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Posted: 9/7/2004 9:42:15 AM EDT
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Floppies are a VERY unreliable medium for saving Data
So sorry. SGtar15 |
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Posted: 9/7/2004 9:42:38 AM EDT
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You can buy a floppy for 10 bucks. Not worth having an anurism over.
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Posted: 9/7/2004 9:43:20 AM EDT
[#3]
sorry to hear that. Floppies fail. A lot.
If it's worth writing to a floppy disk, it's worth writing to 2 floppy disks. I feel for ya. It's happened to me too. |
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Posted: 9/7/2004 9:43:25 AM EDT
[#4]
Crap man! All that
 Sorry to hear about that as it is never fun to have to start over. BigDozer66 |
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Posted: 9/7/2004 9:43:44 AM EDT
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In the future, i reccomend emailing important docs to yourself, or buy a usb hard drive.
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Posted: 9/7/2004 9:46:30 AM EDT
[#6]
I would never trust a floppy disk to store critical data.
Sorry you had to learn this lesson the hard way. |
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Posted: 9/7/2004 9:46:40 AM EDT
[#7]
I just lost a harddrive.
Its at reynolds recovery trying to get my family photos and tax stuff off. It will cost me $500 bucks even if it doesn't work, and $1200 bucks if they recover only one file. ARGH. |
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Posted: 9/7/2004 9:47:18 AM EDT
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Take the computer and the floppy to your favorite shooting hole, afix a double charge of tanerrite to said computer and floppy, and shoot with AR15 or .308cal rifle. That should vent all that frustration nicely. 
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Posted: 9/7/2004 9:47:44 AM EDT
[#9]
yup, always burn it to CD 
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Posted: 9/7/2004 9:47:51 AM EDT
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Have you tried downloading and running any recovery software that works for floppys?
www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&as_qdr=all&q=+%22recovery+software%22+floppy&btnG=Search I had a problem about a year ago with a couple of bad CD-Rs (drive couldn't read them). I downloaded a trial version of some software that was able to recover about %95 of the info I had on the discs. |
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Posted: 9/7/2004 9:47:58 AM EDT
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Are CDs any better at saving data? I work with spreadsheets.
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Posted: 9/7/2004 9:48:17 AM EDT
[#12]
Sorry to hear about your troubles, Wobblin-Goblin, but the same thing has happened to me on numerous occasions and I always swear that it will be the last time.
And it never is..... BTW, I would ditch the 'f'-word in the Subject Title of this thread ASAP! It's not permissible! Eric The(AWordToTheWise)Hun 
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Posted: 9/7/2004 9:48:51 AM EDT
[#13]
Ouch. BT, DT in 1999. Still would like to have some of those files back.....
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Posted: 9/7/2004 9:48:54 AM EDT
[#14]
Texas must just be SOOOO proud of you.  |
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Posted: 9/7/2004 9:49:50 AM EDT
[#15]
Done. Thanks for the heads-up. |
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Posted: 9/7/2004 9:49:58 AM EDT
[#16]
Yes, much. |
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Posted: 9/7/2004 9:50:07 AM EDT
[#17]
Much better. For you, since your files are small enough to fit on a floppy, I'd just email the file to myself. This way they're hopefully stored on a server that is regularly backed up. Another good option for small files is the "jump drive" type devices suggested above. |
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Posted: 9/7/2004 9:50:21 AM EDT
[#18]
I have learned, the hard way, that you must backup the backup and verify the data routinely.
Sorry about your mishap. |
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Posted: 9/7/2004 9:50:26 AM EDT
[#19]
you've never heard of backing-up your back-ups to your back-ups that contain critical data?
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Posted: 9/7/2004 9:50:31 AM EDT
[#20]
+1 Agree, over %50 of the time you can recover it.... dont give up yet... |
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Posted: 9/7/2004 9:51:26 AM EDT
[#21]
Oh, good. I'm not the only one! |
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Posted: 9/7/2004 9:51:35 AM EDT
[#22]
Frequent backups and VERIFICATION of your backups is critical, if you have data you cannot afford to lose. And I agree with the comment, floppies are NOT very reliable.
As of recently, I back up files from my desktop to my server and vice versa, and I also backup things I do not want to lose, like pictures and email archives, to HiMD discs. |
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Posted: 9/7/2004 9:51:47 AM EDT
[#23]
... Nearly lost all my data on my C drive a few weeks ago. Was a good lesson to back up your stuff often.
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Posted: 9/7/2004 9:52:41 AM EDT
[#24]
I agree. Back in the day when floppys where the primary storage medium, I used utilities such as these to repair an unreadable disk frequently. I had about a 95% success rate. |
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Posted: 9/7/2004 9:53:05 AM EDT
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Hey bud, the one thing I have learned the hardway is backing up is a pain so making it as easy as possible is always the best rhoute.
First thing I do when I buy a computer is buy a second hard drive and backup is just a click or two. Tj |
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Posted: 9/7/2004 9:53:52 AM EDT
[#26]
My hard drive crashed last year. I had to find the original, bargain-basement CD-ROM that came with the computer (I had switched a Plextor burner in), re-install it and then run the recovery CD. The motherboard was configured to receive input from that stupid old CD-ROM player, and couldn't understand the Plextor. Luckily for me, I had saved the seemingly useless old CD-ROM.
