My fuckin' mac broke down at 2 months! 2 month of university notes gone, thanks mac got a new one with no files on it, it serves as a paper-weight while I use my PC now.
pc > mac i backup everything in another hard drive and if the first one dies just swap it. but i have built my own computer for that reason. i would recommend the same to you.
I use Vista Ultimate. I know you don't, but it comes with a backup program that will back up your whole computer. Microsoft also sells an OS called Home Server that will do the same.
Also you could buy a copy of Symantec Ghost Solution Suite. You have to periodically back up your machine, but it'll make an exact copy of your machine and you can get that back in less than hour. The problem is that you'll have to dedicate a machine to it and that machine is going to need a LOT of storage.
ive only bought PC's myself and have never had one crash, i build my own so i know every piece of hardware i put in it, but id recommend installing all your stuff on external drives, or keep any downloaded installs and keys on external drives. im not bashing macs by saying i only use PC's i just like the windows interface.
i have a very litle hard drive holds up to 74gb and space i used:25gb FREE space:46 hope mine wont crash by the way i need another drive to have enugh space for my backup that hold atleast 70gb and hwo the hell needs a terabyte???
Cj, Different computers are used for different things my different people. Matter of preference
And Nalts. this happened to me as well. Oddly enough, 3 years later (this month) from when it crashed it randomly started working again. I don't think this is common.
I don't know if this works on Mac, but as you said yourself. always keep a backup wich can be the first step but also, there is something called "RAID" which is mainly used on servers. There are different types off raid such as "mode 0 up to ten I believe" one type is by having two harddrives that mirror each other. The downside about this is that it takes twice the space but it's safe.
use nortons system works for backups. and always save your vids and programs installs. on the exernals. when you make vids its best to copy paste the vids you are working on onto the system drive to prevent lag. Norton 360 also has backup. bank files and stuff like that should always be stored on the system drive. as far as re installing. Well. hey you shoulda got a PC
my computer crashed once, but i learned from that so now i always make copies of my stuff and put them on usb flash drives (ya know the removable ones), but as a consequense to that i have about 10 usb drives i now have to keep track of.
My Power Mac G4 originally had an IBM Deskstar "Deathstar" drive and because they have a very bad history, I immediately replaced it with a Seagate Barracuda.
Not sure about macs, but I know with all the PCs that I've owned I just do a ghost image of my drive once I finish installing the basics (OS/mail/browser/ect) then if it dies I restore from the image. Works well. Also good to update that image every 3 months or so.
It's a clean start! Just think how much crap you never used that isn't sitting on your computer anymore. And yes, Gmail is the best place for your passwords... you just gotta be able to trust Google with it.
Think of what happened when you ran out of ink for your fountain pen, you fucking flipped out. Hell, I remember when that happened to me, 1809 it was, I must have searched the entire town, got me no where, very upsetting.
It's not the 1800s and he's got like 15 kids, so he's been laid, why don't you shut the fuck up.
I have an image of my computer made. Quickest and easyest way to redo my computer when a crash occurs. I know with a pc there is a good chance that you can mirror the drive by slaving it not shure if mac is the same way though
Love your work! Great stuff. I can relate to your HD crash. I lost over 12 months of pics due to a crash. Here's my back up plan. Both computers on my home network run Norton 360 including full auto backup. The drives are backed up over my network to a HP Media Drive. The HP has 2 500 gb drives setup in RAID so if 1 backup drive fails, I still have the other. Finally, all photos are also manualy backuped every 30 days to an external drive. Good luck!
mine has crashed twice since i have been using a computer. both times i lost everything because i did not back up. i cried both times. i now back up on DVDs and external but really dread the day that i know it will crash again. even backing up you still have to put it back together.
that sucks, my computer recently got infected with a major virus, and my whole desktop is in "recovery". my whole computer will be cleaned and no matter what i do, everything will be gone...which is bad...so as u made that sound right at the end of the vid, im makin that sound too....so, it sucks for me, and u....but mostly me. i wont be able to recover anything.
The thing you are looking for is RAID 1 or 5, raid 1 is hard drive mirroring, raid 5 is close to it but i dont think that Mac's support raid 5, I'm sure that they support raid 1 though, i would recommend hunting down the nearest apple store and asking them if your computer has the raid controller built into the motherboard or if you need a seperate controller, if your not too computer literate i would recommend that you take it into them and have them setup raid 1 for you
It's happened to me many times... from viruses though. I guess that's what you get from using windows XD I now have 2 drives set up in RAID so if one goes I still have a perfect backup of the stuffed drive. Dunno if you can do that on a Mac tho...?
