Comments on: Recovering from Data Loss in Your Home Business

By: shellywagar

shellywagar — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 03:20:52 +0000

As a freelance writer, my data is extremely important and worth a lot. I had a severe system crash and thought that I had lost everything, due to laziness and not backing up often enough. the website http://www.recovermypc.com really helped when I needed it. It help me recover most of the data I thought was gone.

By: Tom At The Home Business Archive

Tom At The Home Business Archive — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 17:27:36 +0000

I do a backup every Friday on a USB hard drive.I use a web based email client so my email will be safe, I hope. Tom At The Home Business Archive's last blog post..By: Dave

By: Monday Motivation :: Ninja Booty! | eMoms at Home

Monday Motivation :: Ninja Booty! | eMoms at Home — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 16:53:06 +0000

[...] bring myself to put up a Monday Motivation post – because my laptop had just died and I was in panic mode. I thought I had lost almost everything – but thanks to Jon, I was able to remove my old hard [...]

By: Mary

Mary — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 14:01:50 +0000

Oh, I feel your pain! Last year my Toshiba laptop went ka-put, and my most recent back-up was 5 months old!!! Re-creating the financial stuff was a nightmare and I swore I would never shed that many tears over a computer issue again. (Nor have to explain to my son why mommy was crying over a computer!)

So, I’m now a Mac girl … bought a MacBook, a LaCie external hard drive, and subscribed to the .Mac online back-up service. My back-ups are pre-scheduled and happen automatically. I do check in on them every once in a while just to make sure the back-up files are where I think they should be and that I can access them. My new motto: Better Safe than Crying in My Coffee!

By: James Chartrand - Web Content Writer Tips

James Chartrand - Web Content Writer Tips — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 02:15:29 +0000

Today, I went out and bought an external hard drive that I've been putting off buying for about a year now. I procrastinate terribly about backups (and yes, I've had crashes), but continually hearing panic in Wendy's comments made me think, "Hm. Time to get off the pot, James." James Chartrand - Web Content Writer Tips's last blog post..Get Unlimited and Get your Business in Gear

By: Mother Earth

Mother Earth — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 02:10:40 +0000

man, do I feel for you – so glad that things are coming together for you

curious if we can back up our blogs, mine has become a pretty serious archival of writing for me and now I look at it and wonder what I’d do if it all disappearred

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By: pickel

pickel — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 02:02:24 +0000

Oh MY! My computer crashed last week and I had to reboot from scratch last week. I LOST EVERYTHING, including passwords to everything. This post is VERY timely. Thanks! pickel's last blog post..Bloggy Giveaway Carnival

By: Karen Putz

Karen Putz — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 20:28:52 +0000

Whew, glad you got your data back! I've gone through a failure before and paid a geek $50 to recover pictures. I use a Seagate external drive and back up the important stuff. I just don't do it regularly enough. I like some of the solutions, esp the online storage solutions but I wonder about safety with that-- can others access those online storage sites if they're hacked? Karen Putz's last blog post..Steak 'n Shake Customer Says That I Owe an Apology

By: Ria Kennedy

Ria Kennedy — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 16:38:00 +0000

I'm glad for you Wendy, I wish you good luck in getting everything up and running smoothly. Ria Kennedy's last blog post..Urban Jazz

By: Wendy Piersall

Wendy Piersall — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 15:25:00 +0000

I actually use Thunderbird, not Outlook, which always drove me nuts by running so dang slow.

Now I am trying to import all of my old settings, filters, accounts and emails from the old install to the new one. The only import settings are for other programs.

If anyone knows how to import from Thunderbird to Thunderbird, please ping me. Thanks!

By: Steve Barry

Steve Barry — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 12:19:43 +0000

Wendy,

I feel your pain and you have discovered a given – every computer or hard drive will at one time fail.

As the owner of a photography studio, dealing with 75,000 images a year and multiple computers, both PC and MAC, backup is critical.

