Data Disaster

[TimM]

Fired up my swish new state of the art computer last week to find it wouldn't start - further investigations led to the hard drive being bust after less than three months which meant I've lost all my data accumulated since mid November so iof any enw members have joined since then can you please let me have your e-mail address etc again - thanks.

Fired up the old back up machine to be greeted with a loud bang and study full of smoke !

It was not a good day.

It gets worse as the first machine has to go back to the manufacturers and won't be back for a month - now resorted to a back up lap top so I'm still online but only just !

Then I sealed a FasTForward envelope with £30 of stamps inside and had to feel 300 envelopes trying to find a ridge otherwise some lucky subscriber would have got a nice free gift. Bad Luck Barry Joel as I found them....eventually !

Then my daughter had her mobile phone stolen ....I reckon I've overdone my allotment of disasters so should be OK for the rest of the year !.

[Adrian Clifford]

Poor you !

Leave the F in the garage for a while.

[Dave Kerley]

I would suggest wrapping everything you hold dear in cotton wool!

[alistair]

Do I assume that, like most of us, you hadn't backed up the data?

Been there, done that etc ...... and still don't back up regularly enough!

Good luck with the recovery process

[TimM]

Correct Alistair BUT I had done full backups from my old computer in November so luckliy I havn't lost too much and I still had my photos in media cards so didn't lose them either thankfully ! It'sthe little things like FTF subs forms and new subscribers , a nice flash intro I was working on for the website, Articles I'd been sent since November , the website itself although I can download that - it just all takes time to retireve from various places.This is only the second time I've had a major problem with data loss in many years of computing so i guess I've been fairly lucky