My Computer Crashed and...

[G-Man]

Hi Folks,
My computer crashed last week.
Good news is... I just got a new one.
The bad news is... I lost everything on my old one
Oh well life goes on.

[Algenon5]

Are you sure all your files are lost?
Go to the last page of the following thread to make sure.
http://www.femmefatalities.com/phpBB3/v ... =16&t=3826
Good luck!

Al

[smudger]

and an object lesson in buying an external hard drive and storing all your important files backed up on it. Cheap and effective.

[Nyghtfall]

One word, people: Carbonite.com. The cheapest plan is $59/year, and is stupid easy to use. My entire Adult folder is in the cloud, and on an external drive I backup weekly.

My wife's computer was recently infected by a virus. She also uses Carbonite, so she just reformatted the thing and spent the last 5 days restoring all of her files. Meanwhile, she used her iPad to access the net. Today, everything is back to normal.

[G-Man]

I did have some stuff on a disk.
But most gone... because I do not want to have anything lying arround if I kick the bucket.
O.K., O.K. I know there are clever ways to do things.
Any way thanks for your thoughts and suggestions.
G

[Algenon5]

Seriously, G Man, there's a good chance your files aren't lost,
and there's an inexpensive way to retrieve them that doesn't
require an IT genius to pull off.

For full details, go to the last page of this thread, "SAFEGUARDING
YOUR PRECIOUS VIDEOS" in the How-To & Tech Questions
Forum.

Al

[speak376]

I know the feeling man!!!!. that happened to me once before!!!!.

[xj900uk]

Me too... Fortunatley I was able to do a restore...

[Sandi]

I am surely no 'techie' and we have some superb ones here, but when I lost my computer a few weeks ago, my friend took the hard drive out, and said it was likely that 'someone' could get the files from that hard drive...the problem that killed the computer was someone cleaning it and then putting the CPU back in...backwards.....running a test, and frying the CPU....lol. But it did not kill the files ON the hard drive, is my understanding. In my case, I was lucky, cuz my fantasy computer was over 12 years old and slow and the friend who fried the CPU had a back-up plan I was prepared for anyway and gave me a newer 'old' computer of his that I started fresh with. So since I lived in fear every day that old Bertha was gonna finally die, I was more than willing to take the gamble of seeing if he could 'fix' and improve that old one.

Not that you'd have a lot of friends you'd want knowing what was on it, G-Man, but it seems there is a very clear method to recover things as long as the hard drive is removed and intact......but just a suggestion here that a knowledgeable person will likely shoot full of holes quickly as being impractical or not possible or not worth it.

Note that at least I got 'shoot full of holes' and some fantasy talk in here!

Good luck, G-Man, I lost nothing compared to your stuff, but still there were 2000-3000 items between clips and images but the good news is, yeah, one quickly realizes life goes on and much of the 'important stuff' can be recovered from friends in the community.

G-Man, you have served the multitudes in this community since the day I ecstatically discovered Fatal Females, so everything you have 'given' and provided was downloaded by 'someone' still IN this community, so I would hope and assume that even a 'community' effort would be willingly undertaken to re-supply the Original Supplier to us all!

Good luck, I really think Members can replenish for you by sending you things you once gave us....lol.

Sandi

[Algenon5]

Sandi, your suggestion is right on the money! It is exactly what is
recommended in the How-To Forum thread I mentioned. These days
it's easy for anyone to recover files from a hard drive, thanks to user-
friendly, inexpensive hardware. Try it, G Man. You'll like it.

If it turns out your old hard drive is damaged beyond recovery, all you
will have lost is half and hour of time and 25 bucks.

If you have any questions, PM me, or post them in the How-To Forum.

Al

Dealers that sell universal hard drive recovery cables:
Amazon.com (good pricing, but no tech support)
Geeks.com (good pricing and tech support via email)
Tigerdirect.com (recommended for good pricing and live telephone help)

[SirBruce]

Hello G-Man. Been awhile. I still remember us hanging out at the convention in Jersey lo those many years ago. I still remember rating passing navels from nubile convention goers. LOL

I have an extensive collection of material from way back when, pre-Necrobabes. If you want to e-mail me an address I will burn a stack of DVD's and send them to you. You're efforts were part of my "coming of age" in the erotic horror genre and I know your a good guy. It would be my pleasure to help recreate your inventory.

Post me a note at sir_bruce8@yahoo.com
Cheers.

[G-Man]

Thanks

[doro666]

... I do not want to have anything lying arround if I kick the bucket....

Just encrypt the external hard drive with the easy to use and free Truecrypt, choose a good password and you're safe! If someone finds the external harddrive (and if he's no truecrypt expert) his computer will tell him that the drive is not formatted and that he will have to fomat it before use And even if he's a Truecrypt expert he will have to know or find out the password.
Once a week I open the encrypted external drive and do a backup using a tool named Syncback. I also store my adult files on my PC in a Truecrypt file container because the Windows user password isn't safe. Anyone who attaches your harddrive to another PC with admin rights (or starts your PC with a Linux boot disc) could see all your files....
I hope you can recover your old files. If you have any problems, please tell us.

[Jerry]

Just encrypt the external hard drive with the easy to use and free Truecrypt, choose a good password and you're safe! If someone finds the external harddrive (and if he's no truecrypt expert) his computer will tell him that the drive is not formatted and that he will have to fomat it before use And even if he's a Truecrypt expert he will have to know or find out the password.

I have created a self signed certificate, and I use that as a key file AND a password. The downside... If I lose this certificate for whatever reason, I cannot get access to my files. Since the cer file is only 563bytes, it can be saved anywhere and not have a huge impact.

[necro_phil]

I've had success with a free program called RECUVA.