So I'm here still at work trying to get some stuff done because our big computer with all the important stuff on it for the current jobs we are doing decided to go and crash and get bad sectors on its hard drive.
I'm getting to try and copy everything off inbetween crashes and freezes so I can transfer the program and files needed onto another computer to finish the jobs we need done. Only about 150 Gigs worth of information I need to trade around for everything to work properly...
Uh, screw that.
Load up Acronis or Norton Ghost from a flash drive, mirror that old hard drive over to a new hard drive.
Last thing you need on a failing hard disk is an OS shredding what's left.
....you definitely don't want anything running on a drive that is getting bad sectors.
Take it from a guy who still has the first file he's ever saved on a computer and has lived through 2 hard drive failures.
I don't really have a choice right now. Have to keep trying to pull data to the network...
Yes it really sucks.
You guys had all your important stuff on an unbacked up computer....dear lord, thats like asking it to crash. I swear thats how computers work in the work place, the second you let your guard down they decide to quit.
Only one specific program is loaded on the machine. Everything else is on our server which is backed up. This computer has a software package that makes really huge files. We have everything running on this particular computer to speed up the file making process versus saving on the network. Its also our newest computer in the whole place. Some stuff is backed up but not everything.
makes me think I should get a backup drive for my desktop o.O
I'm telling ya Sen. All you need is an extra hard drive, and a floppy disk.
Shut the thing down, put the floppy disk with Norton Ghost in, copy the old HDD to a new HDD (without bad sectors), bam, problem solved.
You have to re-register things like anti-virus' because they use low level device signatures to identify their hard drive... but whatever, reinstall.
Keeping the OS running while backing up a dying drive is probably the worst thing you can do besides running a defrag.
Took out the drive and got an enclosure for it. Cheap than getting 500 GB drive. Thank God Best Buy is open till 9:00pm. Zipping through copying to parts I need...