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Originally posted by HardDrive
I personally think everyone should have an external hard drive for storage and backups. Its a sad ****** day when your hard drive quits with all of your family photos on it......
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Amen! I keep my pictures on my machine, copied to an external hard drive, and occasionally burn them to DVDs for permanent backup.
Mom and dad went to Australia recently, dad bought a USB memory stick to transfer pictures from their very first digital camera. He was copying files to it on one of my mom's rellies' computers, and XP finished the copy, but the next time he went to plug the drive into another machine... xp said there was no media in the drive and wouldn't read the key! He probably had over 1000 pictures on it!
He's been trying applications to try to mount it, but hasn't had any luck.. I told him to check into data recovery.
If I were in such a situation (travelling, taking lots of pictures, and needing to store them)... I'd take some blank CDs to burn them to... something that would be very unlikely to get hosed up.
I hope he gets the pics back... they would be a once-in-a-lifetime experience lost if he doesn't get them back...