I preach backups all day everyday for over 10 years. Set it and forget it I always say…
But don’t forget about it altogether. My HP touch smart pc crapped out on me and it was holding 100gb or so of my precious moments. Pictures, videos etc… Not to mention all my tv for the week. Oh no.
It would not boot! I kept getting a blinking cursor. No windows…
I took it apart and put it back together. Reseating everything and disconnecting all peripheries
It still wouldn’t boot. I was horribly afraid I lost so many memories. I checked my windows home server. Shit! It was powered off. I spun it up and I was about a year off.
I was getting closer but I was still off. I booted the touch smart to HP recovery. I then choose windows startup recovery. It found and fixed my startup information on the partition. I booted!
I was back. The very next thing I did was run a full onsite and then a off site backup! More on that to follow.
We would love to hear about your no backup or bad backup horror stories… Always a plus if it ends well but its not mandatory!
Hi, well we back up regularly because of the horror stories we hear from friends and family. My daughter has a Mac and it crashed and burned and she lost all her pictures from a recent trip to Europe. Had to buy a new laptop! I also have a friend who lost pretty much everything because of similar problems – no backup. So we back up to an external hard drive.
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I have long searched for a solution for backups, I did not want was to have to do it manually, or connect and disconnect drives because I’m too lazy xD. until I found Backblaze. is a payment solution, but allows you “forgetting” of having to backup and lets you get everything secure cloud, sorry for my english