Sometimes Learning a Valuable Lesson Can Be Painful

Hi Teri,  Yikes,  lesson learned !  Sometimes there is no relation between newness and crashness.  I just made up that word !

That is so sad,  I did some research on backup online last week.  Need to make a decision.  I do use dropbox for contracts and have photos on 4 different system but still don't feel protected.  I lost some homecoming photos when a lap top crashed and it just was so sad!

There are some lessons in life that need pain to register within the individual..to make it work so to speak. Once you get tired of those lessons, the lighter ones come to bear. I remember always being told to back-up my computer files and me responding yea yea I will get to it only to have a crash and needing it so badly. Fool me once, shame on you...fool me twice, SHAME ON ME

I love Carbonite and they have an iPhone app that lets you retrieve just about anything, anytime. And at $59/year it's a bargain. So sorry you lost everything.

I hate to hear this happened to you but am glad to read some of the suggestions others have posted.  I have been wanting a pain free way of making sure my information stays backed up so I am going to check on Carbonite.

Six months ago I used an automatic online backup.  However, I bought a new laptop and never bothered to set it up!  After reading your story, I realize I need to.  So sorry for your experience . . .

I had that happen a 1.5 years ago & I'm beginning to slack off because the painful memory is no longer fresh in my mind.  You remind me ......

Sorry for your loss.  I hope someone gave you some tips that may help you. 

My wife's hard drive went once.  For $1,500.00 they told me they might be able to get some off the data off or fix it.  We could not get the hard drive to boot.  What we did is remove the Harddrive and attach it to another computer booted form that other computers harddrive and got most the data off my wifes.  We had mounted her damaged drive in a detached hard drive case.

Teri - Try carbonite online backup.  Unlimited backup for $59 per year.

Hi Teri, been there done that.  Do what Brad suggests and I do - use Carbonite.  It is cheap insurance.

Hi Teri  ...  what a painful lesson. Unfortunately, until bad news arrives at one's door, one always knows it happens ... except, only to others. I believe that a combination "cloud" and external backup strategy is best.

Cheers.

Yikes.  I have had 4 pcs crash, but a MAC?  I Guess I will have to be more diligent as well.  I have a MAC and love it, but I guess they can crash to.

Teri ~ Having worked at Apple, I can say that Macs do crash. Not often, but it does happen. I have had my MacBook since early 2008. I also have a partition on it with Windows XP. I operate and share from both platforms. My XP side has had the dreaded "Blue Screen" 5 times since inception. I save info on both sides. Critical information; ie, Contracts are saved on a Flash Drive. Losing valuable information, no matter when, where or how, SUCKS. Like Ciara mentioned, "Losing Pics" that can never be replaced are the hardest. How you decide to save anything really doesn't matter. Just saving it, does.

Take it to Best Buy and their "Geek Squad" guys should be able to get your information back. I've never heard of them NOT being able to get it back.

Dick

I just heard about Carbonite, and may start using that. This is a reminder to move that up my to-do list! I didn't think about using Dropbox as storage, but that's a good idea, too. I'm sad to hear your story=(

Oh, that hurts.  Ouch.  So sorry!  We use Carbonite and have external hard drives and put important stuff on sticks, but I think everyone at some point or another has lost valuable stuff from a computer crash.  Such a bummer! -Kasey