Baldock/Fagg/Small Family History

After an almost catastrophic hard disk failure, and a protracted period trying to get the data ‘repaired’ and migrated, and the operating system reinstalled, my computer finally got back up and running.

Hard Disk failure (Photo credit: shibuya246)

Fortunately for me, although the S.M.A.R.T. data on the drive (sorry, technophobes!) was telling me that it was only 5% healthy (!), it remained stable enough for me to get all my important genealogy data recovered. I then had to reinstall the OS, and reinstall (and configure) my software before I could get going again.

I am glad to say, that I am now back up and running. I will also be revisiting my backup strategy which, although I had one, was probably not ideal.

Note to all: If you don’t want to suffer premature hair loss, or major stress, make sure you have a backup strategy, make sure you test it with dummy restores, and then make sure you have another strategy!!