Myoddweb.com » hard drive http://www.myoddweb.com Myoddweb.com Home of Courseplanner - Flight planner for Flight Simulator Tue, 03 May 2011 09:27:42 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Recovering from a crash http://www.myoddweb.com/2009/06/20/recovering-from-a-crash/ http://www.myoddweb.com/2009/06/20/recovering-from-a-crash/#comments Sat, 20 Jun 2009 07:26:36 +0000 admin http://www.myoddweb.com/?p=110 I finnally managed to bring my computer back to life, it was a hard drive faillure and none of the data could be recovered, (well, hardly anything worthwhile anyway).
I am normally really careful when it comes to backing up my data so I did not really loose anything important, but I still lost a lot of time re-installing everything, looking for passwords I forgot I even had and so on.
Outlook alone took forever, I use popfile as a spam filter, but it takes a while to ‘teach’ it what is spam and what is not. I also have to check every emails to make sure that it did not report something as that is not spam, (and it did a couple of time), I get in the region of 3500 emails a day, (almost all spam), but I cannot really afford to miss one email.
Then there is firefox and all the passwords that it saved over the years and so on.

I also descided to update my computer so now I have a x64 machine with 4Gb of memory, truth be told, I have not really noticed anything ‘outstanding’ with it yet, maybe my old computer was not so bad after all.

Maybe one day I’ll write myself a little app to backup all those settings so in case of a crash not as much data is lost.

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