Hard disk crash please help

"Need a miracle" <Needamiracle@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Oh My God!!!
>
> *YOU* are God.
>
> Testdisk is copying over all my data as we speak. It also says it found a
> backup boot partition, and is asking me whether I want to use this or
> rebuild
> the partition.
>
> Which option should I choose?
>

I know exactly how you feel, TestDisk saved 3 years of data for me several
months ago.

"bw" <bw@dodgit.com> wrote in message
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> "Need a miracle" <Needamiracle@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news68B4ECE-D022-4CCB-8628-1FF08DDDACAA@microsoft.com...
>> Oh My God!!!
>>
>> *YOU* are God.
>>
>> Testdisk is copying over all my data as we speak. It also says it found a
>> backup boot partition, and is asking me whether I want to use this or
>> rebuild
>> the partition.
>>
>> Which option should I choose?
>>
>
> I know exactly how you feel, TestDisk saved 3 years of data for me several
> months ago.

Are you implying that you went for three years without backing
up your important files? Mmh. I'd say you've just about used up
your good luck.

"Pegasus (MVP)" <I.can@fly.com.oz> wrote in message
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>
>>
>> I know exactly how you feel, TestDisk saved 3 years of data for me
>> several months ago.
>
> Are you implying that you went for three years without backing
> up your important files? Mmh. I'd say you've just about used up
> your good luck.

Well if you classify 4zillion photos of Crissy Moran as "important" I guess
yeah, I never back up pics, music or zip files that can be replaced.

"bw" <bw@dodgit.com> wrote in message
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> "Pegasus (MVP)" <I.can@fly.com.oz> wrote in message
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>>
>>>
>>> I know exactly how you feel, TestDisk saved 3 years of data for me
>>> several months ago.
>>
>> Are you implying that you went for three years without backing
>> up your important files? Mmh. I'd say you've just about used up
>> your good luck.
>
> Well if you classify 4zillion photos of Crissy Moran as "important" I
> guess yeah, I never back up pics, music or zip files that can be replaced.

It's encouraging to read that you gave some thought to the matter
and decided that your files are replaceable. Most posters in this
forum chose to wait until they suffer a major hit, then send out a
distress call ["Help me, pleeeeeeeeease, I've lost my irreplaceable
wedding pics"], then think about their backup philosophy. Perhaps
getting a new wife/husband would be less traumatic . . .

"Pegasus (MVP)" <I.can@fly.com.oz> wrote in message
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>
>>>> I know exactly how you feel, TestDisk saved 3 years of data for me
>>>> several months ago.
>>>
>>> Are you implying that you went for three years without backing
>>> up your important files? Mmh. I'd say you've just about used up
>>> your good luck.
>>
>> Well if you classify 4zillion photos of Crissy Moran as "important" I
>> guess yeah, I never back up pics, music or zip files that can be
>> replaced.
>
> It's encouraging to read that you gave some thought to the matter
> and decided that your files are replaceable. Most posters in this
> forum chose to wait until they suffer a major hit, then send out a
> distress call ["Help me, pleeeeeeeeease, I've lost my irreplaceable
> wedding pics"], then think about their backup philosophy. Perhaps
> getting a new wife/husband would be less traumatic . . .

You make a good point, however most windows systems are preconfigured -by
default- as single drives, poorly secured, with unreliable backup tools, no
backup strategy, and critical data scattered all over the place. The cry
should be, "Help me, pleeeeeeease, some idiot designed a time bomb and sold
it to me as an operating system."