Reply to: Burning images to DVD and disaster strikes.

[Fred Bloggs]

Then how about something like one of these

From under 50 notes for quick and easy offsite backup.

Great idea, I have a Toshiba 500Gb USB drive that I got a few weeks ago for about £55

[meridian]

external hard drives

Then how about something like one of these

From under 50 notes for quick and easy offsite backup.

[Fred Bloggs]

That's not really an issue with IDrive, you can schedule the backups to only run at 3 A.M. on a tuesday morning if you like.
Then you just have to remember to leave your computer switched on overnight once a week.

Good point. However, since having a PC's power supply burst into flames last year, I'll no longer leave one switched on for long periods unsupervised!

[blacjac]

Thanks, I am crippled by a very slooowwww wet string ADSL connection so it isn't really practical. I do have back up strategies in place for important stuff on networked drives/flash drives/DVD's but for the pictures I'd overlooked them really!

That's not really an issue with IDrive, you can schedule the backups to only run at 3 A.M. on a tuesday morning if you like.
Then you just have to remember to leave your computer switched on overnight once a week.

[NickFitz]

Yes, thanks for the help

I didn't, actually - but I'm happy to take credit due to others

[Fred Bloggs]

I would also recomend something like this:
www.idrive.com

Thanks, I am crippled by a very slooowwww wet string ADSL connection so it isn't really practical. I do have back up strategies in place for important stuff on networked drives/flash drives/DVD's but for the pictures I'd overlooked them really!

[Fred Bloggs]

All's well that ends well

Yes, thanks for the help

[blacjac]

I would also recomend something like this:
www.idrive.com

[NickFitz]

Anyhow, I finally used an app called "photorec_win" which is a freeware exe file that somewhat bizarrely in 2008 runs in a DOS window but does exactly what it says on the tin without even "installing" to the hard drive. Just double click and go The directory structure wasn't recovered, but I can now sort the pictures by date and sort them out. I've now got the images on 2 x 2Gb flash drives, a hard disk and a DVD-R

All's well that ends well

[Fred Bloggs]

Let us know what happens.

Well............ It seems there's a bunch of recovery apps out there. Snag #1 Is that until you try and use them they do not always actually tell you that they do not support optical media. Some apps support only flash media, some support only hard disk drives. Until you try them out you do not always know.

Snag #2 Is that the "free" apps that are available install themselves and identify all the recoverable files, lovely..... Then they tell you to pay xxx $'s before you can actually recover the files. Now, I do not mind paying a few $'s but I prefer to be told upfront. I've wasted several hours installing/uninstalling apps that I can't/won't use. Grrrrrr.

Anyhow, I finally used an app called "photorec_win" which is a freeware exe file that somewhat bizarrely in 2008 runs in a DOS window but does exactly what it says on the tin without even "installing" to the hard drive. Just double click and go The directory structure wasn't recovered, but I can now sort the pictures by date and sort them out. I've now got the images on 2 x 2Gb flash drives, a hard disk and a DVD-R

[Clippy]

Let us know what happens.

[Fred Bloggs]

Thanks for the comments above. Yes, just 1 disk, but that's going to change....... Ironically, I keep 3 copies of just about everything else. It's an oversight on my part

[Moscow Mule]

You've got something that important on only one disk?

Crikey.

[scooterscot]

Thanks all. I "thought" the images "should" still be there as it is an "R" not an "RW" disk. I appreciate the thoughts, I'll look at this again later.

Also remember if the drive was wiping the entire 4gig that would have taken a while at least 10 minutes, you'd have noticed.

[Fred Bloggs]

Thanks all. I "thought" the images "should" still be there as it is an "R" not an "RW" disk. I appreciate the thoughts, I'll look at this again later.