500GB 860 EVO SSD died after less than year within few hours after major Windows update,
it was last time I used Windows, since then MacOS/hackintosh all the way and no issues ever since

 

Unplug it carefully.
Put it in a very beautiful box,
Got to the backyard
Burry it
And Mark the place with a beautiful symbol
Cry over it and every year remember it with offerings.

Once done,go and buy a new one.

 

We have all been there with drives packing up. SSD's can be replaced but your creativity is always inside you, part of who you are.

Hardware and software can be replaced so take some time to mentally regroup and when your ready you can hit the floor running.

 

Sucks dude... Why do you not backup System OS drive?

 

So many words left unsaid to that SSD.... hug your SSDs tonight, everyone.

 

you learned the hard way that you have to create backups

 

The only regret I have in life (and I mean it) is having deleted my music folder when I was a teenager (so I could give space to porn... yeah, ridiculous), I had gigabytes of crappy demos and gems I composed and recorded. I was 15/16 years old. To this day I wish I haven't done that... and I'm the only one to blame.

In your case at least it wasn't your fault.

 

look at the good side, now you can organize it better with only things that you use nowdays, I bet you old drive had a lot of things from those 5 years that you no longer use

 

backups, sir. Do you have them?
If not, my condolences.
best case scenario: a new start.

 

I completely understand what you're going through as I've gone through losing the data on my computer in the past before. Back then it took me weeks to get over it and get back to rebuilding things. I also didn't have the money for a hard drive to back anything up so I was just completely screwed over, I had to restart from scratch. It was very painful.

Keep your head up, as other people have said; now is your chance to focus in on things you need and use all the knowledge you've accumulated over time to be quicker, smarter and better about everything. There is always a light at the end of the tunnel!

 

How do you back up? Do you use a software to do it? Do you just do it by hand? How can you make a clone/mirror image instead of doing it by hand? I mean that as, how can I have an exact image of my computer so if I lost something I can just take that chunk and write it to a new pc if I lost something again.

Sorry if I stated my question confusing, I might not know how to ask it correctly.

 

It happens.Windows isn't especially nice to SSDs, newer versions are better than older ones, but there is a lot of legacy behavior that needs to be reworked, until then it is what it is.

No reason for it to happens at any time, entropy always wins eventually.

There is nothing anyone can do about it but be prepared for the day a machine or an other human fails.

All things physical in our cosmos will eventually come to an end and some things might or might not have new beginnings. This is just the way of things.

 

You need a software for a full backup of the hard disk C./ .
Example: www.oo-software.com/en/diskimage-backup-your-data
You need the same space as the size of your hard disk C:/ on another hard disk.

What's the best way to backup/clone a PC ?
https://audiosex.pro/threads/whats-the-best-way-to-backup-clone-a-pc.62171/

 

Thanks for the reply and providing a link to that thread. I remmember reading some of it when I was lurking but now I've saved it. That oo-software looks very profesional and promising so I will probably just buy that. It looks like it clones images.

Have you used it? Does it faithfully just rip an image of your hard drive and lets you return to everything as it was on your previous PC? I've never cloned a drive before. I've only backed things up manually by hand so I want to see if backing up this way is better. By hand is slow and I still need to reinstall software which takes forever for VST plugins.

 

I have been using " O&O DiskImage Professionales " for years. If you have installed the programme - you create an emergency disc, i.e. a rescue CD, should your PC no longer start or the screen is frozen or you have other trojan viruses, loss of the hard disk, you can restore your entire hard disk C./ exactly with this rescue CD. In other words, a 1 to 1 copy.

Imagine you are sitting in front of your PC, the screen is frozen, a message says pay some Bitcoins and you will get a code to unlock your PC. First you will think why didn't I make a backup, you can spend weeks reinstalling everything.Then you boot your PC - put in the rescue disc - and restore your system.

 

Are you able to take a snapshot of your pc and all of it's installed programs, plugins & samples on your pc in it's "snapshot" state, then move that chunk over to another pc without having to re-install everything?

Basically I want to continue working as I was on my old pc and bring the next chapter onto a new PC without having to re-do everything from square one. I realize that's how some pro's do it, although I've always just updated things by dragging files onto my external drive manually. I always felt more safe and comfortable doing that since I've never cloned a drive before. I will grab that O&O disk image program though. It looks easy to use while doing complex tasks at the same time.

 

There are usually programmes for hard disk cloning from the manufacturer who sells the hard disks. For example, if you buy an SSD from Crucial, they have a downloadable tool on their website where you can copy your old hard drive 1 to 1 to the new one. So buy a new hard drive, install it in your current PC and use this programme: www.acronis.com/en-sg/promotion/CrucialHD-download/.

 

Thanks for the idea! I had no real idea how people got this type of backup accomplished. I will have to do exactly when things get more serious in the future.

Right now I have program files and such backed up on a general drive with samples and stuff on it but it clearly looks like I should have a dedicated driver to back up C drive. I will buy one to insert into my PC like someone else said in my thread.

I was watching either Hans Zimmer or Junkie XL on YouTube a while back and one of them said that if you don't have your files backed up in three different places then the files basically don't exist because when bad things happen, they always happen at the worst times causing disasters. Or something along these lines which made me gulp very hard in nervous anticipation because I knew exactly what they were talking about having gone through it before.

 

There is a free programme called "CrystalDiskInfo" https://crystalmark.info/en/software/crystaldiskinfo/ that shows you how warm your hard drives are, how long they have been running and what errors occur, so you always have a chance to buy a new hard drive in time and back up the old hard drive to the new one.

Important things should be burned on BluRay, this data carrier lasts the longest, burn CD, burn DVD', USB stick and on a second hard disk and then maybe on a cost server like https://mega.io/start there you get encrypted data and 20 GB free.

I wish you much success in backing up your data, it's a lot of work, but if it comes to the Super GAU, you are prepared, hacker attacks, power failure, or blackout, solar storm are other parameters in our world.