Crash! But Rising from the Ashes!!!

[OOK]

Thanks everyone for the help.....I am going to have a new computer built by a local company that a highschool friend owns....got to support local and a friend to boot....I will have him try and retrieve everything he could.........but its time for an upgrade..... 

Will just have to wait a month or two.....till mics sell....will have to cruze the net via wife laptop for now......

just spent 35$ on a nak pre to help ease the pain...

Peace OOK

[mattmiller]

Alrighty this didn't work either.  burned as image....booted the rom drive only... boot failed systemed halted.

Not relevant anymore if you're having a new system built, but IF you had the BIOS set to boot from the CD/DVD drive (and not the hard drive) AND you burned the Ubuntu and/or HIRENS disks correctly (as images and not data) AND the system wouldn't boot off of them, then the problem isn't your hard drive.  Your hard drive could be perfectly fine and the contents easily transferred to your new system.

[Kush]

Get a new computer and start using Soundforge 10 so you can explain it to me. Haha

[OOK]

Get a new computer and start using Soundforge 10 so you can explain it to me. Haha

10-4 good buddy!

[OOK]

Found a deal on an HP

Model p6710...........mid tower, AMD athlon II T640 quad processor, 1TB drive, Digi Coax out, 4gigs of ram, dvd burner, card reader, keyboard, mouse for 399$.....going to add 4 gigs of ram for a total of 8....another burner, firewire card and montior and I am into it for another 250$ for a total of about 650$.....

Then SoundForge 10............!   

[mattmiller]

Found a deal on an HP

Model p6710...........mid tower, AMD athlon II T640 quad processor, 1TB drive, Digi Coax out, 4gigs of ram, dvd burner, card reader, keyboard, mouse for 399$.....going to add 4 gigs of ram for a total of 8....another burner, firewire card and montior and I am into it for another 250$ for a total of about 650$.....

Then SoundForge 10............!   

Does it come with the 64-bit version of Windows?  If not, the extra 4 GB of RAM is wasted.

[hi and lo]

And I would add that the performance difference between 4gb and 8gb is pretty minimal for most applications. Unless you are running multiple virtual machines that each need dedicated memory allocations, 4gb is plenty

[OOK]

Yep its the 64 bit system.......just finished booting everything...now just adding all my programs....and internet sites.....holy shit you don't realize how much you have until you loose it all.....

[OOK]

now running 8gigs of ram...don't see much diference.....the fire wire is definately faster in this computer.....tranfered 3 gigs in 12minutes......

[jbou]

I'd set up a main drive as the OS drive and then get TWO drives of the same size for DATA. I keep all of my data on a drive other than the OS, and mirror them.

What is your exact setup for this? I just had the hard drive fail in my 9 month old Macbook Pro and am looking for a better way to manage my data. Luckly I was able to recover all my data because the computer was able to boot in target disk mode. I do run Time Machine on it, but hadn't run it in a couple weeks when the hard drive failed.

[Fatah Ruark (aka MIKE B)]

I'd set up a main drive as the OS drive and then get TWO drives of the same size for DATA. I keep all of my data on a drive other than the OS, and mirror them.

What is your exact setup for this? I just had the hard drive fail in my 9 month old Macbook Pro and am looking for a better way to manage my data. Luckly I was able to recover all my data because the computer was able to boot in target disk mode. I do run Time Machine on it, but hadn't run it in a couple weeks when the hard drive failed.

This is in a desktop. For a laptop, like a MacBook, I would get a network drive and send your TimeMachine data to it.

If I only had a laptop I'd run my backups to a network drive AND have an external drive that I'd copy all of my data to every few months and store it off-site.

All backups should have at least 3 copies. The original, on-site backup and off-site backup.

Online options are really good for laptops as well, since most laptops don't have Terrabytes of data.

[jbou]

Thanks. Good tips. I am curious about my next step though. Because I have a laptop, I am probably going to max out my internal HD with music in the near future. It seems the best thing to do is get some internal drives and stick them in enclosures. I would get 1 TB drives. Im thinking getting two drives and mirroring them and then have another backup somewhere else like you do. The question is what brand/model of internal drive, what enclosure, and what software to mirror the two drives and backup to the third. Any thoughts?

These two enclosures look appealing since I could have the two on site drives together.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817182144&cm_re=dual_enclosure-_-17-182-144-_-Product
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817392024

[mattmiller]

I've got that Vantec enclosure and love it.  It's more expensive than the Rosewill, but the Rosewill does not support RAID.  If you want the two drives mirrored, the Vantec will automatically do that for you.

[jbou]

Does the Vantec actually have the drives setup in RAID1? A lot of the threads about RAID say that consumer level RAID stuff isn't too reliable.

As a general question, if you have two HDD setup in RAID 1, can the drives be read separately? Like if only one is plugged in, will it work right? Sorry for not knowing too much about this. Im trying to figure it out.