My primary hard drive in my desktop computer crashed. I’m not sure exactly what the cause was, but I’m leaning towards the SHOUTcast station I was running. A few days ago, I moved the player and encoder to my laptop, which was reading all the music from the desktop over ethernet. The stream was then connecting through the ethernet to the desktop, where I was running the broadcast part of the software and where all incoming connections were directed. I think it was just too much disk activity.
I started the salvage late last night, and I was able to fix the hardware level problem. So far, all I know is that the Windows XP System directory was corrupted. Hopefully I didn’t lose much else, since I don’t have back-ups.
Considering I keep my financial information on my laptop and email on my webserver, I’m probably okay. It’s possible I could lose a large amount (about 100 GB of a 200 GB drive) of music files which have taken a long time to download or digitize. I had already moved all my video projects to a second hard drive (a 250 GB drive), so that will most likely be unaffected.
I also had many, many software packages that took a long time to acquire. I should have backed those up onto DVD+R. I’ll update when I’m at home and can see what’s remaining. Luckilly, I know I haven’t lost anything “important.” My desktop was reaching the time for the one-year Windows XP wipe, anyway.
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See? You couldn’t learn from my mistake? You had to just keep going without backing up regularly? Well…that’ll show ya! 😛
you seem to be taking it well