Good News!!!!!......I just had to tell someone, and you guys are someone...
In case you haven't noticed, I like to take alot of pictures during my adventures in life. Including taking pictures of our 3 year old daughter. During an average 3 day outing at the river I normally come home with between 200 and 300 digital pics. My wife will usually take another 100 or so a month of our daughter.
Over the past few months the wife has been bugging me to back-up the photos on disk just in case the computer took a dump on us. I always said, "Yeah, tomorrow." We'll tomorrow never came and about 4 weeks ago my computer wouldn't boot up. I had the idiots from the "Geek Squad" look at it and they told me my hard-drive was fried and there would be no way to get it to boot up. I eventually sent it out to a "computer specialist" in Southern Orange County who told me the same thing.
At this point I was being told the only way I could recover my 7,000 + pictures was through a "Data Recovery" company. I got several estimates from some recovery companies that came back anywhere between $800 and $2,500 dollars (with no guarantee that all my pics would be recovered). Because almost all the pictures from the first 3 years of our daughters life were on the computer, I was going to roll the dice and pay a recovery company to work on the hard drive.
During passing I was talking to one of the computer tech guys at my work. He said to bring the hard drive in and he could take a look at it for me. I thought "what do I have to loose", and brought it to him. GOOD NEWS!!!!!!!!! He was able to access all the pictures (8,354 to be axact) and they have been recovered. When I called my wife and told her, she actually got choked up and started to cry. She was soooo happy because she thought that we had lost our daughter's baby pictures.
I know this is kinda long winded but I wanted to post this to remind everyone to BACK UP YOUR HARD DRIVES..... I have since bought a new computer and also purchased an externeal hard drive (A 200 GB external drive only cost about a hundred bucks). I now save all my pictures on both the regular computer and the external drive and also back them up on disk once a month....
I'm back in business guys, the River918 pictures can begin flowing again.
Oh yeah; F- BEST BUY and The GEEK SQUAD!!!!!
Good to hear you recovered your pictures.
It may sound like overkill but I make two CD copies and keep one at home and then take the other to the Havasu house. With the possibility of earthquakes, flood and fires I would hate to lose those memories. Even if you had a shoebox you could leave at a family members house it would be a nice secondary backup.
Good job Brian.....keep clickin away, your pics are always welcome here :rollside:
I must have missed something...I don't see any personal info in that post.
we load all of our pictures to Ofoto and also have an external hard drive...glad to hear you recovered everything.. you owe that guy at work at least a good dinner or something..
Hey River 918
If you ever need copies of any of the pics youve posted here on HB let me know. I have everyone of them saved and put away somewhere safe, they are some of my favorites.
I'm not sure if I have this correct, but I think you are LE. If so, what the hell are you thinking by posting all this personal stuff on a public website.
Don't get me wrong, you probably don't indend for any of this to end up in the wrong hands. But, from a professional standpoint (LE) you are opening your family up to potential problems... be careful!
Any questions PM me... I will not elaborate out of respect.
WOW!!!! "What the hell are you thinking".......
seems you are making some pretty big assumptions.... (LE)?....I don't know what that means, but I think the guys at work would share in the enjoyment of getting back three years of memories, and my state contractors license will be safe (Unless Arnie has changed some rules lately).....
As of right now I can't think of any questions I have for you....I will keep you in mind if I need advise regarding any issues in the future....
I was just trying to offer a little advise to the many friends I have out there, and share a happy story with everyone..
Take it for what it's worth...
we load all of our pictures to Ofoto and also have an external hard drive...glad to hear you recovered everything.. you owe that guy at work at least a good dinner or something..
Yep, gonna get him a fat gift certificate so he can take his wife to a nice dinner..
Good to hear you recovered your pictures.
It may sound like overkill but I make two CD copies and keep one at home and then take the other to the Havasu house. With the possibility of earthquakes, flood and fires I would hate to lose those memories. Even if you had a shoebox you could leave at a family members house it would be a nice secondary backup.
Not overkill at all IMO considering the unreliability of CD's and the fact they're easily damaged.
I back up everything to a second computer and and external hard drive which goes offsite. At least weekly and many times more often.
You should keep at least two copies of valuable data, in separate locations. I use both an external HD and a DVD burner....4.6g per disk with data files. External drive backups up weekly and is very cost effective.
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