well dark I was worried that my main system would die I had some cds but these were out of date, in fact the last cd I made was in 07. Most stuff is to big to backup to cd now anyway.
the issue with the drive took about 2 months to find out it was actually dead then another 3 months to find replacement drives. nerve racking I tell you, though little chance of everything dieing unless we have a stove blow, a fire, earthquake or other issue, or the house get hit by lightning. At 05:54 a.m. 8/01/2010, you wrote: >Ouch damien, ----- nasty! > >Myself, for backup purposes i use a full external self-powered harddrive which >even has a separate power supply, and spends most of it's time in my bottom >draw when not actually used to back things up. > >I do admit though, if this and my main desktop failed simultaniously, ---- >as seemed to happen to you, I'd also be up the creak without a paddle, ---- >especially sinse my laptop only has a 32 gb drive so cannot store much at all. > >I just hope you can yank stuff back from this. > >all the best, > >Dark. >----- Original Message ----- From: "Damien Sadler" ><dam...@x-sight-interactive.net> >To: <gamers@audyssey.org> >Sent: Thursday, January 07, 2010 2:51 PM >Subject: [Audyssey] X-Sight Interactive News > > >Hi folks, >After a hectic Christmas holiday, we have cleaned up the website a little, and >we are now hopefully on the run again. However, there is a slight hitch. >On December 26, 2009, at approximately lunchtime, our main machine became >unusable due to a motherboard failure. According to the manufacturer it has >also affected the hard drive. Not being insured for any data, the manufacturer >have replaced the drive and disposed of the original. >Luckily for us, all our data was backed up on an external drive, so at first, >this was not a big issue. However, it would be our luck that yesterday, >January 7, 2010, again at approximately lunchtime, our 16 month old 500GB >Western Digital hard drive in USB caddy became mechanically faulty as well. To >add insult to injury, the spare machine we are using had to be reformatted, >because Windows kindly decided to save the broken drive's MFT to the internal. >In short, plain English, we have lost all our data, which includes over 50GB >of sound effects costing over £2500, approximately 5GB of incomplete and >released materials, and an absolute handful of software in all categories of >distribution and function. >I am currently in contact with a data recovery specialist to see what he can >do, however I am thinking that chances are slim in retrieving the data, either >because of physical damage to the disks, or because of our financial situation. >I have kept the website up for convenience purposes, but support for available >software will be extremely limited until I can get it rewritten. >As a side note, if anybody can give me any tips on backing up data securely >and reliably short of buying two dozen hard drives I would be most thankful. >*Smile* >Regards, >Damien C. Sadler >Annoyed X-Sight Interactive manager. >--- >Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org >If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. >You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at >http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. >All messages are archived and can be searched and read at >http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. >If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, >please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. > >--- >Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org >If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. >You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at >http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. >All messages are archived and can be searched and read at >http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. >If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, >please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