Which is an external drive that you connect to your network and you can store your files from all your macs using time machine over a network it comes in 500GB and 1TB
Wow, just acouple days before you posted this, our home computer crashed as well. So we have been recovering files as well. iTunes has been...not helpful seeing as how it doubled, and in some cases, tripled the songs i recovered. What is this....some kind of computer bug goin around? Geez.
yea osama drove that plane into the towers , fuck osama , just cause he was muslim it doesnt mean every single muslim commits a suicide bombing or a plane hijack , get your facts straight you sadistic , self abusive , ignorant , conformist fuck.
vshagios , its ignorant fuckers like you who give muslims a bad name , wow the person who drove a plane into the twin towers HAPPENS TO BE MUSLIM, big fucking woop , not every muslim is a terrorist you dipshit. I think its fucking funny how you can resolve to such fuckin conformisicm , i mean seriously, 1 person talks bad about muslims and now you spread it around trying to be cool. Well , guess what ? You're an ignorant fuck,
apple today introduced "time capsule" which is a WIFI airport station AND a hard drive with automated backup. Your entire system is backed up and then once per hour changes to the system are added. You can't loose a thing. The retrieval is elegant with a "flip-book" style back through your history or search for a particular item.
If your drive fails entirely, just plug in a new one and restore the entire contents of the previous one. Look on apple's web site. they cost 300 for 500GB
I've gotten into the habit of using the HD from my old Dell as backup storage. I only use my PC for general internet and online gaming to I don't have much on it besides movies, games, and mp3s. I make sure I backup my mp3s once a week since I've downloaded a lot and don't want to go back looking for them again.
I feel your pain. Same thing happened to me a month ago. Mine's not a mac but it still sucks either way. back up back up back up. Anything that goes on my computer that I have any kind of attachment to gets backed up on the web or on Cd's.
You get Leopard....that's why my brother had me download it on my laptop, if I didn't I could oose everything. I trust his judgement because he is the smartest person with computers I know. He works at Symantec (I think that is how you spell it) which deals with that kind of stuff.
People- Macs don't make hard drives. All hard drives will fail eventually. You MUST to do backups. The Mac OS DOES make backups incredibly simple and automatic. Also recover discarded or corrupted files instantly. You can do it online to the dot mac servers which won't fail or use an additional hard drive. Recovery is simple. Search YouTube for "Mac OS X Leopard - Time Machine".
I use SATA RAID mirroring. It uses two drives to mirror each other so if one dies, it will theoretically run on the other just fine. All I do is replace the dead drive and the RAID controller rebuilds the image transparently.
Kev, you should also have online backup, some sites will offer a gig or two for free, then when you exceed that they will charge a small ammount. It's perfect for backup and so worth it incase of say a fire at home, when everythings destroyed.
Yes... once you have your computer exactly the way you want it you will either pay someone to make an "image" of and store or you learn to create your own "image" of it. After you have an image of it with all the software you own on it then you make regular backups or schedule back ups on an external drive. The backups are for any files added... the image is of the OS and Application you have installed.
I've had this happen several times. I keep everything backed up, constantly! And expect to spend a day or two reinstalling everything. And keep the unlock codes backed up! And I've stopped using Itunes for that very reason! Mirroring takes too long. The last time I mirrored, it took 14 hours.
Yes I know that its not the drive in itself that causes the problem, But I have never had problems with LaCie drives, Western digital on the other hand.
I have a pair of 160GB SATA drive's configured as a RAID 1 mirror on the motherboard controller. Drive failure is no longer a problem for me. Just swap out the dead drive and done.
OH MY GOD!! THAT ALMOST HAPPENED TO ME ON SATURDAY!!! MY LAPTOP just crashed.. and i was like fuck all my photos and software is gonna be gone.. i could download the music again.. and i didnt have the recovery disc and luckily... it worked the next day.. oh and my uncle said that u can actually mirror ur hard drive.. coz thats what they do at his office when they buy new computers.. instead of installing stuff on every one manually..
Invest in a raid array. Specifically a raid 5 that is a minimum of 3 drive. Or a cheaper mirror set. For your external data look definitely using a raid 5 configuration.
You got the right idea, you just have to mirror your drive from now on. A tool you could use instead of the Time Machine utility is SuperDuper, which I've heard great things about. It shouldn't need more than the size of your original drive to back up.
