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Black screen when Windows boots!
TLG11:
--- Quote from: Shane on September 25, 2013, 02:29:42 pm ---Which is why in every system in my house, especially my work computer I always have my drives setup in Raid 1 (Mirroring)
So I have 2 drives installed setup in raid 1, one drive fails I have everything on my mirrored drive. And that is on top of my nightly backups I do to my external drive :-)
Shane
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That sure sounds safe. I'm thinking about using a NAS backup thing. I guess it's possible to set up a system that can take care of the backups. Or as you say I could get an external drive and let it do safety copies over to it. How is durability for external drives? Are we both talking about usb powered ones?
Shane:
External drives are just normal hard drives inside a case.
A backup is northing more than a copy, and you want that copy on a different device in case one device dies.
So mirror hard drives, and then I use 2 external drives for backups which I rotate and keep one in a fire proof safe while the other one is hooked up. Then I just swap them every day.
Shane
TLG11:
--- Quote from: Shane on September 27, 2013, 06:40:56 pm ---External drives are just normal hard drives inside a case.
A backup is northing more than a copy, and you want that copy on a different device in case one device dies.
So mirror hard drives, and then I use 2 external drives for backups which I rotate and keep one in a fire proof safe while the other one is hooked up. Then I just swap them every day.
Shane
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Your solution is the best, but I think I will do this for starters atleast:
1. Buy a new system HDD and a new HDD for the important stuff, and let my older drives handle less important things. Do you recommend that I throw them all away though? They are probably 3+ years old.
2. Buy a WD My Passport® 1TB Black for backup. Is that a good choice?
Shane:
The older the drives the slower they tend to be. But if they work then you can use them.
I use Western Digital drives myself. Both my external drivers are 1 TB WD drives.
And remember the point of a backup is to have a copy. SO make sure you have a copy on your drives and the backup drives.
I have had customers tell me "Oh I dont keep it on my system I just keep it on my backup drive" then I have to explain to them when their backup drive dies, which they all do, they would lose it. The goal is to have a copy :-)
SO make that your goal, to have as many copies on as many different devices that makes you feel your stuff is safe. Every hardware dies at some point.
Shane
TLG11:
Yeah I agree with that. Can't have too many backups.
I opened up the PC and took out the faulty harddrive. I also used the time to change my GPU's PCI slot. However starting the PC up again brought me to the desktop and installing drivers for the card on that slot. After finishing it prompted me to restart. After the restart the screen stops responding. After "Windows is starting" and before "Welcome" the screen just lose the input. Starting in safe mode works, but even after updating all the drivers I can't start normally anymore. Should I reseat it to PCI slot 1 and try again?
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