Title: NO NEW COMIC MONDAY
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Comic ID #2977
Title: NO NEW COMIC MONDAY
Print Status: Available
Title: NO NEW COMIC MONDAY
Print Status: Available
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If you want to get something off of your broken hard drive i.e. get it working for a few minutes, try getting it really cold. Stick it in the freezer for a while, then plug it in and try to keep it cold. Something about the discs contracting makes this work sometimes..
Thank god for backups though. Try not to stress too much and focus on the important things; no one here is going to stop reading or love the comic any less.
Someone told me about the freezer trick the last time my hard drive crash, but I’ve heard different suggestions for exactly how long to leave it in the freezer. Would you say a few minutes is 3 minutes? 5 minutes?
Like I said, I think got everything that was important, but there is an itch in the back of my brain making me wonder if I grabbed everything.
I’ll tell you one thing: I got lucky yesterday morning. I was receiving no drive detected errors, but managed to get my computer started up. I grabbed the most recent Theater Hopper files, photos, videos and music files. I also made sure to grab all of my school papers as well as my resume information. That information was something that I did not back up in the past. Man, am I glad I grabbed those files. I would have been REALLY mad if I had lost those forever!
But, yeah. Once I have the new drive installed and Vista set up on it, I might try the freezer trick just to double check.
In the meantime, I’m totally reassessing my backup strategy – putting everything that needs to be backed up into one folder, looking at online storage houses like Mozy or CrashPlan. Burning stuff to CD and putting it in a lock box… Redundancy, redundancy, redundancy!
Sorry to read about your hard drive, that is a major loss. I lost my hard drive at work several monthes ago and didn’t back anything up thinking it was auto saved by my employer. Boy was I wrong and a few tears were shed. My IT guys did the freezer trick and they left it in overnight. I now e-mail important personal files to my home e-mail and disk the rest.
Good luck in getting everything fixed.
Wow, looks like I wasn’t the only one that had computer problems yesterday. Though yours is more serious. I couldn’t get the computer to load under my name for an hour. I’m now using it under my mom’s name and it works perfectly. I just have to rebookmark everything…which sucks. Anyway, I feel for you and hope you can get your computer issues fixed soon. Til then, don’t stress. Real life matters more than what goes on in the internet.