C Drive re-install

bill-kranz wrote on 1/30/2016, 8:46 AM

My C Drive has developed some bad sectors and my tech person cannot get a backup disk image file of that drive with Windows or Hard Disk Sentinal. So we are going to have to wipe that drive and reformat.

On another hard drive same PC I have my Sony Vegas Pro 8 and 13 video working and archive folders.
I have always made a copy of the original files to the media folder for each project and I know how to successfully transfer them to another PC.

However I have not had to do a C Drive rebuild on my main PC. How will my Sony projects survive this? Will they magically re-link when the original Vegas program is installed?
What should I do to ease the build process?

I have Windows 10 Pro 64 bit

Hope you can help.

Thanks,
Bill

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bill-kranz wrote on 4/6/2016, 11:50 PM

Hard Drive crash update:

My C drive did fail in a bad way along with the D drive I had My Pictures on. However one of the last things I was able to do on the C Drive was copy “My Documents” files to the safe E Drive.

Then my Tech friend rescued My Pictures from the D Drive then that drive crashed also.

These were 2 Western Digital drives about 6.5 years old and installed together. I think it is unusual for both to fail in the same week's time.

Tonight I have been reloading my programs and keeping an eye on what is a “new” computer with a Samsung 500GB SDD as the new C Drive. (The E drive is a 2TB HDD about 3.5 years old at this time. Will it fail at 6 years also?)

We also installed a 770 vid card as a companion to my 970 main card. I have not played with that combo much yet.

After I installed Vegas Pro 13 all my videos opened okay expect on 70% of them I had to re-link the pictures aspect. It found them very quickly and I have a fresh save of every video.

I consider myself very lucky!!!

Our next plans are to use my new Zoolz cloud backup 2 TB account for said pictures and videos backup and a weekly system image.
We will buy another SSD to set up a RAID1 to further protect my C Drive files.

Good luck everyone,
Bill

john_dennis wrote on 4/7/2016, 12:02 AM

"[I]Will it fail at 6 years also?[/I]"

It will fail. That's all you have to remember.

flyingski wrote on 4/7/2016, 2:00 AM

For less than the price of recovering a failed drive you can install a NAS with 16T of RAID storage. What you back up and save is your option.

bill-kranz wrote on 4/8/2016, 2:06 PM

I will look into this option with my tech person also and understand they can have a higher level of reliability.

In reading about the SSD's, they can have a different type of problem with errors.

It seems a multi-pronged system of backups is the best way but takes up more time to implement. I am adding my 500 GB USB type external drive as a "quick dump" for finished video projects and pics along with the other options I discussed earlier.

Then at the 5.5 year mark for my E drive I will consider scrapping that for a new one.

Thanks for your thoughts,
Bill