A clean hard drive is the best place to start

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Except if everything you had on your drive for the last 4 months was on it before you cleaned it and no backup!!!!
Frig me with a band of monkeys!!!

I found one of the wires in the wiring harness going to the ide drive loose and realized it was a culprit causing me to have to reboot about 4 times when I`d turn the machine on, until the connection made up from temp expansion.
I went right past the "Caution dont sharpen mower blades while is engine running" sign and jiggled it. Somehow it trashed the boot sector and rendered the drive un-usable. Ill leave out all the intense drama that followed while time stood still.

Now I feel like a horny virgin that has never beaten off! I was spitting up blood for a bit after I realized that every scratch track, song, idea, was gone forever, no setups, no configs, no nothing.
Suddenly it dawned on me that since coming to the HomeRecShop I have become invincable, a veritable genius, a digital powerhouse, 'know what I mean Vern?", there is no holding me back now, back your vehicles away from the track ladies and gentlemen, I am a piece of work to be reckoned with.
I don`t need all that old garbage, I can write new and better pieces without referring to that old crap. I can download new libraries of soundfonts, dxi synths and patches, there`s better drum clips out there too. I am borned again!!!

I like to think that rather than just plain old "boned again!".




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monty said:
Always have 2 hard drives.
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me too, but procrastination as to doing backups, is an excellent educator. I didnt even have the 2nd drive powered up.

It`s really not that bigga deal. I just lost a few things that I would rather have not parted with, but actually I`ll be back to where I was and better, in a couple a days. Had I not spent as much time here reading post after post for the last 4 to 5 months, I would really be lost with the recording software , plug-ins and add-ins though.
 
Bummer, Toki. I suspect we're all a bit remiss in how frequently we backup. Pay attention, boys and girls.
 
Are you sure that just the boot record got hosed? You can fix the MBR with the format utility in your operating system. The procedure for 9x is very different from 2K/XP however, so do a quick google search for the specifics.

I doubt that's all that got hosed though. If I were you I'd bite the bullet and buy a new drive. I'd install your OS on the new drive and try to get any data off the hosed drive (you might be suprised at how much is recoverable). Then do a warranty exchange on the hosed drive just to be safe (it's a painless, questionless process in most cases). Finally, when you get the replacement drive back, use it strictly for audio and do backups regularly (even backing up to your OS drive, if it's big enough, is a pretty good thing to do...but every now and then you should put important stuff on CD).

Slackmaster 2000
 
Slackmaster2K said:
Are you sure that just the boot record got hosed? You can fix the MBR with the format utility in your operating system. The procedure for 9x is very different from 2K/XP however, so do a quick google search for the specifics.

I doubt that's all that got hosed though. If I were you I'd bite the bullet and buy a new drive. I'd install your OS on the new drive and try to get any data off the hosed drive (you might be suprised at how much is recoverable). Then do a warranty exchange on the hosed drive just to be safe (it's a painless, questionless process in most cases). Finally, when you get the replacement drive back, use it strictly for audio and do backups regularly (even backing up to your OS drive, if it's big enough, is a pretty good thing to do...but every now and then you should put important stuff on CD).

Slackmaster 2000
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Thanks Slack' , a wonderful idea. I`ll call on the warranty deal. It`s up and running fine now, but I am a bit apprehensive. The latest music fortunately is on the website, except for most recent project (ho hum...), and a gazzilion little things I would have preferred keeping. Well I feel better now, I have the other ide up and running in tandem and bought a fresh pack of cdr`s to do backups ( like its supposed to be done). :)

I hope a some folks read this thread and find a message in it.
Dont ever get too comfortable and lazy with protecting your data.
 
Could you please go back thru the chain of events?

Did you wiggle said cable while the PC was powered up?

Man- that sounds like RISKY BUSINESS!

Always do cable/card reseating while the PC is OFF!!!!
 
drstawl said:
Could you please go back thru the chain of events?

Did you wiggle said cable while the PC was powered up?
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:D Of course, thats the best way to frig em up!!
 
slave drive and recover data

slave the corrupt drive to a controller card or the main drive and recover what you need, partitions are a savior in this area...

having C on a partition by itself helps as it can be reinstalled not effecting data on other partitions (D E F)
 
I always install a pair of hard drives in critical systems. System building is my line of work, so I cannot afford callbacks or unhappy clients.

I use a small (8gb) partition for the C: boot partition. The remainder of the disk is allocated as a Basic partition as D: drive for data storage.

Once the system is fully up and configured, I take a GHOST image of the C: partition and save it on the 2nd hard drive. I use NT-Backup and Scheduler to automate backups of the client's specific data areas using the 21 piece backup method.

Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri1, Fri2, Fri3, Fri4, Fri5, Jan, Feb,... Dec

This method allows rapid recovery of both the installed system from the GHOST, and the backed up data files from the 2nd hard disk. It does not prevent loss from theft of the machine, fire, etc.
 
I usually* use a 4g (XP) C: partition, 1g D/dir (swap) and 2g E/dir for "C programs install, for preformance, and if windoze goes south on C: you just reformat, reinstall or ghost image it, i am surprised disk imaging hasen't become a larger presents than it is, sure is nice to reinstall without all the reg config, program tweaking, etc, just image a partition from the hard disk and create a fresh install/image with all your favorite audio programs setup/tweaks installed and if you somehow manage to kill the OS your back in business in much faster... besides windoze needing refreshing every so often for just MS corrupt OS build factor in itself, I just lease XP MS says, so be it, but I don't have to live with MS to use it, yeah right...
 
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