So I managed to save an image of my hard drive to an external drive.
Then copy it back to a new drive I installed.
The old drive is taking a long deserved nap in the box the new drive came in, its 7.75 years old.
It still worked, but I was getting nervous.
The new drive is the exact same model number as the old drive.
Which means its probably been sitting in a cardboard box for the last 5+ years.
So its all working for 2 days now.
I never copied a drive before.
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Re: Hard drive
My latop and usb collection have no idea what you just said.
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Re: Hard drive
good, backups are super important
i should go back up my computer...
i should go back up my computer...
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Re: Hard drive
That's ok because you have a cool sig now.TheVengefulOne wrote:My latop and usb collection have no idea what you just said.
sahasrahla:
I never made an image before. I do file backups of all my work every day.
The backup took almost 3 hours, and the recovery took 2 hours.
I used the Acronis version made for Western Digital, so it was free.
They do have a lot of docs, but things could be worded better.
They use the word Backup for:
- a full drive image
- a single partition
- just data files
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Re: Hard drive
Two identical drives? That is calling for a RAID 1 setup if you ask me. Especially as new drives are more likely to fail due to manufacturing defect then mid-life drives. But then you still need a separate, preferably off-site storage for extra redundancy. And at that point, cloud services are probably your best bet.
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Re: Hard drive
I bought the same model number so I figured I would have no problems with sector formats.
The old ones are 512, Advanced format drives are 4k, all drives since maybe 2012 are 4k
I removed the old drive entirely and just the new drive is in the computer now, no Raids.
Yeah I know its a wait and see situation in the first year for this new drive.
I do have the old drive in a cardboard box and the external WD Passport 2T drive with the image.
I do store data only in DropBox, no disk images since I only just made one first time, all my programming and art is there.
And memes
all my memes are on dropbox
The old ones are 512, Advanced format drives are 4k, all drives since maybe 2012 are 4k
I removed the old drive entirely and just the new drive is in the computer now, no Raids.
Yeah I know its a wait and see situation in the first year for this new drive.
I do have the old drive in a cardboard box and the external WD Passport 2T drive with the image.
I do store data only in DropBox, no disk images since I only just made one first time, all my programming and art is there.
And memes
all my memes are on dropbox