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If Your Computer Died Tomorrow...

Posted by Dukepro25 • 4/21/08 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
Topics: computer, died, hard drive, junk

If Your Computer Died Tomorrow, what would you miss?

Is there valuable stuff on there?

Or...is there a good chunk of junk on your hard drive?

Do you have important stuff backed up?

Would you miss a large majority of the "Stuff"?

Or...would you say, "Ehhh - Whatever."? lol

Would you see it as a positive thing?

A good way to purge all the junk information and data from you computer?

User Comments

4/21/08

ekim941

Bite your tongue!!!!

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1. 4/21/08
  
  Dukepro25
  
  lol
  
  Knock on wood, right!?! LOL
4/21/08

DrowseyMonkey

I would be very "whatever" ... but I'm Canadian, I think that's our country's motto or something.

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1. 4/21/08
  
  Dukepro25
  
  lol
4/21/08

thebigandyt

all my ipod stuff gone. that would blow.

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1. 4/21/08
  
  Dukepro25
  
  Yah! That would suck big time!
  
  Better back it up. lol
4/21/08

MadameX

I would miss my income.

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4/21/08

thegoodknife

Thanks, you just reminded me to try out some new backup software i found last week..

idlebackup.nl/

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1. 4/21/08
  
  Dukepro25
  
  Boo Yah!
  
  Score one for the tiger. lol
  
  *Hmmm...was that a shameless plug? lol J/K
4/21/08

monkeytale

I would miss the money required to replace it with.

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4/21/08

JillSaxon

Macs don't die.... Do they??!

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1. 4/21/08
  
  ender
  
  i haven't had one die yet ... but i think mark did.
4/21/08

jessblabber

Cry! I once had a hard drive fry on me. It took me two months to get over the shock that my files were gone forever.

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4/21/08

cayasm

Make sure you back everything up, my Pc died last and I was without internet etc. for almost 3 weeks (sob)I was bereft..:)

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4/21/08

ender

personally, i think almost everything is backed up ... but i only run my backups every 10 days.

i would immediately switch over to my old machine and instantly contact Apple since this machine is still covered by AppleCare.

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4/21/08

ttiger

internet died on the last south park episode it was ridiculously funny:)

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4/21/08

ender

www.homestarrunner.com/systemisdown.html

EDIT:
and then there's this one:
www.homestarrunner.com/sbemail118.html

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4/21/08

brigid

If my computer died??

PANIC!! Ayiiiiiiiiiiiii!

Yeah, I'd probably die. Or come close to it. You'd probably be able to hear me in the next county.

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4/21/08

medicated

I wish my computer, my DESKTOP computer, would die. I SO need a new one, but I can't have a new one as long as my current one works.

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4/22/08

melisasriwulandari

It died. A few months ago. Didn't replace it yet. Using office comp mostly now. Good thing I have no important things in that particular harddisk.

I backed up everything. Many many many times. I burn my songs, pictures, files into DVDs a few times. I copied everything into other harddisks and partitions I have. Planning on buying another external harddisk so that the one at home can be a back up. Freak huh.

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4/22/08

sophielc

It woud give me an excuse to buy a laptop; Does anyone have a hammer I could borrow? I think my computer needs to die "accidentally".

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4/22/08

Leon35

If my computer died tomorrow I would be missing a lot of money making freelance projects, I thought about that, so I have a backup computer and back up files. It pays to be prepared.

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4/22/08

boazstuff

I stored a lot of junks at times. At times, you just don't feel like deleting old files even when u don't use it. So, it's a good springcleaning then. Start all over again but will be a bit handicapped.

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4/22/08

MadameX

I actually lost a whole novel this way once. Fortunately, a few months later I remembered that I'd emailed it to a friend right after I finished it and she still had it.

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1. 4/22/08
  
  ThriftShopRomantic
  
  Oh, those few months until you realized it, though, would be just gutting.
2. 4/22/08
  
  Dukepro25
  
  Few!
  
  Close call! lol
  
  That would be horrible!
3. 4/22/08
  
  bnsullivan
  
  Many years ago I lost the outline and about the first two chapters of my Master's thesis that way. I've been religious about backing up data ever since.
  
