this post was submitted on 17 Nov 2023
1 points (66.7% liked)

Data Hoarder

0 readers
3 users here now

We are digital librarians. Among us are represented the various reasons to keep data -- legal requirements, competitive requirements, uncertainty of permanence of cloud services, distaste for transmitting your data externally (e.g. government or corporate espionage), cultural and familial archivists, internet collapse preppers, and people who do it themselves so they're sure it's done right. Everyone has their reasons for curating the data they have decided to keep (either forever or For A Damn Long Time (tm) ). Along the way we have sought out like-minded individuals to exchange strategies, war stories, and cautionary tales of failures.

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
[email protected]
1
Does anyone else arrange their data in a way that protects against the inevitability of a windows install failing?? (alien.top)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
16 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

I f*cking hate windows(love/ hate abusive relationship for sure). All my installs fail or get corrupted. No matter how careful i am.

I keep nothing on the C: drive. All my data on separate drives. I backup my windows drive monthly in fear that my PC might decide to brick itself after a bad update or faulty shutdown.

As I type this,,,my desktop no longer booting and its been "attempting to repair windows" for 3hrs now. Good thing i made a backup on a separate drive 2 months ago, lol.

Anyone else here instinctively take measures to hedge against windows unreliability??

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

My data does not even live on the same device as my Windows OS. At least most of it. This makes swapping between PCs and Backups just easier.

I must say WIndows works mostly fine for me. Yes it definitely has some bugs but the last time I had to reinstall my own machine was in the Windows 7 days. Depends also on what hard and software you use though and how well versed with troubleshooting you are.