And all hard drive brands can and will have failures, it's just a sad fact.
I have crashed SOOOOOOO many computers over the years. It's always a catastrophic event. Time machine will help me to NEVER lose my stuff again. It is... my... life. :-)
i hear ya. i have a backup pc at a friends house for when this crashes. lol, so knock on wood, i try to remember that. and i have my vids going on cds and stuff now for storage. its nice of you to remind people to think of this
In theory absolutely everything is burned to CDs, freeware, shareware, backups of commercial software, registration codes you name it. Hundreds of CDs and the only important data I've truly lost is the database that tells me what CD has what. :D
I keep swearing I'm going to clone all my drives but...
My Windows XP crashed this week too, strange. 2 1/2 hours. You are right, I have all my photos and movies on external drives and I have all the software, but turbo tax info is gone as well as those odds and ends that make up your computer. but, you know, its like starting fresh and new that isn't so bad either.
Oh that sucks!!!! But now you know that leopard has a time machine so this WONT happen again.. Just keep on going is all you can do. I just got my Mac with leopard.. How did it crash????? How long you had your mac? I' worried now
only happened to me once, but i kinda take it as a sign to start fresh. I kinda like starting all over again and having it all nice and ordered. =P lol
Ask you nearest tech savvy friend about RAID redundancy. You'll have to buy a second hard drive, so you'll have a duplicate in case the first one dies. There's different types of RAID, so be sure they understand why you want it, or you might end up with the wrong one.
one time i dropped my dell inspition 6400 and the hard drive crashed. luckily my moms a real computer nerd and she fixed it.. took lyk 2 days though. idk what she did.
wow a tyrabity just to activate a seperate hard drive! woowie, my pc has roughly 2 tyrabitys on the whole thing, but i built a gaming rig myself so...go pc.
yeah sorry that was kinda my fault. so yeah.
locksmith898 1 year ago
your voice is so sexy D:
ohhiitsbeth 1 year ago
0:1 UR WELCOME
Dennisarcade75564745 1 year ago
just get an "Hackintosh"
MotweraCity 1 year ago
My fuckin' mac broke down at 2 months! 2 month of university notes gone, thanks mac got a new one with no files on it, it serves as a paper-weight while I use my PC now.
HaloLvl43Legit 1 year ago
you can use an application like recuva its free and it can recover alot of lost data, that is if the headers on the drive didn't physically crash
terryeffinp 1 year ago
pc > mac i backup everything in another hard drive and if the first one dies just swap it. but i have built my own computer for that reason. i would recommend the same to you.
meerschaert22 1 year ago
Time Machine doesn't need 1TB to work.
kevinwashere12345 2 years ago
Set up Time Machine it copies everything on Macintosh HD and if it crashes put in the OS X disk and boot from it then just restore from backup...
kevinwashere12345 2 years ago
I use Vista Ultimate. I know you don't, but it comes with a backup program that will back up your whole computer. Microsoft also sells an OS called Home Server that will do the same.
Also you could buy a copy of Symantec Ghost Solution Suite. You have to periodically back up your machine, but it'll make an exact copy of your machine and you can get that back in less than hour. The problem is that you'll have to dedicate a machine to it and that machine is going to need a LOT of storage.
gunnywalker 2 years ago
EASY! Do what I did, built my own PC.
If my main HDD (100GB) farts out I can buy another one for $60 and about 3 to 5x the disk space. Not only is it cheap but easy to replace as well.
I'm not slandering Macs, just saying PC parts are easier to replace and cheap too.
MJDHX 2 years ago
Not sure if it works with Mac but use Acronis True Image to do routine backups on another drive. If the drive dies, you can start right back up.
cygnus122 3 years ago
uSE FUCKING tIME MACHINE..
i fucking hate macs!!!
creep3k 3 years ago
Mines on disc.
oneiblind30 3 years ago
ive only bought PC's myself and have never had one crash, i build my own so i know every piece of hardware i put in it, but id recommend installing all your stuff on external drives, or keep any downloaded installs and keys on external drives. im not bashing macs by saying i only use PC's i just like the windows interface.
tuxedokat1 3 years ago
i've heard a story of a guy buying an exact copy of his hard drive then replacing the logic board on the hard drive, and got all his stuff back.
