I know this isn't really the best place for this question but I am a bit desperate and I trust the level of knowledge on this board so please forgive me in advance.
It looks like I may have lost my main HD on my PC, after looking on google etc there seems to be plenty of data recovery programs etc so hopefully I will be able to save all my info but the fact that the HD has died and is less than 1 yr old has scared the hell out of. This HD has thousdands of irreplacable family photo's on, loads of software and books I have bought from places like clickbank and all the emails which give me the passwords etc to redownload them all. All my webdesign stuff, site backups etc etc....
As you can imagine i am a bit gutted and so I have decided to make sure this never happens again and this is where i need help.... What is the best way to ensure this type of thing cant happen again?? I have previously tried using Nero (i think) to back up my HD but if i remember corrctly it also wanted to back up the empty space and so for my 200gig drive it was going to take ages and a pile of dvd's so I dont really see this as a viable on going solution. yes I could back up the pics once a month but still not ideal.
can you buy an external raid type box with 2 drives in that will mirror each other or anyhting like that..... saying that I dont need 2 drives in the external box just one to mirror my HD????
if anyone has any advice on what softare to try to restore my data then please let me know....
Cheers
It looks like I may have lost my main HD on my PC, after looking on google etc there seems to be plenty of data recovery programs etc so hopefully I will be able to save all my info but the fact that the HD has died and is less than 1 yr old has scared the hell out of. This HD has thousdands of irreplacable family photo's on, loads of software and books I have bought from places like clickbank and all the emails which give me the passwords etc to redownload them all. All my webdesign stuff, site backups etc etc....
As you can imagine i am a bit gutted and so I have decided to make sure this never happens again and this is where i need help.... What is the best way to ensure this type of thing cant happen again?? I have previously tried using Nero (i think) to back up my HD but if i remember corrctly it also wanted to back up the empty space and so for my 200gig drive it was going to take ages and a pile of dvd's so I dont really see this as a viable on going solution. yes I could back up the pics once a month but still not ideal.
can you buy an external raid type box with 2 drives in that will mirror each other or anyhting like that..... saying that I dont need 2 drives in the external box just one to mirror my HD????
if anyone has any advice on what softare to try to restore my data then please let me know....
Cheers