You never know what little trick or wrinkle will possibly end hours of frustration and get you going again. The obvious question is: have you tried your floppy disk in a computer other than the one that crashed and was re-formatted? And was the floppy in the computer (engaged, not just sitting halfway in) when the hard drive crashed? |
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Posted: 9/7/2004 9:55:27 AM EDT
[#27]
Get a the good quality cd-rw's or DVD-RW's don't go cheap on them or they will be crappy in a few years. The film will start to flake. |
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Posted: 9/7/2004 9:55:33 AM EDT
[#28]
Yes. |
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Posted: 9/7/2004 9:55:52 AM EDT
[#29]
CD's have finite lifetimes, and vary by brand (I recall seeing one study where they ranged from 10 years to 50+ years (calculated)
Do keep them out of the sunlight & unexposed to temperature or humidity extremes. Best bet is backups at different (physical) sites. I have had a few computers go south on me over the past few years and at this point am coming to the conclusion that there isn't much data worth saving anyway. Get real pictures and buy books and use computers for email & message boards. I still have data from my old 386 machine - why? beats me... "maybe I'll need this someday" I thought, in reality, it just makes it easy to be a packrat when data takes up such little space. They are just a tool, (and not a particularly reliable one at that), as usyeful as they are, I sometimes wonder if life is better with or without them (think about how edgy you get when you haven't checked email for a week - just who is the master here?) |
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Posted: 9/7/2004 9:56:17 AM EDT
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People still USE floppies!?!
Buy a USB drive!! I have a little 64 meg one and its fantastic!! ALSO buy a CD burner. Remember, you cant have to many backups. My critical data is backed up 5 layers deep.... Which means it would literally take the complete destruction of my house to lose it. |
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Posted: 9/7/2004 9:58:55 AM EDT
[#31]
Sorry to hear about the bad news, computers are one of the greatest things in the world, but once they fuck up...
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Posted: 9/7/2004 9:59:58 AM EDT
[#32]
Word. Typically, I'll email it to myself AND save it to zip disk, or email it to myself AND save it to TWO floppies. Been using zip disks cause I have em already, but the jump drive is much more practical. Go that route. |
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Posted: 9/7/2004 10:00:38 AM EDT
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What's a jump drive and how do they work?
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Posted: 9/7/2004 10:01:20 AM EDT
[#34]
Forget that. You want a USB memory stick. KISS. |
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Posted: 9/7/2004 10:02:53 AM EDT
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OK, what's that, then? |
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Posted: 9/7/2004 10:03:04 AM EDT
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Yep. Magneto optical has a much greater storage lifespan. The HiMD I speak about is Sony's new MiniDisc format, which holds 1GB on a magneto-optical disk. The new player/recorders are accessible by PCs using a USB port. They show up as simple mass storage devices, and files can be dragged and dropped to the HiMD unit. It's a bit slow, so it would only really be good for backup of data, not for using it as additional 'harddrive' storage. When Sony gets their shit together and gets the media in production, they should cost about $3-5 a disc. |
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Posted: 9/7/2004 10:03:07 AM EDT
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I used one of my GMail invites to get another account, and emailed all my data and pix to myself.
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Posted: 9/7/2004 10:05:14 AM EDT
[#38]
Its a memory storage "stick" that plugs into a USB port. Circuit City / Best Buy will all have them. |
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Posted: 9/7/2004 10:05:18 AM EDT
[#39]
How secure is Gmail?
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Posted: 9/7/2004 10:10:32 AM EDT
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One other thing you might consider is installing a second hard drive and save your files to it. Hard drives are cheap.
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Posted: 9/7/2004 10:11:23 AM EDT
[#41]
they're the same thing It's a small bit of memory (e.g. 64 megs) that has a usb plug on the end of it. You plug it into the usb port on the front of your PC and it appears within windows as another hard drive. You can copy files to it and then yank the drive out of the machine and take it with you. for example: www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=20-189-011&depa=0 128 meg drive for $23 bucks shipped. They also have a $10 mail in rebate, so if you do that, it's down to $13 bucks. |
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Posted: 9/7/2004 10:16:10 AM EDT
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If you want the "tactical" version ...
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Posted: 9/7/2004 10:27:12 AM EDT
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more info on that |
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Posted: 9/7/2004 10:30:46 AM EDT
[#44]
external CD-R or DVD+-R
$100 or $300 nowadays, holds you critical data AND your pr0n!!!! |
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Posted: 9/7/2004 10:31:33 AM EDT
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Posted: 9/7/2004 10:35:16 AM EDT
[#46]
My computer is brand-new and came with DVD-RW and CD-RW.
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Posted: 9/7/2004 10:38:13 AM EDT
[#47]
It does seem a little *curious* doesn't it? 
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Posted: 9/7/2004 10:48:33 AM EDT
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I just tried this. It doesn't send you to a question screen if the person has an alternate email address registered with gmail. Instead it sends a message to that address. |
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Posted: 9/7/2004 12:16:15 PM EDT
[#49]
CD's are soooo last week....
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Posted: 9/7/2004 1:31:46 PM EDT
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after 3 attempts, I am definitely not retyping this post again, good grief
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