Success! ...And failure...

[wfbberzerker]

well, after a unsuccessful reformat the other day (errors up the wazoo, numerous bsods, bascially very ugly), i reformatted again today, reinstalled everything, and was very careful, and lo and behold, no errors!


until....

i realized i DIDNT BACK UP MY STUFF.
i lost about 30 cd's of music that i ripped, a folder full of digital camera pics, some important emails, etc. etc.

:|

 

[amdskip]

Formatting all of my systems today and tomorrow. I'm on my server right now which is getting all the important stuff saved to it.

 

[Moonbeam]

I feel for you wf, that bites.

 

[Orsorum]

Hehe, just reformatted and reinstalled everything...plus I just bought a copy of Norton Ghost, this ain't gonna happen again... ;-)

 

[Orsorum]

Originally posted by: Moonbeam
I feel for you wf, that bites.

I think that's the shortest post I've ever seen from you.

 

[Spike]

oh man, I totally know how you feel. I did the same thing last summer when I installed a new hdd. during the process of hooking up the new hdd, I reformated the wrong drive letter thus erasing my entire drive!!! to make it worse, I was installing a new mobo at the time as well and happened to static shock my athlon 1ghz. It was about the worst time in my life... till I won a new AthlonXP 1800+ and mobo, then all was well in the world again (minus the 10+ GB of missing MP3's and pics)

 

[LongCoolMother]

i know how you feel. i lost my entire hmwrk assignment before doing that. it sucks MAJORLY

 

[yakko]

I did that once.

 

[TNTrulez]

Ouch :frown:

 

[Whitecloak]

I did that once.

 

[SHoddyCOmp]

Ive done it multiple times, the most recent time it had all my schoolwork on it.. WOOPS!

 

[Kadarin]

All may not be lost. I understand there's software out there which can recover data after a format, but I don't recall what it was called. Never had to use it, as I keep data and the OS on different drives.

 

[MajesticMoose]

i sort of did that once on purpose. I didn't feel like sorting through and reorganizing all my music, so I just didn't back it up and formatted to start over. I saved all the important stuff. I don't think i would actually lose anything but a couple saved games if that happened right now except maybe a few cd rips

 

[spanky]

ygpm... coming... in .... a sec.... or minute.... (non-subscriber forums )

 

[wfbberzerker]

All may not be lost. I understand there's software out there which can recover data after a format, but I don't recall what it was called. Never had to use it, as I keep data and the OS on different drives.

well, its not a HUGE loss, i just have to spend a few days re-ripping all those cds... which takes extra long because of EAC...
and i think i have backups of the digital pics...

 

[BigFatCow]

thats why i have 2 partitions, 1 for os, games, apps and what not, the other for homework, mp3s, and other stuff...

 

[Paulson]

I got 2 drives, one for my stuff that needs to be saved, and one for my os and backup stuff...

so that way if one or the other does go bad, I aint totally screwed...