Backup your source!

[Pioneer4x4]

Another way I have recovered data off a dead (fried) HD is. I got another drive the same exact model, and swapped the main board form the good drive to the bad one, and it worked fine and I recovered all data.

Which is why now, if possible, I buy drives in pairs, just incase I need to pull that off again. I have 2 scheduled backups, my entire user directory, and my digital photo directory. I would feel like killing myself if I ever lost all of those. 8 years of digital pics of the kids & family (and cars...)

[tkgafs]

a tool I use is Cobian backup

which allows me to download the backup from one system to another automatically and keep N generations of copies etc

its free and available from http://www.educ.umu.se/~cobian/cobianbackup.htm

tkgafs

[zehd]

After 24 hours, the recovery software is at 1%. It is moving along though. Just getting hung up on so many errors. If the heads aren't hissing and puffing, (that's what it sounds like) they're rattling and clunking.

It's quite possible that the chance for freezing the drive is quite past.

The depressing thing is that a couple of my utilities are quite stable right now, and just need the odd tweak.

They say things happen for a reason. Maybe it's time to learn dot net. Maybe it's time to retire. Maybe it's time for a complete rewrite...

[Smoker]

or learn reverse engineering :p

[zehd]

or learn reverse engineering :p

It's not really time for jokes just yet, Smoker. Perhaps when the corpse is cold and buried...

[Jim_]

Sorry bout that zehd, hope you can recover your code.

I use external drives for my recordings and video library and copy the important stuff (and a ghost image of the system drive) into a backup folder on each of them.
The biggest problem I have after a failure is finding the latest cod rev in my unorganized mess of a backup…

[Smoker]

It's not really time for jokes just yet, Smoker. Perhaps when the corpse is cold and buried...

Sorry about that I was only trying to continue your line

They say things happen for a reason. Maybe it's time to learn dot net. Maybe it's time to retire. Maybe it's time for a complete rewrite...

I know how hard it is to lose important data... my business lost some data at one time and since then I have raid on all my drives along with 2 week full/incremental backup solution.

[KingArgyle]

Hind sight is always 20/20, but then it is never to late to install a good version control system or use one of the many free sites to maintain your code.

Local options are:

Subversion - http://subversion.tigris.org/
CVS - http://www.march-hare.com/cvspro/

If you are planning to make the source available then I haven't ever had a problem with Sourceforge.

Another option is https://freepository.com/

With Subversion and CVS you could easily store the repository on the local hard drive or have it stored on a USB stick. The other remote hosting allow for remote management and restoration of the code.

Just something to think about for the future. I believe there are even visual stuidio plugins for Subversion and CVS. Regardless there are several external clients that can be used.

[zehd]

Hind sight is always 20/20, but then it is never to late to install a good version control system or use one of the many free sites to maintain your code.

Local options are:

Subversion - http://subversion.tigris.org/
CVS - http://www.march-hare.com/cvspro/

If you are planning to make the source available then I haven't ever had a problem with Sourceforge.

Another option is https://freepository.com/

With Subversion and CVS you could easily store the repository on the local hard drive or have it stored on a USB stick. The other remote hosting allow for remote management and restoration of the code.

Just something to think about for the future. I believe there are even visual stuidio plugins for Subversion and CVS. Regardless there are several external clients that can be used.

I doubt that I will moving forward without something like this... Thanks

[mvallevand]

They say things happen for a reason. Maybe it's time to learn dot net. Maybe it's time to retire. Maybe it's time for a complete rewrite...

Sorry to hear that zehd. About three months ago, I lost a boot block and couldn't restart my XP machine and being RAID-0 I really learned a few lessons. I'm still trying to recover applications that I had configured just like I liked them. I took it as time to move on to Vista.

Smoker's suggestion wasn't totally bad either. I did a quick search "decompile vb6" and found this http://www.vbrezq.com/ among others. I know I had to use something like this to recover some old Foxpro (or Clipper) apps after a crash and it worked out reasonably well.

Good luck.

Martin