Re: Hard Drive Woes--220GB Worth Of Data Vanished??? Help!!!

lungnut2002@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

> Oh, hey, don't get me wrong--I'm not crying.

It's the same sad song.

> I hold myself to blame. It's just that I currently have 17 hard
> drives (ranging from 160GB to 300GB) and up to this point I
> haven't had the resources to keep 17 duplicate drives. That will
> change. I don't know how I'm going to do it, but I won't be
> going through this again.

Each drive is full and all the data on each drive is critical?

> What I'm looking for more than anything from this newsgroup--one
> that's helped me greatly in the past, going all the way back to
> 1998 when I built my first pc--is how this happened, why chkdsk
> did this, how I can avoid it in the future, and (most
> importantly) tips on recovering the lost data.

Firstly, I don't mean to impede, not at all.

If you have been around so long, how come you didn't go to the
storage group?

I am genuinely curious about why people come to this group asking
about data recovery. My best guess is that they know people here
are techies. I am open to correction from others on the subject.
Is this group somehow supposed to help out data recovery? And I
don't just mean because of the generous nature of folks here.

Once again, I am not really being critical even if it seems that
way, it tickles me. It seems odd that people come here, and at the
same time I find their visits help reinforce the real need for
backup copies of important information.

> It seems what you hope to accomplish is rubbing my nose in the
> fact that I didn't have a backup, and I have no defense. All I
> can say is, you're right, sir.
> Does that make you feel better?

If my hard disk drive fails and I've got a backup partly because
of hearing your story, it will help me feel better.
.

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