So my drive has failed, its completely dead it does not even spin up.
To make it worse I got it from a computer fair so I can't RMA it and I kept no backups
Silly boy
Its very frustrating but fortunately I didn't have too much stuff on that cannot be re-installed. Most of my irreplaceable data is on another machine (that also has no backups at the moment!).
So I am looking for a SATA drive for around 60 quid to replace the failed drive.
More importantly! I am looking for a way of backing up the drive above and also my other machine (80gb). It seems a USB external drive is a good way of backing up so I'll probably go for one of those..
Are there any external drives here on OCUK that include backup software?
Or would it be better to buy the drive and separate software?
I don’t know if all the software does but it would ideally be able to restore images/backups from scratch, I.E. Complete drive failure and that works on both Vista and XP and is able to put both PC images on one USB drive?
If that makes any sense..
TIA
To make it worse I got it from a computer fair so I can't RMA it and I kept no backups
Silly boy Its very frustrating but fortunately I didn't have too much stuff on that cannot be re-installed. Most of my irreplaceable data is on another machine (that also has no backups at the moment!).
So I am looking for a SATA drive for around 60 quid to replace the failed drive.
More importantly! I am looking for a way of backing up the drive above and also my other machine (80gb). It seems a USB external drive is a good way of backing up so I'll probably go for one of those..
Are there any external drives here on OCUK that include backup software?
Or would it be better to buy the drive and separate software?
I don’t know if all the software does but it would ideally be able to restore images/backups from scratch, I.E. Complete drive failure and that works on both Vista and XP and is able to put both PC images on one USB drive?
If that makes any sense..
TIA
