace the drive very easily b) the chance of both the TC failing and the main drive at the same time is extremely small. A risk, but a very small risk, making the TC still a very decent backup solution)

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