04-28-2003, 01:34 PM
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Pontificator
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 1,177
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Monday, Bloody Monday
New laptop last week. Installed Windows 2003 Server, Office XP, VS.NET 2003, SQL Server 2000, SQL Server 2000 SP3, eMbedded Visual Tools, ActiveSync, SQL Server CE. Configured the laptop. Moved all data from old laptop to new laptop. Deleted data from old laptop. Took all week. All week.
Worked all week end. Doing taxes. Writing articles. Monday morning. Crash. Crash. Hard drive could not be found.
Pulse up. Off balance. Called Dell support. Hard drive is broken. Pull out hard drive. Try to knock on hard drive on the side. Dell rep said we should first pray to God of Computers. We did. No luck. Send new hard drive tomorrow. All data lost.
All data lost. All data lost. Tears. All week end. All data lost.
Take out hard drive again. Hit it very hard. Very hard. Frustration. Try again. It came alive. Rescue, rescue, rescue data. All data recovered. Hard drive died again. God of Computers heard our prayers. Still. All week of configuration wasted. Hate that. Recovered data. Love that.
Monday, Bloody Monday.
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04-28-2003, 01:50 PM
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Sage
Join Date: Oct 2006
Posts: 797
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My new laptop comes today, and this doesn't bode well for it 8O
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04-28-2003, 01:59 PM
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Thinker
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 333
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Time to buy a tape drive?
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04-28-2003, 02:05 PM
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Intellectual
Join Date: Mar 2004
Posts: 170
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You so lucky!!! congrats!!!!
:lol:
This is why I keep a usb hard state drive around my laptop all the time. On my desktop, I backup across several HD's and occasionally to cdr, but on a laptop... you never know. One bad drop, one bad spill, one lucky thief, etc etc...
Still, happy you could get your stuff back. Shame on the install, yep, hate then, when you at last have everything working 'perfect'.
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04-28-2003, 02:10 PM
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Pontificator
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 1,177
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Quote:
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Originally Posted by rlobrecht
Time to buy a tape drive?
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Yes. Backups are not a joke.
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04-28-2003, 02:11 PM
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Thinker
Join Date: Feb 2004
Posts: 338
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Andy --
While I can't say I've shared your pain (thank the Computer Gods) I can say that my fear of having that happen has been growing.
My laptop is 2 yrs old this month... and I've got 25GB worth of work on this critter.. and the realization that hardware doesn't last forever scared me into looking for a reasonable backup solution... I found it!!!
I purchased Retrspect 6.0 Pro for Windows... which allows me to back up my laptop over my home network onto my desktop CPU's massive hard drives (and from there I can back up to DVD). I now rest peacefully knowing that I'm covered in the event of a true disaster (Unless, of course, my laptop and desktop both die at the same time... at which time I give up!)
Glad to hear you at least recovered your data.
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04-28-2003, 02:20 PM
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Pupil
Join Date: Oct 2002
Posts: 31
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I had two hard drives die on my Dell laptop at work. Plus the power supply went bad too. All within the first 3 months. Then on my Dell desktop the floppy drive went bad, then the cdrom went bad. Both after a month or so of use. I don't think I'll be buying any Dell's with my own money.
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04-28-2003, 02:31 PM
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Editor Emeritus
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 10,981
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That's Dell. I'm sorry but Dell laptops suck. Every single person I know that is working on a Dell Laptop has had soem sort of serious problem. From motherboards dying, broken left ctrl keys (on 3 different laptops), screens, and hard drives.
My step-brother was going back to school to do his MBA. I recommend against the schools special Dell package, and pointed him to a IBM ThinkPad. That was 2 years ago. He just finished, and called me up to thank me. It turns out that most of the people that got Dell's ended up with problems. His Thinkpad was a workhorse and never let him down. :mrgreen:
Personally, It's IBM and then Compaq when it comes to buying laptops. Desktops, well, ... you can't beat Dell on Desktops.
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04-28-2003, 02:37 PM
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Intellectual
Join Date: Feb 2002
Posts: 200
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I've had only minor problems with Dell notebooks - I've rarely had a hard drive fail (and since they're manufactured by companies that IBM would use for their notebooks as well - such as Hitachi - there's an equal chance that the IBM HD would die). I did receive my notebook with a dead CDRW drive, but that was fixed with a phone call... they shipped out a new CDRW drive (which I received the next day), and I shipped the old one back - with Dell paying the shipping both ways.
That said, I have a 3 year on-site warranty with CompleteCare on my notebook 
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04-28-2003, 02:38 PM
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Ponderer
Join Date: Feb 2002
Posts: 102
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It amazes me that even us very technically savvy folks fail to do backups even when we know how important they are. I am just as guilty as the rest...  ops:
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