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I posted on this last week. I have good news.
I had an External drive go bad, or so I thought.. It's a Western Digitial 500gb drive. It is probably 90% full. The external enclosure had gone bad - the USB socket came off the board. I was able to get it to read for a few days, but then someone moved it and that was it. No more reading. So I brought it to work and gave it to one of the IT guys who plugged it into a docking station, and ZIP - nothing!! At this point I tried some data recovery apps, but no luck. At this point I thought "It's fried - data's gone".
Then I called a Data Recovery guy here in town. I brought the drive over and he called back later in the day and said "I've got good news & bad news". The bad news was that the drive was encrypted. That's why I wasn't able to see anything.
The good news is that he was able to recover everyting!!! He has an NDA with WD and has a key that unlocked the drive.
So I went to Best Buy and picked up a 3TB drive (for $79.00), brought it to him, and I now have everything back. Turns out that 500GB drive is still good. Gonna reformat it and stick it in my server for dev work.
So, going forward I'm thinking of this backup plan:
[] Google Pictures is free. All the wife's pics will go there.
[] My other docs (Tax Docs, projects, business docs, misc stuff) will go on DropBox. I have a 1TB plan and for now that can suffice.
[] I will use AOMEI Backupper each night to copy new files to either backup location.
What says you? Any reason my backup plan won't work? I'm open to any other reasonably priced options.
Thanks!
If it's not broken, fix it until it is.
Everything makes sense in someone's mind.
Ya can't fix stupid.
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Kevin Marois wrote: ...a key that unlocked the drive.
How did it become locked?
"One man's wage rise is another man's price increase." - Harold Wilson
"Fireproof doesn't mean the fire will never come. It means when the fire comes that you will be able to withstand it." - Michael Simmons
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The manufaturer
If it's not broken, fix it until it is.
Everything makes sense in someone's mind.
Ya can't fix stupid.
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Kevin Marois wrote: What says you?
I say you are on the road to great things, perhaps king of the world. 
The fact that you have a backup plan (and it sounds fine to me), is a mighty step in the right direction.
I assume AOMEI Backupper is automated, or can be? If not, backup plans only work when you remember...or have time to, or don't get distracted.
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Yes, you can set it up to do automatic backups.
I'll put the external drive on my server, along with AOMEI Backupper. After that it's fire & forget
If it's not broken, fix it until it is.
Everything makes sense in someone's mind.
Ya can't fix stupid.
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Sounds like a plan man. Glad to hear it worked out. And welcome to the cloud... you are now one of us. Muwahahahahahaha! 
Jeremy Falcon
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Jeremy Falcon wrote: you are now one of us
There's no escape now 
If it's not broken, fix it until it is.
Everything makes sense in someone's mind.
Ya can't fix stupid.
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Jeremy Falcon
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Kevin Marois wrote: Then I called a Data Recovery guy here in town. I brought the drive over and he called back later in the day and said "I've got good news & bad news". The bad news was that the drive was encrypted. That's why I wasn't able to see anything.
The good news is that he was able to recover everyting!!! He has an NDA with WD and has a key that unlocked the drive.
My first thought when I read that was that I thought it sounded like scam. I figured the recovering person was attempting to get more money. Basically it should not be possible to recover if the key is lost.
But apparently WD makes is completely easy and thus completely insecure also. And apparently hardware failures make it show up.
How to decrypt a WD MyBook drive after its removed from the enclosure? - External Drives for Mac - WD Community[^]
Hopefully your buying choice wasn't based on it being secure. Of course if it was then you could become a named principal in a class action lawsuit perhaps.
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Kevin Marois wrote: So, going forward I'm thinking of this backup plan:
[] ...
[] My other docs (Tax Docs, projects, business docs, misc stuff) will go on DropBox.
There is no way in the world you would get me to put tax info in the cloud.
I'm retired. There's a nap for that...
- Harvey
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The monitor for my new work PC arrived today  .
The PC isn't scheduled to ship for another two weeks  .
Software Zen: delete this;
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Does a subatomic duck go Quark?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I'll proton you didn't post that... 
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Charming!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Only a total boson would think so.
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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If you are that mean we might just neutrino!
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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Yeah, I ought to be lepton!
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Exactly. We need to put a heavy photon you.
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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CP'ian's are flocking to the web for feather information on the subject.
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Ferengi other person, that pun would mean something else.
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You're such a Rom-antic.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Ion not, however. 
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Reading this whole thread has had its ups and downs -- which is strange.
I'm pretty sure I would not like to live in a world in which I would never be offended.
I am absolutely certain I don't want to live in a world in which you would never be offended.
Freedom doesn't mean the absence of things you don't like.
Dave
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