amirzubair80 wrote:
Everything was fine with my HD too. But one day it just died without any warnings. I had installed few programs to check the health of HD they were reporting Good Health.
amirzubair80, yup, that's how it happens, unexpectedly.
😞The Core OS install is first to create / backup. So you can recover to "Bare Metal" the OS/configuration quickly to have a good base to reload all of your apps - often it isn't a hardware failure that requires the reinstall - it could be a virus/corruption cause from an application install - so your last full backup might be problematic.
It's good to have a clean OS installer - like Asus Backtracker USB 3.0 16GB bootable flash recovery on hand for quick restore to out of the box configuration.
Then I do all the Windows updates and driver updates to get it to the point of completely up to date, then save an image backup I can restore to get back to an application install point. I use Macrium Reflect.
Then I install all the apps, games, tweaks and tunings, and do another image backup I can restore later.
Then as you go a weekly image backup that you can restore to, that you rollover every month or so - you delete the oldest and save the newest - with your Bare Metal OS install, OS Updated image, and base application/configuration/tunings image held long term. I also keep a full image or so over time as I have a particularly good configuration point - like after a new OS release.
Also, I keep all documents, projects, work in progress (WIP) and downloads on an external drive with simple copy/cut/paste to make sure I can move my working material between computers easily. Backup programs insert a level of indirection I have found frustrating to go through during a high priority restore - I just need my stuff and I don't want to waste time reinstalling backup/restore software and configuring it to find / extract their proprietary backups. If I use them, and I do for my daytime job, I also make sure I have a wad of the most important stuff backed up on a NFS/SMB/SAN volume for quick restore - so I can get right back to work.
When I move on to another computer/laptop, I keep around the specific items, images, pictures, downloads/drivers specific to maintaining that model, it comes in handy often for helping people at work and online - a nice archive of solution references
🙂Any backup is better than no backup, my method is kinda standard - I do backups for my day job as well - but the principle is the same - backup anything that would take you more time to recreate than you can afford to spend if a failure occurs - Business / Gaming Continuity is paramount
😉Be sure and get Asus/vendor to replace the dead drive. If you bought it yourself you can RMA it to the drive maker, if it came with a computer/laptop it is OEM'd through to them and the computer/laptop maker will need to replace it.
Sorry to hear about your loss, you will *recover*
🙂
