Do you know about your hard drive?

PreciousDove

PreciousDove

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Recently in another post I have mentioned that a computer store had ruined my laptop.
They was supposed to transfer my hard drive data from a desktop to the laptop.
My desktop was partitioned. And I wonder now why they wiped the partition out


Doesn't it figure I see this article now.:rolleyes:
I hope this helps others so you don't have what happened to me to you.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/tech...pc=U531&cvid=d78bbcff879a436aa365a13abde689f0
 

Yes, I pretty much know about my hard drives. I keep everything on an external hard drive so if anything happens to my computer I still have it. I don't think I would let someone else work on it though. I like to do it myself. Sorry you had that happen to you.
 
I keep my records on an external, portable hard drive. Once a week I back it up to the hard drive on my desktop computer and to another external hard drive. Double redundancy.
 

With personal computer data if important, don't trust unknown servicers to do what individuals should learn to periodically do themselves. This is not like 2 plus decades ago when backing up data took more technical skills with back up magnetic tape programs. Today anyone can plug in a single tiny USB stick memory and back up large amounts of data that will satisfy everyone except those storing numerous video files. There is limited reason to back up a whole computer including operating system and application files. Otherwise one just needs to know where one's personal files are, a simple matter.
 
In addition to the very occasional USB stick, we use external hard drives, which have become pretty cheap nowadays. My latest is a four terrabyte external hard drive. I do full backups once a month (full because I have a program that just takes care of it without me futzing around).

Only rarely have I needed something from a backup — but did recently, and was mighty glad to have it. Actually, what I needed was from a number of years ago, so I just retrieved it from an earlier external hard drive. Yay.
 
horseless carriage said:
Me too, sometimes, when we go to Scotland it takes me all night to drive there. That is one hard drive, let me tell you.
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Very good, a "harddrive" all the way to Scotland. Here is someone, finally, with a sense of humour in a world that is almost without humour.
 

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