Bugger!
The windows system hard drive on ye olde Win2K Athlon 700 machine has just died horribly. Although the Beast is computer number 1, I wanted to keep it shielded from the evils of the internet at least until Windows XP SP2 was finally released. To this end the Athlon was still my primary machine for the web and e-mail. I will have lost a couple of weeks of e-mail which is annoying but not disastrous. All my data is stored on another hard drive within the Athlon so I should be able to pull it and access the gigabytes of information I have stored.
This is my first hard drive failure in 15 years of computer ownership and I suppose that makes me lucky. If we get the business up and running I will have to seriously look at our IT disaster recovery procedure. Thinking about it I know where I can get my hands on a 40/80Gb DLT... hmmm. They'd never miss it, uses a SCSI interface so more cash outlay would be required.
Makes me wonder though. How much data do I have stored and what would I do if it was all to be lost? *shudder* what a horrible thought.
posted by Ricky Dee at
9:09 PM
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Update:
I've managed to get Win2K repaired on the Athlon and reinstall Norton Ghost. I was then able to pull a ghost image I created back in April of a clean install of Win2K with all the then latest MS updates, key applications and all hardware installed correctly. I then pulled my e-mail archive (.pst) files, last updated 27 June, over into outlook.
I won't rely on the hard disk though as it will need replaced but the time and effort I put in on a clean install and ghost image has paid off handsomely. Must remember to backup my e-mails more reguarly though.
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Ricky Dee, at 14 July 2004 21:29
Well, well. As I suspected the hard disk has corrupted Windows again and can't boot. Extremely pissed off now.
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Ricky Dee, at 15 July 2004 08:04
Another Update:
My general office machine is still down but I've ordered a cheap 80Gb Seagate replacement. I'll partition it as a 20Gb system drive C: for the OS and apps and still have another 50Gb+ for extra storage.
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Ricky Dee, at 17 July 2004 10:50
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