Recovering a Broken Hard Drive

[Ghoulish Delight]

Originally Posted by BarTopDancer

The company won't do it, they said too bad.



I've been trying to encourage people do back up to their "P"ersonal drive. But they don't get it, or why (despite explaining that hard drives aren't indestructible). Then I asked about mapping the My Documents folder (where everyone stores their stuff) to the "P"ersonal drive and my co-worker said people wouldn't understand it so they aren't going to do it.

You can suggest a solution that synchs their My Documents folder with the network drive. That way things are both saved to the network AND available offline.

[BarTopDancer]

Originally Posted by Ghoulish Delight

You can suggest a solution that synchs their My Documents folder with the network drive. That way things are both saved to the network AND available offline.

That's what I suggested.

[Moonliner]

Originally Posted by BarTopDancer

That's what I suggested.

Was this "His" or "His Company" hard drive?

If it's his personal stuff, I can see the reluctance to back it all up to the company LAN.

If it's a company laptop why does get get a choice? It's company data and it needs to be protected.

[BarTopDancer]

Originally Posted by Moonliner

Was this "His" or "His Company" hard drive?

If it's his personal stuff, I can see the reluctance to back it all up to the company LAN.

If it's a company laptop why does get get a choice? It's company data and it needs to be protected.

It's a company laptop hard drive. In general they don't force people to back up to the network. I may broach the subject again after I've been here longer.