F-disc virgin no more!

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I know why it's called "F" disc! Damn the past few days sucked with no computer! My computer was down from Sat afternoon till last night. My son helped me out and even though I know he's done this many times, I got a terrible stomach ache right before I pushed that button! I did save everything I needed from what I can tell so far, but its time consuming trying to put it back near like it was and getting to know this "new" computer.

I learned a lot and that's been great and it runs much faster and better and that's great, but.......it still really sucked to have to f-disc the computer!

I could use suggestions on how to back up to make it easier if this happens again, or on a happier note, I get a new computer or a laptap and want to transfer everything.

One thing is a pain right now, is that when I backed up my Outlook contacts I didn't choose a file type. The file is in notepad and outlook won't import it. Any solution other than manually entering every contact? How should it be backed up in the future?

Thank you for the help!
 


That sucks Jan!
I'm not sure how you accidently fdisk your computer while you were on it, but alright! I'll take your word for it.
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I've charged dozens of people over the last year $500+ a recovery just using that $29 piece of software. Its that good! So if you lost all your data give it a try. First remove your hdd and mount it in another computer, do a quick scan than a super scan. All the deleted files from the deleted partitions will be in the extended folder.

If you saved your address book as a csv file(exported as a text file)
try WabOut
Good luck!
 
I would really recommend getting an external hard drive and backing your work up. $120 investment can go a long way toward saving the boat. Also, it doesn't hurt to have two HDs in your computer, backing up your work on the second drive regularly.
 
I may be a bit paranoid, but I do off-site backups with iBackup.com nightly, along with local backups to an external drive. I'm happy with them, but have been looking for another, less expensive, solution.

Also, my photos and MP3s are on a NAS drive (so my wife & I can share them), and that's backed up nightly, too, to another local USB drive.

I really don't want to lose any data.
 
I've been trying out carbonite (Carbonite Online Backup) as an online backup solution. It takes a long time to do the initial backup (about a week for my 16GB of photos), but it's pretty much set-and-forget, and seems to do a pretty good job keeping up with new files and changes.
 
I remember in 2001. I had 92 movies on one of my hard drives. Quite the feat having 56k. It would take a whole week to download 1 movie. Someone brought their computer over and wanted to copy the movies off. They unplugged my hard drive while the computer was on. (which normally won't hurt it) BUT! It did hurt it. It died that day. I just wish I would have been there to turn it off first. I've hot swapped everything but a processor and ram but they don't have such the style I do.

I once had a motherboard that seemed to work as long as there was no graphics card in it. I'd have to turn it on without a graphics card in it otherwise it wouldn't boot up. As soon as it beeped and went thru the bios. I would plug the graphics card in (being very careful you put it in stright) As soon as you got it in you hit reset. The computer would work for a day or two until my pops would come along and turn it off to "save energy" I tried to explain to him that its not cool to turn it off since the graphics card I was doing this with was BRAND NEW. After about 2 months I got a new motherboard and It has worked fine ever since.
 
Deliguy said:
That sucks Jan!
I'm not sure how you accidently fdisk your computer while you were on it, but alright! I'll take your word for it.
Active@ File Recovery. Order & Download Data Recovery Software <-admire and love it!
I've charged dozens of people over the last year $500+ a recovery just using that $29 piece of software. Its that good! So if you lost all your data give it a try. First remove your hdd and mount it in another computer, do a quick scan than a super scan. All the deleted files from the deleted partitions will be in the extended folder.

If you saved your address book as a csv file(exported as a text file)
try WabOut
Good luck!
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I'll check out that program, thanks

I didn't accidently fdisc it. After it was clear it couldn't get fixed, I backed everything up the best I could and then I did it and started over. My internal backup hard drive died months ago. I had just gotten an early Christmas present from my dad and bought an external one. I just didn't have it soon enough!

A couple years ago I had someone recover everything from a hard drive that was showing it was empty. I got all my photos (my priority) but it was a mess to sort through. I had PowerQuest put on it then, but with the increase space I needed for backup, my backup drive was too small and the automatic updates weren't working anymore even before the backup drive died.

The contacts are on wordpad.
 
Too much porn Jan?

That sucks. Happened to me a couple months ago too. I save everything important, but I hate reloading all of my programs.
 
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TheCableMonkey said:
I once had a motherboard that seemed to work as long as there was no graphics card in it. I'd have to turn it on without a graphics card in it otherwise it wouldn't boot up. As soon as it beeped and went thru the bios. I would plug the graphics card in (being very careful you put it in stright) As soon as you got it in you hit reset. The computer would work for a day or two until my pops would come along and turn it off to "save energy" I tried to explain to him that its not cool to turn it off since the graphics card I was doing this with was BRAND NEW. After about 2 months I got a new motherboard and It has worked fine ever since.
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Who the heck checks if there graphics card is bad :D

Me on the other hand I had my ram in one cpu go bad recently, and it took me forever to figure what it was (i figured it was cpu processor, mobo, or ram)... Just happened to check the ram last.
 
Jan said:
I know why it's called "F" disc! Damn the past few days sucked with no computer! My computer was down from Sat afternoon till last night. My son helped me out and even though I know he's done this many times, I got a terrible stomach ache right before I pushed that button! I did save everything I needed from what I can tell so far, but its time consuming trying to put it back near like it was and getting to know this "new" computer.

I learned a lot and that's been great and it runs much faster and better and that's great, but.......it still really sucked to have to f-disc the computer!

I could use suggestions on how to back up to make it easier if this happens again, or on a happier note, I get a new computer or a laptap and want to transfer everything.

One thing is a pain right now, is that when I backed up my Outlook contacts I didn't choose a file type. The file is in notepad and outlook won't import it. Any solution other than manually entering every contact? How should it be backed up in the future?

Thank you for the help!
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That sucks
 
dastuff said:
Who the heck checks if there graphics card is bad :D

Me on the other hand I had my ram in one cpu go bad recently, and it took me forever to figure what it was (i figured it was cpu processor, mobo, or ram)... Just happened to check the ram last.
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WELL! here is a complete play by play in very bad english!

The graphics card wasn't bad. Just the slot. The only reason i found out was i accidently turned it on and heard the beautiful beep of bios. After that... I looked down and said... wooops. I forgot to put in my graphics card. Then i put it in. didn't work... grabbed another off of the shelf. Didn't work. grabbed another didn't work. Then I said... What the hell... turned it on. pushed the grahpics card in and saw nothing on the screen. turned it off turned it back on nothing. Removed the card. Turned it on... waited for the beep then i pushed in the graphics card and hit reset. WHAMO!
 
TheCableMonkey said:
WELL! here is a complete play by play in very bad english!

The graphics card wasn't bad. Just the slot. The only reason i found out was i accidently turned it on and heard the beautiful beep of bios. After that... I looked down and said... wooops. I forgot to put in my graphics card. Then i put it in. didn't work... grabbed another off of the shelf. Didn't work. grabbed another didn't work. Then I said... What the hell... turned it on. pushed the grahpics card in and saw nothing on the screen. turned it off turned it back on nothing. Removed the card. Turned it on... waited for the beep then i pushed in the graphics card and hit reset. WHAMO!
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I think that is how they check them at dell too. :)
 
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