Kalafut42 3 years ago
and the best thing to do is not to believe that story.. .
erikmandke 3 years ago
i just got my chatcam working!!! msn me jane24belle
3pp0 3 years ago
mac sucks cock
go fuck yourself trw1996
WaffleManForever 3 years ago
this is AWESOME
casaalex23 3 years ago
good for you your a mac guy!!!
trw1996 3 years ago
i have a very litle hard drive holds up to 74gb and space i used:25gb FREE space:46 hope mine wont crash by the way i need another drive to have enugh space for my backup that hold atleast 70gb and hwo the hell needs a terabyte???
that like 1000gb thats to much for evryone!!!!
bostjanjaksa 3 years ago
loooser why would you ever place a vid like this on youtube
lusus80 3 years ago
lmao thats y u dnt buy fucking shity macs
SlowDeath420 3 years ago
Lol, windows pc do never crash? They crash more then macs.
t1mmy13 3 years ago 2
uhh no they crash lots less then the fuckings macs trust me
SlowDeath420 3 years ago
wow why trust you
mavericks417 3 years ago
i have all my files backed up on to usbs and such
Warhawk6565 3 years ago
Welcome to a pc users world fucktard
IrishcultFilms 3 years ago
I don't have a Mac Pro but,
iLife should be on Disk 1 and you can finish the instalation on disk 2.
K9rosie 3 years ago
i hate shitty pcs like mine
jonny992 3 years ago 2
Time machine works great for me too!
SlieghtOfNose 3 years ago
Cj, Different computers are used for different things my different people. Matter of preference
And Nalts. this happened to me as well. Oddly enough, 3 years later (this month) from when it crashed it randomly started working again. I don't think this is common.
I just recommend backing the stuff up.
Hope this helps!
SlieghtOfNose 3 years ago
i have used macs ALL of my life and this is highly unlikely for this to happen.
ihearthim2325 3 years ago
dont use macs? lol
SlidingTomato 3 years ago
Use Superduper (schedule it to run every day) to clone the main drive to a backup drive. For backing up (ease and simplicity) nothing beats a mac.
jonam112233 3 years ago
use time machine ;-)
imsohood29 3 years ago
I don't know if this works on Mac, but as you said yourself. always keep a backup wich can be the first step but also, there is something called "RAID" which is mainly used on servers. There are different types off raid such as "mode 0 up to ten I believe" one type is by having two harddrives that mirror each other. The downside about this is that it takes twice the space but it's safe.
Uchih45a5uk3 3 years ago
get time capsule... DUH
insaaanestuff 3 years ago
use nortons system works for backups. and always save your vids and programs installs. on the exernals. when you make vids its best to copy paste the vids you are working on onto the system drive to prevent lag. Norton 360 also has backup. bank files and stuff like that should always be stored on the system drive. as far as re installing. Well. hey you shoulda got a PC
Varshen 4 years ago
my computer crashed once, but i learned from that so now i always make copies of my stuff and put them on usb flash drives (ya know the removable ones), but as a consequense to that i have about 10 usb drives i now have to keep track of.
Xemoxmuffinx109 4 years ago
My Power Mac G4 originally had an IBM Deskstar "Deathstar" drive and because they have a very bad history, I immediately replaced it with a Seagate Barracuda.
NewAgeServer 4 years ago
Not sure about macs, but I know with all the PCs that I've owned I just do a ghost image of my drive once I finish installing the basics (OS/mail/browser/ect) then if it dies I restore from the image. Works well. Also good to update that image every 3 months or so.
jdwig 4 years ago
Recommended advice as per jdwig. Only diff is I backup/ restore once a month to keep the main OS/ drive as clean as poss.
GothicHorror 3 years ago
It's a clean start! Just think how much crap you never used that isn't sitting on your computer anymore. And yes, Gmail is the best place for your passwords... you just gotta be able to trust Google with it.
JonDgar 4 years ago
Think of what happened when you ran out of ink for your fountain pen, you fucking flipped out. Hell, I remember when that happened to me, 1809 it was, I must have searched the entire town, got me no where, very upsetting.
It's not the 1800s and he's got like 15 kids, so he's been laid, why don't you shut the fuck up.
LiquidFiend 4 years ago
This happend to me about a week ago
mattfox14 4 years ago
I have an image of my computer made. Quickest and easyest way to redo my computer when a crash occurs. I know with a pc there is a good chance that you can mirror the drive by slaving it not shure if mac is the same way though
fishysims 4 years ago
Maybe they should have Computer insurance?
gabe1089 4 years ago
Love your work! Great stuff. I can relate to your HD crash. I lost over 12 months of pics due to a crash. Here's my back up plan. Both computers on my home network run Norton 360 including full auto backup. The drives are backed up over my network to a HP Media Drive. The HP has 2 500 gb drives setup in RAID so if 1 backup drive fails, I still have the other. Finally, all photos are also manualy backuped every 30 days to an external drive. Good luck!
kc5cbt 4 years ago
that's some crazy Y2K stuff
mytaco 4 years ago
Not sure about mac's, but with a PC you can set up your harddrives in a raid, so if one fails you're still ok.
cobberman 4 years ago
you put the computer though the window and scream!!!
