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Post by terrilee on Feb 28, 2013 11:03:13 GMT -5
hey thanks for reading.
if i take the battery out of my laptop, for next 2 yrs
will i lose all my stuff.?
OR will it all be there when i put the battery back in and charge it all back up?  
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Post by tech4 on Feb 28, 2013 11:13:27 GMT -5
It will all be there.
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Post by terrilee on Feb 28, 2013 11:19:14 GMT -5
thanks
and HI & WELCOME to the new site
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Post by scooterelements on Feb 28, 2013 11:56:53 GMT -5
yup it will be there. All your stuff is stored on the hard drive. Always a smart thing to do is buy an external hard drive and do a back up
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Post by justbuggin2 on Feb 28, 2013 12:41:14 GMT -5
ditto to the above and yes take the battery out if left in the contacts can get corroided and damage the laptop
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Post by wutzthedeal on Feb 28, 2013 19:30:53 GMT -5
You may also want to consider remote backups. It's a smart way to guarantee data survival (fire, flood, etc. would destroy possibly all of the hard drives in your house, external and internal...). There is a battery on the motherboard that is a watch battery that keeps cmos settings; if that dies, it can give you a headache but your data on the hard drive will still be fully intact.
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Post by SylvreKat on Feb 28, 2013 20:42:09 GMT -5
Agree that you should get an external backup. At least an external hard drive. Or one of those online storage sites. I think some are free, some are pretty cheap, some are probably pretty costly.
As my guru said, "All hard drives fail. And the failure rate of a hard drive is 100%." It's just a question of when will yours die, and will you have backed up your stuff so it's safe, or not. Esp things like photos. Always always do some sort of back up. Even burn cds and keep them at work or send them to an out-of-state friend/family.
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Post by daniel on Mar 1, 2013 14:14:03 GMT -5
Agree that you should get an external backup. At least an external hard drive. Or one of those online storage sites. I think some are free, some are pretty cheap, some are probably pretty costly. As my guru said, "All hard drives fail. And the failure rate of a hard drive is 100%." It's just a question of when will yours die, and will you have backed up your stuff so it's safe, or not. Esp things like photos. Always always do some sort of back up. Even burn cds and keep them at work or send them to an out-of-state friend/family. >'Kat It's true, mechanical stuff breaks at some point. If the files are important always back up, it is so easy to do now. Throw it on dropbox or one of the many online services, you'll be happy you did when you need the files. |
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Post by CopperDeer on Mar 1, 2013 19:02:05 GMT -5
Remotely possible you have a Solid State Drive, in which case after a fairly extreme amount of time without power (5-10 years???) it would lose data. Many new machines use SSD b/c they are faster and safer, especially smaller ones like netbooks where power consumption is a concern. But generally 98% of computer's use a conventional disk and platter, at least for document storage, if not entirely.
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Post by prodigit on Mar 4, 2013 17:07:21 GMT -5
actually, try to defrag the drive at least once every 6 months. If it's impossible, then at least once a year do it.
Your data loss might not be due to lack of power, but due to harddrive not retaining everything.
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Post by wutzthedeal on Mar 4, 2013 18:21:46 GMT -5
actually, try to defrag the drive at least once every 6 months. If it's impossible, then at least once a year do it. Your data loss might not be due to lack of power, but due to hard drive not retaining everything. To clarify, defragging has nothing to do with data loss or retention, and I'm seriously doubting she has an SS device that could lose data due to lack of power--SS devices actually last longer than a standard SATA type device for retaining data. The general consensus is that you have a good 8 or 10 years of safe storage (more with an SS device) with no worries, and that limit only applies because of drive warranties and suspected failure rates, which is sort of bogus because a stored drive, not in use, and kept clean and dry, could theoretically last a couple centuries before a natural type of demagnetization occurs or other interference that could disrupt data.. |
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Post by prodigit on Mar 4, 2013 18:24:06 GMT -5
sorry, SSD's don't need defragging. I didn't read the whole thread.
SSD's supposed to keep data for many years. I have a USB stick from 2002 (128Mb; over 10 years old) and it still has some of the original data on it!
SSD and USB memory sticks, are the same technology.
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Post by terrilee on Mar 4, 2013 18:25:07 GMT -5
@ wutz ok heres the deal
im as stupid on computers as i am on scoots
never was taught anything, just all trial and error.
this is a dell laptop
so you saying as long as i take the battery out. it will 99% of the time, i wont loose anything, correct?
at least thats what i think your saying? lol
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Post by millsc on Mar 4, 2013 18:27:45 GMT -5
The only way you'll lose your stuff is if the hard drive fails
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Post by alleyoop on Mar 4, 2013 18:31:23 GMT -5
Yes just take the battery out and wrap the laptop to keep dust and spiders from building webs on it   Alleyoop |
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