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Originally Posted by grandmascrotum
We have a toolbox full of backup harddrives which we keep offsite. The plan was that every month we'd ghost my harddrive so that I'd always have a recent backup. Unfortunately time got away so I was overdue for a backup. Luke was trying to make use of a new removeable hard drive case which we suspect is what caused the problem - there must have been a fault with the connections in it somewhere.
Anyway the drive is a Seagate Barracuda. With changing out the circuitry, Luke just unscrewed the entire electronics plate and screwed on another from the same brand of hard drive. It was a bit of a risk, we didn't know if it would work, so it was kind of like a scene from ER, with the loud heartbeat and heavy tension. The short had happened in the upper right hand corner of the circuitry, away from the actual drive, so we think that helped.
Sorry if this isn't a very technical explanation..
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That's a good story and a cool workaround. I'll bet everyone was really happy when it worked out.
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Does anyone have suggestions for an easy to use Windows based backup program? I find myself wishing there was something that was able to pick out all the recently changed files and only back those up rather than regularly cloning the whole thing.
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The Windows ntbackup.exe program can handle that. You can have it backup files changed since the last backup. It doesn't install by default with XP Home version, but I think it's available on the CD. I ended up grabbing a copy of ntbackup.exe from a XP Pro CD and it worked just fine.