OK, so do't be stupid like me

[cnsranch]

Hard lesson learned........

PC at the Office, Laptop at home.

Thought I was being smart, five years of MPCs, MPL's, you name it on a flash drive that I carried back and forth. Nothing but Designer on the computers.

You guessed it - flash drive went to flash drive heaven.

So, starting over.

Don't be stupid like me.

BTW, with the way technology's changing, I bought my daughter-in-law a 2 TB portable hard drive for less than $100.

Wish rhey had those gizmos back in '08

[Bigtyme]

That is terrible, Jerry. Those are a lot of years to lose. Thanks for the reminder to back things up. I actually started using google drive a month ago along with a back up every now and again and what I work on at the office shows up on my laptop at home without having to carry anyting back and forth. It has a 15 gig free limit, so it will be a long time before projects and patterns for my cw hit that limit...

[CW-HAL9000]

I use a dropbox folder, also free. I keep all cw files in that folder so its a free automatic backup.

[DocWheeler]

Jerry,

Have you contacted anyone to see if the data can be retrieved?

[TerryT]

I'm paronoid about that kind of thing. I keep a full set of everything backups on at least 3 computers. Also have a couple of sets of 32 meg thumb drives. I keep one set in my office and another in my car. Plus backups of everything plus websites on remote server.

AND I STILL LOOSE STUFF!!

[peep]

I think I'll do a backup tonight. Scary.

[DocWheeler]

I'm paronoid about that kind of thing. I keep a full set of everything backups on at least 3 computers. Also have a couple of sets of 32 meg thumb drives. I keep one set in my office and another in my car. Plus backups of everything plus websites on remote server.

AND I STILL LOOSE STUFF!!

No wonder, where would you start to look?

[dbfletcher]

If the flash drive is recognized by the pc, ther is probably a 70-80% chance it can be recovered. If it doesnt even show up in device manager when you plug it in, then we are probably dropping down to a 10-20% chance.

[James RS]

You're not alone, I was actually also just starting to backup my hard drive.
When mine crashed and couldn't be revived, I also purchase 2 - 1.5 T drives

[cnsranch]

RE recovering the info on the drive - MicroCenter will do it for $400............