A weight off my shoulders...
Now that I have my new computer, I've been able to put my backup drive in a hard drive enclosure and attach it to begin checking how well I practiced what all techies preach: "BACK UP YOUR HARD DRIVE".
After fifteen high stress minutes, because my backup drive sounds terrible in the hard drive enclosure, I have about 95% confidence that everything I need is on it, picture-wise at least. I appear to have the last pictures I took from our trip to France.
Big sigh of relief. Huge weight off my shoulders. Looks like I won't need to do recovery on my primary hard drive after all. (Still knocking on wood here.)
I can't believe how relieved I feel. I knew that my backup drive was nearing its capacity. I only have about 150MB left of space on it. And while in my head I knew that I had downloaded and set up Backup Magic to backup my Documents folder every night, I hadn't ever really checked to make sure it was still progressing nicely, what with the minimal amount of space left on my backup drive and all.
Thank God, is all I can say. Now on to restore the music and other items to my "Emergency Backup" folder on this hard disk, and then begins the work of organizing everything back together without duplicates, because if I don't I'll be pushing the capacity limits of this computer's 160GB hard drive.
I think that after this whole affair I am going to become a little insane about my backup habits. I've got one Seagate external backup drive, but I may buy another one too. Phew.
After fifteen high stress minutes, because my backup drive sounds terrible in the hard drive enclosure, I have about 95% confidence that everything I need is on it, picture-wise at least. I appear to have the last pictures I took from our trip to France.
Big sigh of relief. Huge weight off my shoulders. Looks like I won't need to do recovery on my primary hard drive after all. (Still knocking on wood here.)
I can't believe how relieved I feel. I knew that my backup drive was nearing its capacity. I only have about 150MB left of space on it. And while in my head I knew that I had downloaded and set up Backup Magic to backup my Documents folder every night, I hadn't ever really checked to make sure it was still progressing nicely, what with the minimal amount of space left on my backup drive and all.
Thank God, is all I can say. Now on to restore the music and other items to my "Emergency Backup" folder on this hard disk, and then begins the work of organizing everything back together without duplicates, because if I don't I'll be pushing the capacity limits of this computer's 160GB hard drive.
I think that after this whole affair I am going to become a little insane about my backup habits. I've got one Seagate external backup drive, but I may buy another one too. Phew.