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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Keith Robinson" data-source="post: 4787375" data-attributes="member: 21330">I had a double hard drive crash several years ago and I never fully recovered from it, not even to this day.  I still find myself looking for files that don't exist anymore.  I used to have two internal drives, one which was the primary drive and the second which was for backups - and for some reason both drives got fried at the same time, obliterating huge amounts of data, including several large and detailed maps of The Kyngdoms that I'd been planning to add, plus files and lots of other data.  Several months later it occured again - wiping out two more new hard drives.  It turned out there was a fault with the motherboard.Nowadays I have have a seperate external hard drive which is solely for backups and which is disconnected when not in use.  I also have a new computer <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/ponder.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":hmm:" title="Hmmm    :hmm:" data-shortname=":hmm:" />The ability to redownload my pdfs from RPGNow was a godsend, otherwise I'd have lost maybe hundreds of files, making it even more of a miserable time.The whole thing was an extremely painful experience, so you have my sympathies.</blockquote>