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Outsmarting Microsoft Word

September 6, 2009 by Sallie Goetsch 1 Comment

You might be wondering what Microsoft Word has to do with backups. Well, if you work as a writer (and even if you don’t), a lot of the files you back up will be Microsoft Word docs. And sometimes you’re going to need to restore one of those backed-up files. Normally, of course, this is a very simple process. You just find the disk the file is on, copy the file to your computer (you could skip … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Data Recovery, Tutorials Tagged With: Google Docs, Microsoft Word, OpenOffice, reminder

Adventures in Data Recovery

August 22, 2009 by Sallie Goetsch Leave a Comment

A couple of years ago, an associate of the Ur-Guru’s in Europe bought a 1 Tb Buffalo DriveStation Duo to back up his business data. Last week it stopped working. “I've been using it in a RAID 1 array for the past two years, and it's just failed,” he wrote. “Three different Windows PCs here see it as unallocated space.” Bad news. And while Buffalo offered to replace the hardware, since the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Data Recovery, External Drives, RAID Tagged With: [email protected] UnDelete, Buffalo, Maxtor, reminder

We Can Rebuild It (RTFM)

April 23, 2009 by Sallie Goetsch Leave a Comment

About a month ago, a friend called to tell me her computer had died and to ask whether it would be possible to save the data. (No, she didn’t have any backups.) I said it would depend on whether her hard drive had failed, and asked her to describe just what had happened. Reassured that there were no awful clicking, clanking, or grinding noises coming from the machine, I said it might be possible … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Data Recovery, External Drives, Hardware Failure Tagged With: drive enclosures, reminder, SATA, Western Digital Caviar

DriveSavers Answers Your Data Recovery Questions

February 27, 2009 by Sallie Goetsch 3 Comments

If your hard drive fails and you don’t have up-to-date, functioning backups, you call in the data recovery experts. It’s kind of like sending your drive in for emergency surgery—down to the sterile environment the engineers have to operate in. Chances are, your drive is dead for good, but it might be possible to give your data a new lease on life. On February 16th I received an invitation to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Data Loss & Theft, Data Recovery Tagged With: DriveSavers, reminder

Cheers for Carbonite (and Some Vacation Musings): FileSlinger™ Backup Reminder 08-08-08

August 8, 2008 by Sallie Goetsch Leave a Comment

This week’s guest contributor is Confident Marketer Sue Painter, but first a brief update from Yours Truly. The Ur-Guru and I have been traveling a lot over the past few weeks. As an incurable geek, I haul my laptop with me on all these trips, and I’ve been bringing Vesta (the Buffalo MiniStation DataVault) with me to make backups on. In fact, Vesta lives in my laptop case, since I don’t really … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Data Recovery, Guest Bloggers, Online Backup Tagged With: Buffalo, Carbonite

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