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From: alex@athertn.Atherton.COM (Alex Leavens)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Sooner or later it _will_ happen to you.
Message-ID: <17829@laurel.athertn.Atherton.COM>
Date: 5 Feb 90 22:30:55 GMT
Reply-To: alex@Atherton.COM (Alex Leavens)
Organization: Atherton Technology, Sunnyvale, CA
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Over the weekend I managed to completely blow away my hard drive.  It wouldn't
boot, it wouldn't talk to my ST at all, even when I ran AHDI from floppy.

Wouldn't do _nuthin'_.

~60 meg, gone, all gone.

Would you beleive that this has a happy ending?  I had just made 
backups 2 days earlier, and hadn't done anything since.  (Well,
I'd done a little, but it was easily recoverable).  I didn't lose
anything except the 4 hours it took me to reformat and restore my
harddrive.

Moral:
	It can happen to you.
	It will happen to you.
	Unless you have good backups, you are scr*wed.
	Unless you have an easy way to make them, you
		won't have good backups.
	Get a good backup system, _now_.

The buns you save may be your own.


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