JoeSmart123 4 years ago
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ur a fucking idiot nalts
kiddyvidd 4 years ago
shut up dude nalts rules!
deycallmesam 4 years ago
Go windows vista or something, Mac does that alot more than what windows does.
yabakgibumpti 4 years ago
Operating system has nothing to do with hard disk failure. Anyway back up utilities in OS X is much better than any windows op sys.
jonam112233 3 years ago
OMG DONT DO THAT AT THE END, YOU LOOK LIKE A HUGE FROG when you go phhhhuuupppppphhhh
gingermonkeykid 4 years ago
Dont go near macs, and you will be better off, sure they have less glitches, but they have one big BANG! ...and all is lost with out warning
Routanne 4 years ago
PC owns. Macs suck. Stick to being American! haha.
jammis 4 years ago
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pc are bigger slower and have smaller harddrives just like amercans
123adrianman123 4 years ago
LOL YOU ARE SADLY MIS-INFORMED SIR.
LukeNervous 4 years ago
apple mac-crash different
Scarene1 4 years ago
Mac SUCKS
tomslatincom 4 years ago
get leopard and use time machine... then get the new airport and use time capsule...
Alprazolam 4 years ago
Dam nice quality
hoseh0893 4 years ago
That's for sure.
Doesn't get any better than this on YT.
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WideGauge 4 years ago
I use time machine, works like a charm!
DeadFredVideo 4 years ago
mine has crashed twice since i have been using a computer. both times i lost everything because i did not back up. i cried both times. i now back up on DVDs and external but really dread the day that i know it will crash again. even backing up you still have to put it back together.
couldbejustme 4 years ago
In what way crashed? Is it still spinning up? If so then all the files should be rescuable.
onlinedevil1 4 years ago
hell yeah! i have a gateway pc
pooyuy 4 years ago
PC and MAC....hmmmm MAC = work / PC = Gameing
OceanTheFreak 4 years ago
i have a gateway pc
pooyuy 4 years ago
That was so funny
kdmq 4 years ago
that sucks, my computer recently got infected with a major virus, and my whole desktop is in "recovery". my whole computer will be cleaned and no matter what i do, everything will be gone...which is bad...so as u made that sound right at the end of the vid, im makin that sound too....so, it sucks for me, and u....but mostly me. i wont be able to recover anything.
DarkLab101 4 years ago
wow that sucks, sorry i dont ahve any advice but i have sympathy!
villatortilla13 4 years ago
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You know what you do to prepare for this...throw that piece of shit MAC away..get a PC, learn how to use Linux..you'll be a happy person ♥
lilnaughty1 4 years ago
yeah pc is superior than mac times 100 i have a pc gateway and my sister has a mac but gateway is way better than mac
pooyuy 4 years ago
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DoctorMetropolis 4 years ago
i've used western digital HDD's for over 4 years. never had a problem with them. sorry to hear about that nalts
whovick 4 years ago
i'm using western digital caviar HDD's for over 10 years and never had a problem. i hope this doesn't mean that i will soon
N4505 4 years ago
The thing you are looking for is RAID 1 or 5, raid 1 is hard drive mirroring, raid 5 is close to it but i dont think that Mac's support raid 5, I'm sure that they support raid 1 though, i would recommend hunting down the nearest apple store and asking them if your computer has the raid controller built into the motherboard or if you need a seperate controller, if your not too computer literate i would recommend that you take it into them and have them setup raid 1 for you
Karred2 4 years ago
You can add a hard drive the same size as the one you have as a secondary drive and use symantic Ghost to mirror it daily or weekly.
dabbuhl 4 years ago
Dude get some perspective! People are dying. Cheer up!
lordjaysus 4 years ago
one word RAID, throw the mac away get a PC.. i've had to replace my HDD several times, never once have i lost any of my *cough* software
pimpc1125 4 years ago
Time Capsule
KingKurteous 4 years ago
dell ;)
<3
Leahzebelle 4 years ago
Here's what you do when this happens: buy a Dell.
Elzothequack 4 years ago
Hmm...