  I don't back up software, but anything data (including Word files as well as the numerical data files used with my database, spreadsheet and stat. analysis software), and music, and photos all are backed up to an external hard drive. And I periodically archive on CDs -- ever since the external hard drive landed on the floor underneath a heap of desktop computer components and a piece of furniture after a 6.7 earthquake. The hard drive was not damaged, but it very easily could have been, so... I write stuff to CDs every couple of weeks now.
4/22/08

wandadog13

my sony laptop has had a hard drive just fry on me - luckily, i had a back up prepared from a week previous but it was still a pain to have to re-install all my programs and downlaods etc - + findinng all my passwords!!

Hurts every time.

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4/22/08

Shiley

eulogy: You were a good kind computer. You suffered many viruses and a lot of drama in your short lifespan. You've done good things for the world. You've let people know that good things do happen in the world. You've been through the ups and downs of my daily life. At last a virus that was communicable got you. You will be missed my friend. May you rest in peace as I donate you to a charity. Parting is such sweet sorrow.

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4/22/08

ScholasticScribe

If my computer died tomorrow, I'd read more books. It seems that I've been reading less since doing this blog biz.

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4/22/08

creative666

Luckily I back everything up to an external hard drive - but I would try and save what ever I could from it then go buy another one.

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4/22/08

daniel23

i'd be a better person.

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4/22/08

ccRicers

I'd have a real tough time at work. (I'm a web developer)

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4/22/08

praning5254

I would be a dead meat...

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4/22/08

pamelabaker

My son would be in much worse condition than I would. I still believe in paper and pen...but if we had a fire too....I don't want to think about it.

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4/22/08

wolfieb

If my computer died tomorrow? I'd I'd miss it but it could be the best thing that ever happened to me. While I love my shiny, reliable Mac I do spend far too much time in front of it when I should be outside having an offline life.

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1. 4/22/08
  
  Dukepro25
  
  lol
  
  I hear yah!
4/22/08

Rumourman

If the computer died, a major inconvenience. But as everything is backed up and I have more than one, it's only a financial inconvenience.

I'm not prepared... I let Time Machine [MacosX Backup] do it all for me.

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4/22/08

wenfri

Would use my laptop until I could find a Mac instead

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4/23/08

Santousha

I would panic, whine, complain and then go to sleep, get it fixed or just make due. I know myself stuff doesn't really get to as I am so un-attached to life right now

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4/23/08

choochoo

Mine died about 4 months ago, but they were able to recover most of it. I'm pretty good about backing up my photos to an outside source or burn to disc; that's my main worry as I'm a photographer. Business docs & such are only backed up every 6 mos or so, I'm a little bad about that.

I found having to reload all my software the worst part of the ordeal and very time consuming gathering up all the codes and such.

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1. 4/24/08
  
  Dukepro25
  
  Understandable!
  
  I know a photographer who backs up all his business.
  
  He has about four safes that he puts all his disks in.
  
  And too...I'm a graphic designer.
  
  I know how important those files are!
4/23/08

coffeestainednews

I'd miss it period, I would haul behind to the rent me for a day a week store. I'm knocking on wood.

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4/24/08

VampireFaust

I have everything backed up to a spare hard drive...but I would still cry

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4/24/08

lulubelleb

I'm the poster-child for backups. I'm on my 3rd work laptop in 3 years and would have been screwed it I didn't back up my business files to the LAN. My personal files are backed up on thumb drives.

Laptop #1 - stolen from tech support while attending a conference
Laptop #2 - pure lemon, struggled with it for a year until a short in the cable connecting the hard dive and the motherboard fried them both and convinced tech support that it was time for a replacement.
Laptop #3 - don't want to spook it.

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4/24/08

DocKC

I think I'd die with it. It's all about the backup! Speaking of which, it's time I do a big back up of my work, myself! Thanks for the reminder!

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4/24/08

nisha2007

positive thing!!

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4/24/08

machinehuman

everything is backed up - my pc died a few times - it's almost a cat

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4/24/08

earthandeconomy

Definitely backed up. Running Raid 10 for data and separate Raid 1 for OS. I can lose a drive or my OS at any time and do a clean install. I can't lose my data unless 2 out of four drives fail at once...then my external drive would also have to fail.

Unless of course an iceberg comes along and destroys the whole thing, this ship can't be sunk captain. I have learned my hard lessons.

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