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Default Lost all my recipes

kilikini wrote:
> Christine Dabney wrote:
>> On Sat, 28 Jun 2008 14:01:35 -0500, Janet Wilder
>> > wrote:
>>
>>
>>> I'm so sorry. If it helps, when my hard drive died 2 years ago, the
>>> Geeks at Best Buy were a lot cheaper than other places to retrieve
>>> stuff. They managed to get most of my pictures, files and recipes. It
>>> did take quite a few hours.

>> Thanks. I might take it there, to see what I can retrieve
>>
>>> I use MasterCook 7 and I do a backup of recipes and the files I save
>>> from Usenet and other places every week onto a separate hard drive.
>>> Then every couple of months I burn those files to a CD.

>> Speaking of Mastercook...does anyone know what version will work with
>> Vista?
>>
>> I am NOT happy that I have Vista here....LOL
>>
>>> I don't know what I'd do if I lost my recipes. Probably Google a
>>> margarita recipe and drink a lot. <g>

>> I hit up the wine last night...LOL
>>
>> Christine

>
> I always back up my recipes to a separate hard drive and also every 3 months
> or so burn them to CD. I keep copies of everything.
>
> There are only 2 kinds of hard drives; one that has crashed and one that
> hasn't crashed, yet.
>
> kili
>
>


For storing recipes you should use RAID 5 drives