I never had a MAC, so i cannot comment on that.
But i have a copy of my main drive on external drives too, just in case my Microsucks dies.
Actually, there's nothing you can do about it, Nalts.
Just don't keep on trowing you MAC on the trampoline anymore, ya hear?
Delveaux 4 years ago
R A I D , The only way to go.
Just last week, had one of the hard drives
fail in my backup sever. Still booted to
the good drive. I replaced the drive, rebuilt
the ARRAY, Back in business without so much as a kb missing.
C
kf6eii 4 years ago
It's happened to me many times... from viruses though. I guess that's what you get from using windows XD I now have 2 drives set up in RAID so if one goes I still have a perfect backup of the stuffed drive. Dunno if you can do that on a Mac tho...?
spraycanmansam 4 years ago
Apple rebels will tell you it's your fault for the drive failing. That's apple's strategy... if something fails, IT'S YOUR FAULT DUMMY!
seephor 4 years ago
I'm scared of formating just because of keys ect :(
Sexart 4 years ago
Hey they now apple realeased "time capsule"
Which is an external drive that you connect to your network and you can store your files from all your macs using time machine over a network it comes in 500GB and 1TB
sidekick3iskool 4 years ago
Wow, just acouple days before you posted this, our home computer crashed as well. So we have been recovering files as well. iTunes has been...not helpful seeing as how it doubled, and in some cases, tripled the songs i recovered. What is this....some kind of computer bug goin around? Geez.
Kitticat1703 4 years ago
even though it slows ur computer wayyy down, u rly should use carbonite
PepsiRules92 4 years ago
yea osama drove that plane into the towers , fuck osama , just cause he was muslim it doesnt mean every single muslim commits a suicide bombing or a plane hijack , get your facts straight you sadistic , self abusive , ignorant , conformist fuck.
silica180 4 years ago
vshagios , its ignorant fuckers like you who give muslims a bad name , wow the person who drove a plane into the twin towers HAPPENS TO BE MUSLIM, big fucking woop , not every muslim is a terrorist you dipshit. I think its fucking funny how you can resolve to such fuckin conformisicm , i mean seriously, 1 person talks bad about muslims and now you spread it around trying to be cool. Well , guess what ? You're an ignorant fuck,
silica180 4 years ago
This comment has received too many negative votes show
This would've sounded so much better without the completely random and unnecessary swears everywhere.
Elzothequack 4 years ago
You could quit using technology like a computer and join a Muslim convent in Afghanistan.
Just a thought.
vshagios 4 years ago
wow, happened to me many times...
zerogunner 4 years ago
i would import everything into a briefcase and connect that briefcase to a external drive but that is on windows so that isn't really helpful
boreddude73 4 years ago
apple today introduced "time capsule" which is a WIFI airport station AND a hard drive with automated backup. Your entire system is backed up and then once per hour changes to the system are added. You can't loose a thing. The retrieval is elegant with a "flip-book" style back through your history or search for a particular item.
If your drive fails entirely, just plug in a new one and restore the entire contents of the previous one. Look on apple's web site. they cost 300 for 500GB
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mikhalt2 4 years ago
The end was so cute! Haha!
Sinny42089 4 years ago 4
Funny at the end>
NevinMoonGuard 4 years ago 4
Ask Staples, they have that Easy Button, maybe that'll fix it.
tooomp 4 years ago 4
I've gotten into the habit of using the HD from my old Dell as backup storage. I only use my PC for general internet and online gaming to I don't have much on it besides movies, games, and mp3s. I make sure I backup my mp3s once a week since I've downloaded a lot and don't want to go back looking for them again.
maxed 4 years ago
I feel your pain. Same thing happened to me a month ago. Mine's not a mac but it still sucks either way. back up back up back up. Anything that goes on my computer that I have any kind of attachment to gets backed up on the web or on Cd's.
xenafairy3 4 years ago
You get Leopard....that's why my brother had me download it on my laptop, if I didn't I could oose everything. I trust his judgement because he is the smartest person with computers I know. He works at Symantec (I think that is how you spell it) which deals with that kind of stuff.
spazicelf 4 years ago
I would go crazy and scream really loud because I would be clueless as to what to do. I think.
