I am mad and sad…
Saturday, August 31, 2002 by adni18 | Discussion: WinCustomize Talk
I am mad and sad…
I was working last night with a skin and suddenly I heard some noises from my portable computer, then a blue screen and after the disaster!!! My only one hard disk has been ruined without any warning! It was one year old only!
That’s why I am mad!
But, I am very sad about it too, because I have lost for ever, 6GB of my new works, (the disk was 20GB), with 4 new WindowBlinds skins (maybe my best work), 5 new Icon Packages (I have been made them for months now and I was proud about them), more than 40 new finished wallpapers (not to mention other at least 100 that wasn’t ready) and many other important works…
Can you imagine how many hours of work have been wasted? I still can believe it!
If only have a back-up of my works… which I don’t, I wouldn’t care at all about this damned disk!
You may think “why he is writing this thread? “ For one reason only, to remind all of you, my dear community friends, to make a BACK-UP!!! Everybody knows that, but only few make it.
After so many years, that I am playing with the computers, this was my first time, that I lost something that it was important to me and this really hurt me!
So, go on make a back-up, you never know when the disaster strikes!
I was working last night with a skin and suddenly I heard some noises from my portable computer, then a blue screen and after the disaster!!! My only one hard disk has been ruined without any warning! It was one year old only!
That’s why I am mad!
But, I am very sad about it too, because I have lost for ever, 6GB of my new works, (the disk was 20GB), with 4 new WindowBlinds skins (maybe my best work), 5 new Icon Packages (I have been made them for months now and I was proud about them), more than 40 new finished wallpapers (not to mention other at least 100 that wasn’t ready) and many other important works…
Can you imagine how many hours of work have been wasted? I still can believe it!
If only have a back-up of my works… which I don’t, I wouldn’t care at all about this damned disk!
You may think “why he is writing this thread? “ For one reason only, to remind all of you, my dear community friends, to make a BACK-UP!!! Everybody knows that, but only few make it.
After so many years, that I am playing with the computers, this was my first time, that I lost something that it was important to me and this really hurt me!
So, go on make a back-up, you never know when the disaster strikes!
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Reply #22 Sunday, September 1, 2002 8:37 AM
Reply #22 Sunday, September 1, 2002 8:37 AM
Sorry to hear you can not recover much of the drive. It will take many hours to remake everything. And when you are trying to do it all from memory it is very time consuming.
Everyone is suggesting ways to store your data for safe keeping. I have a way that I do it that works for me. Many will laugh at my system, but it works for me. I use old fashioned 3.5" floppies.
Most of my designs are small enough to fit on a standard 3.5" floppy, (if they aren't I use a file splitting program and store them over 2 or 3 floppies). So I have one floppy for each design, whether it is a WB skin, a wallpaper, or whatever. Of course, this creates a large library of disks that requires a lot of space to store them. I have all kinds of space. (I just wish I had all kinds of designs worth storing.
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My thinking is, if the floppy drive stops working then I can just get another, and, if one of the floppies goes bad, well then all I've lost is one design that is stored on it. All my other designs are still safe.
This is just my ultra emergency backup. Every month I still back up the entire contents of my hard drive(including my designs) to my second hard drive and then I make a second backup to a bunch of CD's.
Finally, every six months I back up the entire contents of my drive to a tape drive.
(As you can probably see, I'm a little paranoid. But having had this happen once to me I no longer take any chances.)
Good luck adni. I hope you can recreate many of your lost works. Anything I can do to help, let me know.
Everyone is suggesting ways to store your data for safe keeping. I have a way that I do it that works for me. Many will laugh at my system, but it works for me. I use old fashioned 3.5" floppies.
Most of my designs are small enough to fit on a standard 3.5" floppy, (if they aren't I use a file splitting program and store them over 2 or 3 floppies). So I have one floppy for each design, whether it is a WB skin, a wallpaper, or whatever. Of course, this creates a large library of disks that requires a lot of space to store them. I have all kinds of space. (I just wish I had all kinds of designs worth storing.
).My thinking is, if the floppy drive stops working then I can just get another, and, if one of the floppies goes bad, well then all I've lost is one design that is stored on it. All my other designs are still safe.
This is just my ultra emergency backup. Every month I still back up the entire contents of my hard drive(including my designs) to my second hard drive and then I make a second backup to a bunch of CD's.
Finally, every six months I back up the entire contents of my drive to a tape drive.
(As you can probably see, I'm a little paranoid. But having had this happen once to me I no longer take any chances.)
Good luck adni. I hope you can recreate many of your lost works. Anything I can do to help, let me know.
Delicious
Reply #23 Sunday, September 1, 2002 10:37 AM
Reply #23 Sunday, September 1, 2002 10:37 AM
Bummer!! Always a good idea to back up the backup disk. Not saying I ever had a backup disk loose the data that was filled with info that couldn't be replaced. It is said, "Everything happens for a reason" You still have the skins locked away in your mind.
Carlitus
Reply #24 Sunday, September 1, 2002 11:17 AM
Reply #24 Sunday, September 1, 2002 11:17 AM
I know that periodical back-ups are needed. My hard-Disk (a Quantum 9.5 Gb on a Mac G3 on my work) was crashed on the 3d month after the purchase. Fortunately, i always make one back-up of new files any friday, on Magneto-Opticals (now in CD-r/rw too).
With low prices CDR/RW, there's no reason to make back-ups, specially making designs/skins, that uses lots of MB and lots of work.
With low prices CDR/RW, there's no reason to make back-ups, specially making designs/skins, that uses lots of MB and lots of work.
MarkMcQ
Reply #25 Sunday, September 1, 2002 12:18 PM
Reply #25 Sunday, September 1, 2002 12:18 PM
I once suffered a HD dying on me, which took a lot of new work.
Nowadays I have a 2nd HD installed which I keep all my skins and program install files backed up on, and only use it when I need to acess any of that stuff.
Nowadays I have a 2nd HD installed which I keep all my skins and program install files backed up on, and only use it when I need to acess any of that stuff.
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Reply #21 Sunday, September 1, 2002 7:10 AM