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wmccall:
I largely agree with dasno.  Hard drives are currently cheap.  Get a big external drive and keep file copies on your local machine and the external drive.  Data recovery from dead drives can run into 4 figures. 

dasno:

--- Quote from: wmccall on March 05, 2010, 08:34:04 am ---I largely agree with dasno.  Hard drives are currently cheap.  Get a big external drive and keep file copies on your local machine and the external drive.  Data recovery from dead drives can run into 4 figures. 

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Another option for keeping files would be  on a flash drive.  These are also relatively cheap.  However one downside is I typically loose these :D

Bonibelle:
Haha...spent HOURS looking for some of my husband's important files that I was smart enough to put on several flash drives a long time ago...Finally we found them filed with the Boy Scout stuff..go figure!!

I actually had an external hard drive, but I disconnected it about 8 months ago because for some reason the computer kept looking for the files to boot in that drive  ????? I am not sure if anything was ever backed up to that drive at all. got frustrated messing with it.

Dell says they are replacing my computer..well they would have to since all the components have been replaced and obviously are not happy together..I am going to get a new external drive and see if Staples can get my data off and transfered to the new external drive. Thanks for all your help guys.. I think I may print all my pictures and rent a storage pod to store them in.. ;D

Vinny:
Boni,

Unless your hard drive is totally trashed everything may be recoverable. What may have happened is the boot sectors may have been corrupted and that's why it's not working. Although I'm not a computer tech I have built and rebuilt computers and I recall that hard drives have a master/slave dip switch or jumper. The "master" drive is what the computer looks to boot up the computer and the "slave" is the secondary drive in which data can be pulled off.

I don't know if I would try Staples for the recovery though. I would opt for a computer repair place to have as geeky of a computer person try to get the stuff off the hard drive vs a kid who could care less. As a tech, I will tell you a good tech wants to win the situation.

Also, I would see if you can get backup software for your computer and use that to backup data onto the external drive. You can try Cnet as they have freeware that may be good or there is software that can be bought. Windows also has backup software built into it ... don't know how good it is.

Now on to Apple, I neither love or hate the brand (own Apple stock and it is making me money) but any tech support from anybody is only as good as the tech who is doing it!

Bonibelle:
guess I will update this too...The louder I yelled at Dell, the more they beefed up this replacement computer. but I am still NOT happy. My friend recovered my data from my hard drive and we put it on an external drive. The process literally took days. Dell sent me a "new" computer. It has an i7 processor..64 bit with 12 g of ram. a nice graphics card and a blue ray drive. I know I sound ungrateful but all I wanted was my old computer running XP and would trade this in a nano second. They gave me Vista ultimate..which I couldn't' deal with!! None of my software works on this computer. So I upgraded to Windows 7 and still have to buy many new versions of software. ALL OF THIS BECAUSE THE POWER BUTTON WOULDN'T WORK ON MY MONITOR.   >:(

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