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Apologies for my absence

Apologies for my absence over the last week. My computer was damaged during a thunderstorm. Even though I unplugged and powered off, it was dead as a dodo when I tried to turn it back on. Backups are only as good as the recovery software unfortunately (in future I will take mirror images of my hard disk), so I am going through the tiresome process of setting everything up manually.

Regards, Colin

6 Replies to “Apologies for my absence”

  1. Appalling bad luck , IT speaking.. Your didn’t offend the gods by any chance?

    Please make first post when back how you or anyone takes mirror images of the hard disk.

  2. Ugh, I feel for you Colin. It’s a pain in the pinny. Similar thing happened to me five or six years ago – the lightning hit our roof and came through the telephone wire, fried the modem and zapped me in the hand through the mouse, taking all our phones and hi-fi gear with it. Quite an insurance claim it was.
    RE: mirror imaging of hard drives – personally I wouldn’t bother with disk images because they require a boot disk to give you access to the image disks. By far the simplest and most risk friendly is to make a clone of your hard drive onto another hard drive of equal size and keep it in the cupboard. Of course it’s too late for that now if your current disk is dead, but essential for next time. I’ve tried lots of cloning software, and Macrium Reflect (freeware for home users) is the easiest and most intuitive.
    Steps:
    1. Open desktop box and plug second drive into one of the spare power and SATA ports (unless it’s a laptop in which case you’ll have to use a slightly different setup – can explain better off-blog).
    2. Download Macrium Reflect and let it find all drives
    3. Choose source drive to be cloned
    4. Choose destination drive to become the clone
    5. Click OK and after about two hours you’ll have an identical drive to keep safe in the cupboard for when the next disaster happens (eg if ransomware steals your data), in which case you open the box, plug in the clone and you’re back in business. If you re- clone say once a month, then minimal data will be lost (none, if you do regular backups to an external drive).
    Good luck.

  4. I am increasingly worried because unable will trading with absence of directive from u
    I hope it will be normalized……

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