Fragile Records

[KiltedKnight]

Being the paranoid person that I am I purchased an external hard drive that simply plugs into my PC and I back up everything of any value on it and disconnect it when not in use either completely if I am off on vacation and it goes into the safe or simply by switching it off. I can also access it on my laptop if I need to. The small price you pay for the hardware is nothing compared to the loss of all the pics and information that it takes years to collect that can never be replaced.

Chris.

[sorcererdale]

There are some companies out there, search google, that repair or can get stuff off broken hard drives, but it is expensive. Also sear about freezing the hard drive, but DON'T do it until you read up on it, as it may not work.

Good luck. We thought we lost our hard drive too, and I am not backing up all that I should. At least I want to get my pictures on back up. We have a back up tape, yes, tape, but that is now getting full each time and we should look at doing it on cd or something.

Any suggestions out there for a good back up way.

DALE.