As some of your readers suggest, and since you’re looking for a new laptop, I would highly suggest looking at a Mac. Backup of your Mac is very easy using time machine – no additional software and no thinking involved.

If you are using Outlook on a PC, it is very difficult to backup your .pst file and email messages/archives.

If you find that you need to recover your hard drive – the top recovery company is considered, by most professionals to be Drivesavers,
http://www.drivesavers.com Good luck, I feel your pain.

By: Suzie Cheel

Suzie Cheel — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 05:10:07 +0000

Oh I feel for you, has happened to me.
Des’s laptop had to go to the computer doctor last week, he was fortunate it was the motherboard and under warranty. he was so lost for a week, using the old PC.

We now have 2 new hard drives,wd MY Book that on a PC will also back up all your google stuff and with My nor quite so intuitive MAC and the time machine I should never lose anything again

I am also checking out FEBE

So many of us have been there, promising this will never happen again!

By: Lynn Glessner

Lynn Glessner — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 02:39:24 +0000

I’m so glad to hear you were able to recover your data! And now you have an experience good for several useful blog postings

I’m a fan of web backups, but I’m curious to hear what other backup software you are supposed to be evaluating.

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By: Wendy Piersall

Wendy Piersall — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 02:23:22 +0000

UPDATE == I HAVE MY DATA! Jon’s comment above led me to go out and buy a hard drive enclosure, which I didn’t even know existed (and would have bought long ago after my last laptop died!). I pulled my drive out of the old computer and it is now acting as an external drive for this computer. This leaves me with the problem of having to buy a new system, which is a much easier task to get done.

You can bet I will have a bomb-proof backup system shortly (thanks to all of the other suggestions below) and that linkbait-y post on everything I learn is on it’s way.

THANKS to all of you for your help and support!

By: Ria Kennedy

Ria Kennedy — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 02:02:03 +0000

Wendy, I just added a permanent link to your blog on my page. Hope it cheers you up. Ria Kennedy's last blog post..Urban Jazz

By: Genesis

Genesis — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 01:45:24 +0000

I just went through this last week! I feel for you. Luckily I had two hard drives and it was the master that died, so the slave is still usable and it had the majority of my information on it, including photos of my kids . . . something I really can´t lose!

I usually backup to a DVD, but haven´t done that in a month. Kicking myself, too!

BTW, thanks for your help with the hacker issue on Twitter. I wrote the guy and he actually returned my account! :O

By: Karl Kranich

Karl Kranich — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 01:38:04 +0000

I'd suggest that you buy a copy of SpinRite (www.grc.com) and try that. If you can attach the dead hard drive to another computer on which you run SpinRite, there's a chance that it will get your data back. Karl Kranich's last blog post..Whatâ€™s up with svchost.exe?

By: Kelvin Kao

Kelvin Kao — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 01:34:21 +0000

That’s too bad. For once I was expecting a Monday Motivation post. =P

As for the files you have, you might be able to read them even without the original software. For example, Excel spreadsheets can be opened in many different things. There’s the Microsoft Excel reader. It’s a free download. You can’t change the document but you would be able to read the contents. You can also convert it so some other format. Something like OpenOffice should do the trick. You can also convert it to a Google Spreadsheet, if having this file on someone else’s server doesn’t bother you. It’s good that you still have the files. It’s far easier to get back access to the contents of these files than to actually get the computer fixed.

As for the email, I don’t know if your mail server keeps a copy. I’ve always used web-based email so I never have local copies and it’s impossible to lose them… unless something happened to the mail provider’s server and their many back-ups.

Good luck on resolving all the issues!

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By: Erika Jurney, Plain Jane Mom

Erika Jurney, Plain Jane Mom — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 01:29:03 +0000

It looks like your page rank went up to 5 — not such a bad day today after all

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By: Ria Kennedy

Ria Kennedy — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 00:14:35 +0000

Wendy, I'm sorry. I'll send positive energy your way. Ria Kennedy's last blog post..Urban Jazz