Jesuspunkrokr 4 years ago
People- Macs don't make hard drives. All hard drives will fail eventually. You MUST to do backups. The Mac OS DOES make backups incredibly simple and automatic. Also recover discarded or corrupted files instantly. You can do it online to the dot mac servers which won't fail or use an additional hard drive. Recovery is simple. Search YouTube for "Mac OS X Leopard - Time Machine".
rcpmac 4 years ago
I use SATA RAID mirroring. It uses two drives to mirror each other so if one dies, it will theoretically run on the other just fine. All I do is replace the dead drive and the RAID controller rebuilds the image transparently.
tgoyer 4 years ago
Kev, you should also have online backup, some sites will offer a gig or two for free, then when you exceed that they will charge a small ammount. It's perfect for backup and so worth it incase of say a fire at home, when everythings destroyed.
paul1967uk 4 years ago
scary, i thought apples were stable?? sorry, good luck
msdragonfly1 4 years ago
Macs aren't supposed to die. Fucking Apple.
MaicoMoon 4 years ago
get a WD My Book I have leopard OS X and i use it as my time machine backup
SLT23C 4 years ago
Yes... once you have your computer exactly the way you want it you will either pay someone to make an "image" of and store or you learn to create your own "image" of it. After you have an image of it with all the software you own on it then you make regular backups or schedule back ups on an external drive. The backups are for any files added... the image is of the OS and Application you have installed.
sillysillytom 4 years ago
I've had this happen several times. I keep everything backed up, constantly! And expect to spend a day or two reinstalling everything. And keep the unlock codes backed up! And I've stopped using Itunes for that very reason! Mirroring takes too long. The last time I mirrored, it took 14 hours.
biblegirl7 4 years ago
use LACIE hard drives!
realgunslinger 4 years ago
It really doesn't matter who manufactures the drives, Seagate, Maxtor, Cobra, LaCie (well LaCie is actually the worst of them all),
rcpmac 4 years ago
Yes I know that its not the drive in itself that causes the problem, But I have never had problems with LaCie drives, Western digital on the other hand.
realgunslinger 4 years ago
Don't have any advice for you. I just hope you're able to get your mostly legal software back.
kandykisse217 4 years ago
dude thanks for the heads up!!
soundrone 4 years ago
I have a pair of 160GB SATA drive's configured as a RAID 1 mirror on the motherboard controller. Drive failure is no longer a problem for me. Just swap out the dead drive and done.
davepusey 4 years ago
OH MY GOD!! THAT ALMOST HAPPENED TO ME ON SATURDAY!!! MY LAPTOP just crashed.. and i was like fuck all my photos and software is gonna be gone.. i could download the music again.. and i didnt have the recovery disc and luckily... it worked the next day.. oh and my uncle said that u can actually mirror ur hard drive.. coz thats what they do at his office when they buy new computers.. instead of installing stuff on every one manually..
cycoG 4 years ago
Invest in a raid array. Specifically a raid 5 that is a minimum of 3 drive. Or a cheaper mirror set. For your external data look definitely using a raid 5 configuration.
midnine 4 years ago
Bahhhhhhhhh *0)
tinaphierce 4 years ago
Buy 2 hard drives. Or partition yours. Have a exact copy of your new install with the old OS. I do that, but I use PC.
irondude71 4 years ago
wait u use a mac? ok ONE star >:)
deadheadlooser 4 years ago
dude ... you UNDERESTIMATED the main drive on a MAC? LOL ... hahahahahahahahhhaaaa... it's a MAC for God's sake. It is DESTINED to fail.
rarelibra 4 years ago
External hard drives also die mind you, so just back things up on CD's and or DVD's.
oy 4 years ago
dont use mac
enseign 4 years ago
I'm very sorry for your loss.
Sorry, I have no advice. But thanks, it's pushed me to back up my thousands of photos.
lisacs83 4 years ago
You got the right idea, you just have to mirror your drive from now on. A tool you could use instead of the Time Machine utility is SuperDuper, which I've heard great things about. It shouldn't need more than the size of your original drive to back up.
And all hard drive brands can and will have failures, it's just a sad fact.
kingtobo 4 years ago
I have crashed SOOOOOOO many computers over the years. It's always a catastrophic event. Time machine will help me to NEVER lose my stuff again. It is... my... life. :-)
1938superman 4 years ago
For your photos, upload them to photobucket.
JackDanielz 4 years ago
i hear ya. i have a backup pc at a friends house for when this crashes. lol, so knock on wood, i try to remember that. and i have my vids going on cds and stuff now for storage. its nice of you to remind people to think of this
achampag 4 years ago
All my original programs and their keys are backed up to DVD's. or CD's.
