Originally posted by: Whitedog
This is where I wish I had raid1 setup
It's even tougher when you can't. Invest in a tape backup or DVD burner
Simply having another HD either in your computer, or on a network computer and running an XCOPY Batch file backup is all you need...
I've a dedicated HD in my Server computer at home that stores important --> critical backup files.. On each of my PC's, I have a Batch file in the startup that does an xcopy to it...
If you program the batch file right, you only copy the files you want to keep, and you only copy files that have changed...
Normally it only takes about 5 seconds to run, so that's not a lot of time added to my startup to insure my files are safe.
You can do the same thing with a disk locally on the same machine.. no need to run raid "just for backup", though it is better to have it on a seperate computer as it's been known for an OS to completely corrupt all data on all hard drives in a PC (it happened to me years ago)
Sorry about your lose.