godale03
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Well... guys, I have learned a hard lesson this past weekend. I am actually quite embarassed considering I do this for a living.
My wife asked me to rebuild our PC this past weekend. It has been acting up a bit and it has been a while since it's last rebuild. I told her sure I would, but I would like her to sit down and backup everything she wanted backed up, because I have no idea what she has on that thing.
Well after she backed everything up to our external HD I sat down to get started. My first mistake was picking a time to do this while I was also responsible for watching my baby girl. My wife left to run some errands and the baby was asleep so I figured it was a good time. Well I started rushing through the processes.... Loading the XP CD and then deleting the patitions and so on. Well like an idiot I did not unplug the external HD so that Windows did not pick it up as a valid partition. Well rushing through everything so that I could get the formatting started before the baby woke up, I deleted the partition on the first drive listed.... the 80GB external HD. Almost immediately afterward my brain says to me.... hey, Dumbass!! Your primary drive is 150GB... not 80GB! My stomach jumped into my throat, and I immediately turned ghost white. I just deleted the back up! 6 years of my stepsons life... gone. 10 years of my wifes pictures, gone. All of our financial info, accounts, balances, reciepts, purchases, investment accounts that were part of the money backups... Gone! Password spreadsheet with all of our different passwords for email accounts, insurance accounts... and so on... Gone!!! All Gone!!
I thought my wife was going to kill me! I felt like crap to say the least. When my wife asked my how sure I was.... and I told her 100% she was not real happy. Well I downloaded a copy of Recover my Files and it is still running, 12 hours later, and it is only 50% done searching. It has found something like 20,000 some files and counting. I just hope it pulls the photos off ok. It is a pretty good piece of software so I am hopefull. If this does not work... I am sending it to the West Coast and I will have to pay anywhere from $350 to $1500 to have a proffesional recover my data.
Lesson learned! In the 12 plus years I have been doing this, I have never had data loss due to my neglagence... of course the first time it happened it had to happen to me! LOL
Tom
My wife asked me to rebuild our PC this past weekend. It has been acting up a bit and it has been a while since it's last rebuild. I told her sure I would, but I would like her to sit down and backup everything she wanted backed up, because I have no idea what she has on that thing.
Well after she backed everything up to our external HD I sat down to get started. My first mistake was picking a time to do this while I was also responsible for watching my baby girl. My wife left to run some errands and the baby was asleep so I figured it was a good time. Well I started rushing through the processes.... Loading the XP CD and then deleting the patitions and so on. Well like an idiot I did not unplug the external HD so that Windows did not pick it up as a valid partition. Well rushing through everything so that I could get the formatting started before the baby woke up, I deleted the partition on the first drive listed.... the 80GB external HD. Almost immediately afterward my brain says to me.... hey, Dumbass!! Your primary drive is 150GB... not 80GB! My stomach jumped into my throat, and I immediately turned ghost white. I just deleted the back up! 6 years of my stepsons life... gone. 10 years of my wifes pictures, gone. All of our financial info, accounts, balances, reciepts, purchases, investment accounts that were part of the money backups... Gone! Password spreadsheet with all of our different passwords for email accounts, insurance accounts... and so on... Gone!!! All Gone!!
I thought my wife was going to kill me! I felt like crap to say the least. When my wife asked my how sure I was.... and I told her 100% she was not real happy. Well I downloaded a copy of Recover my Files and it is still running, 12 hours later, and it is only 50% done searching. It has found something like 20,000 some files and counting. I just hope it pulls the photos off ok. It is a pretty good piece of software so I am hopefull. If this does not work... I am sending it to the West Coast and I will have to pay anywhere from $350 to $1500 to have a proffesional recover my data.
Lesson learned! In the 12 plus years I have been doing this, I have never had data loss due to my neglagence... of course the first time it happened it had to happen to me! LOL
Tom