Dead Desktop

I replaced the drives after the last failure.
And it's died again :cryin:
So the machine is going to the dump.
It's not even good for parts. :eek:

So I've lost my main editing machine and the Lightroom database.
Only the C: drive is gone, so that's a lesson not to let Lightroom put its data on the C: drive !

I'll probably have photos of a computer being axed for the 24 hours :mad2:

Oh sorry John, the D: drive was used for photos.
Work was on the C: drive in "My Documents" which is now "error enumerating folder structure"

OUCH. Sorry to hear of your disaster Paul. With digital images now, it's so critical to have backups and redundancy. I'm thinking toasted IDE or SATA controller/ fried mobo on your PC. Also, hard drive failures are not uncommon these days. I remember when drives were immortal compared to the high speed, high capacity drives of recent years. Looking back on my experience, I'd say 3 out of 5 drives have failed me for the last 6 years. That's why I run 4 drives in my pc, plus one external drive, and backups to cd/dvd media for the last 6 years now. I've upgraded my drive capacities at least 3 times that I can remember during that time, and at least half the drives I've replaced failed shortly after I gave them away to friends and staff, so now I make it a policy to warn any recipients of my old drives to have a good backup protocol. It cost one of my partners $1400 to retrieve data from one of my old drives that I gave to him, and my treatment coordinator suffered the same mishap a year after I built her a computer from my spare parts and old harddrives.

I run 6 external IDE drives on USB for archive.
Two internal SATA drives, one for O/S and one for data.
I replaced the 200G with 300G last time it failed (overheating) and fitted extra fans.
I have one of the old 200G that works, which I cause as a temporary system drive to boot the old system.
I have a USB widget that will take a bare IDE, ATA or SATA drive (2.5" laptop or 3.5" desktop) and make the bare drie work with anything - PC or MAC.

So I can put the good 300G D: drive into the new machine and run the trashed C: drive on the USB: to try to recover data ...

Sometimess a little geekiness is useful.

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Originally Posted by SmartWombat

... I'll probably have photos of a computer being axed for the 24 hours ...

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Reminds me of a cartoon I saw once: A monitor on the desk with a keyboard smashed through the screen, and a disgruntled user walking away. The caption read something like, "Joe disproves the old adage that you cannot harm a computer with a keyboard input."

Wow. I thought I was the ultimate archive neurotic. There's always someone higher up :-)
Glad to hear that your data is safe.

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Originally Posted by SmartWombat

I run 6 external IDE drives on USB for archive.
Two internal SATA drives, one for O/S and one for data.
I replaced the 200G with 300G last time it failed (overheating) and fitted extra fans.
I have one of the old 200G that works, which I cause as a temporary system drive to boot the old system.
I have a USB widget that will take a bare IDE, ATA or SATA drive (2.5" laptop or 3.5" desktop) and make the bare drie work with anything - PC or MAC.

So I can put the good 300G D: drive into the new machine and run the trashed C: drive on the USB: to try to recover data ...

Sometimess a little geekiness is useful.

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Heh, no doubt. I'm running five drives of dubious reliability now - one dies, boot it from another. I sure hope they stop making crap soon!

Lessons for Windows users:
1) Never, ever, store your images on the windows system drive.
2) If you can't put a second drive in the case, buy an external drive.
3) BACKUP the system drive.

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Originally Posted by Lionheart

Wow. I thought I was the ultimate archive neurotic. There's always someone higher up :-)

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It comes in many kinds ...
Backup level 1: XS Drive II 80GB in my pocket, just press the COPY button to read a CF or SD card
Backup level 2: copy of XS Drive II onto my laptop HD - up to 40GB
Backup level 3: burn all .CR2 files to DVD each night
Backup level 4: copy all .CR2 files to desktop machine drive D: 300GB
Backup level 5: copy all files from Desktop D: to external USB HD
Backup level 5a: copy files to my wife's D: drive across the LAN because she never uses it.
to come:
Backup level 6: copy all external USB drives to 3TB NAS (Raid 5, 2TB usable)

Note that backup level 2 is temporary because the XS Drive II is bigger than the laptop drive (oops).
From my visit to PMA, the XS Drive II is going to be replaced with a Hyperdrive SPACE.
Also note backup level 5a only continues until I get caught.

Backup level 7 may be to use Lightroom managed files on the D: drive.

When I was learning about office 365 admin tasks, I noticed that they are talking about the importance of doing backups of your data regularly. I hope that the data on your laptop is safe and can be restored in the future.

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