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This was the back up :P

I put it in while I was swapping cases cuz I wanted to be lazy and not have to take it apart a few hundred times. I do this all the time. I just happened to screw up this time.

Atleast I've learned something, how to recover the data. The tools are dirt simple lol...

but I remember recovering data a few times after deleted partitions, you just recreate the partition exactly how it was, and voilla, everything is back. That wouldn't work in my case though... besides, Windows could read 66% of the drives data, but said there was 7 gigs free. So it knew there was an almost full drive, but it didn't know where 60 gigs had gone. And that's where the recovery application comes in.

At anyrate, I'll probably do it all the same again, though next time just leave the Molex connector off the backup drive until it's needed.

Also, it's hard to make a backup image of a few hundred GB. To do that in my server would be asking for death... it's got 1.3 TB in it now. None of my data, well a small portion it "mission critical" and that gets backed up onto DVDs. The rest isn't mission critical, but I still hate losing it. I can't possibly back up everything, unless I go out, buy a ton of drives, and RAID5 everything (stripping with redundancy I believe). Then I don't need to back up so much, but if one drive fails in the RAID, I dont' lose anything. If two fail, well then somethings seriously wrong that two would fail at the same time. But yeah, then I'd be screwed.