Ronc303c 4 years ago
Yet another argument for cloud computing.
mikeabundo 4 years ago
Do a cleaning each month, meaning get rid of old files and preferences you do not need anymore.
I use a fantomdrive, have for 5 years now.
Back up all settings for your printer and your internet connection, cause those are the pain in ass ones.
hirevssss 4 years ago
I just had a PC die on me, so I know how you feel. Wish I had some advice, but I have no clue other than constant and thorough back-ups.
regularguy5mb 4 years ago
In the future hard drives will have no moving parts and they will be less prone to breakdown. Until then...just cry.
TruthCeeker333 4 years ago
that sux
rjpilot101 4 years ago
Don't have a Mac. You see, If you've had a PC before, you would know to back up everything before hand
JoeBobOneHalf 4 years ago
get a pc.
Rkamlage 4 years ago
In theory absolutely everything is burned to CDs, freeware, shareware, backups of commercial software, registration codes you name it. Hundreds of CDs and the only important data I've truly lost is the database that tells me what CD has what. :D
I keep swearing I'm going to clone all my drives but...
TimberGeek 4 years ago
nalts, use RAID. If a drive fails you just replace it and keep going
micrisc 4 years ago
In 10 years of using Macs this is the first time I ever heard of a Mac crashing.
todieandwither 4 years ago
i thought macs don't don't crash and don't get viruses, stupid false advertisements
redneckonline 4 years ago
frankly, I don't use computers.
MattandCory 4 years ago
computers suck
ATalkingFish 4 years ago
lol 9 external drives
xxjacktheripperxxjbh 4 years ago
My Windows XP crashed this week too, strange. 2 1/2 hours. You are right, I have all my photos and movies on external drives and I have all the software, but turbo tax info is gone as well as those odds and ends that make up your computer. but, you know, its like starting fresh and new that isn't so bad either.
KiheiLawyer 4 years ago
Is this an epidemic? You're the third person (besides me) to whom this has happened in the past few days...weird.
I'm waiting on a new hard drive...and yeah, it's going to be a lot of work.
Will have to think about what to do to prepare...because I sure wasn't prepared this time!
aikitherese 4 years ago
I am not sure, but can you raid your hard drives in a mac? You can in a windows machine, that way if one goes, you still have another.
iiweeldman 4 years ago
Hey nalts wrote you a nice email on all things to do if your computer crashes , but you don't accept emails from non friends.
tidemover 4 years ago
I love how you say, "Software mostly paid for." lol
gamefreakgirl84 4 years ago
Oh that sucks!!!! But now you know that leopard has a time machine so this WONT happen again.. Just keep on going is all you can do. I just got my Mac with leopard.. How did it crash????? How long you had your mac? I' worried now
Pippilly 4 years ago
ouch that sucks,good luck rebuilding.
JeeprzCreepers56 4 years ago
that sux man good luck building it back up. that happened to me once, well the comp didnt crash- it got stolen. but yeah it sucked, so much...
squirrelygurl 4 years ago
Been there, you just CRY! :(
KJG80 4 years ago 2
Linux
JaySeven 4 years ago
only happened to me once, but i kinda take it as a sign to start fresh. I kinda like starting all over again and having it all nice and ordered. =P lol
killert00thbrush 4 years ago
Ask you nearest tech savvy friend about RAID redundancy. You'll have to buy a second hard drive, so you'll have a duplicate in case the first one dies. There's different types of RAID, so be sure they understand why you want it, or you might end up with the wrong one.
positronicpathways 4 years ago
What i do? i get a PC =)
javalu882005 4 years ago
LOL.
poonsplooch 4 years ago
Ouch! Sorry you went through that, Nalts. Thanks for bringing it up...it's something most of us just don't want to think about!
ButterZoned 4 years ago
Didn't know this wouod happen to a MAC. All my MAC friends tell me that this would only happen on a Windows based PC. Hmmmm....
aajmw 4 years ago
especially on a BRAND NEW VISTA!!!!!!
fuckin hate vista. using it right now, hate it.....!
box778899 4 years ago
This comment has received too many negative votes show
this was the dullest video ive ever seen on youtube
daharris85 4 years ago
one time i dropped my dell inspition 6400 and the hard drive crashed. luckily my moms a real computer nerd and she fixed it.. took lyk 2 days though. idk what she did.
piratesarrkool98 4 years ago
wow a tyrabity just to activate a seperate hard drive! woowie, my pc has roughly 2 tyrabitys on the whole thing, but i built a gaming rig myself so...go pc.
mazingmikey 4 years ago