I have been running Climate Predication for several months (along with Seti@home and, to a lesser extent, Rossetta and World Communtity Grid). I had completed nearly 70% of Climate Prediction and was on target to finish in mid-April.

Last week my hard drive failed. Early signs are that the drive has suffered a mechanical failure and efforts to retrieve any data from it have, so far, been unsuccessful.

When I instal a new hard drive I would like to be able to carry on from where I left off but have no idea how to go about this.

Do I have to start over from the beginning of a new work unit with a new ID etc? If I am able to retrieve anything from the failed drive (which looks unlikely), what should I look for and what should I do with it? Any advice would be welcome. (Finally, will the same answers also apply to Seti, Rossetta and World Community Grid?).

Any thoughts/suggestions/guidance will be appreciated.

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Sorry to hear of your problems Chris. I\'m afraid that unless you have a backup of the entire BOINC folder on some other disk, you won\'t be able to recover that work unit. If there is some way to get files off the failed disk, you should try to recover the BOINC folder. Usually it\'s under c:\\program files\\boinc, unless you installed it to somewhere other than the default folder.

Most of us would be in the same boat as you with a hard drive failure. Even if we back the boinc folder up, it\'s often on the same hard drive.

Good luck on trying to recover things from the failed disk. Even if you are not able to, know that what you completed of the work unit will be available for the researchers to look at.

Good luck on your next one.

And if you can\'t get the data back and have to start afresh, then using the same e-mail address and password when re-attaching will ensure that BOINC knows it\'s you ...

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Last week my hard drive failed. Early signs are that the drive has suffered a mechanical failure and efforts to retrieve any data from it have, so far, been unsuccessful. ....

If you haven\'t tried Spinrite yet, I recommend that you obtain a copy from the Gibson Research Corp. (grc.com). They have a lot of satisfied customers whose failed drives have been restored, allowing them to at least copy the essential data files over to a new hard drive, to CD-ROM backup, etc. I run Spinrite for maintenance purposes about every 3 or 4 months, although the run takes over 13 hours for a 60 GB drive.

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Thanks for this advice. Wasn\'t able to get anything off my old drive. Will backup to a separate drive in future. Started again on Climate Predication - on schedule to finish January 2009.

Sorry to hear of your problems Chris. I\'m afraid that unless you have a backup of the entire BOINC folder on some other disk, you won\'t be able to recover that work unit. If there is some way to get files off the failed disk, you should try to recover the BOINC folder. Usually it\'s under c:\\program files\\boinc, unless you installed it to somewhere other than the default folder.

Most of us would be in the same boat as you with a hard drive failure. Even if we back the boinc folder up, it\'s often on the same hard drive.

Good luck on trying to recover things from the failed disk. Even if you are not able to, know that what you completed of the work unit will be available for the researchers to look at.

Good luck on your next one.

Thanks. Now done this.

And if you can\'t get the data back and have to start afresh, then using the same e-mail address and password when re-attaching will ensure that BOINC knows it\'s you ...

Thanks. Sadly read your post after I had returned the drive (still under warranty). I\'ll look into this for the future.

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Last week my hard drive failed. Early signs are that the drive has suffered a mechanical failure and efforts to retrieve any data from it have, so far, been unsuccessful. ....

If you haven\'t tried Spinrite yet, I recommend that you obtain a copy from the Gibson Research Corp. (grc.com). They have a lot of satisfied customers whose failed drives have been restored, allowing them to at least copy the essential data files over to a new hard drive, to CD-ROM backup, etc. I run Spinrite for maintenance purposes about every 3 or 4 months, although the run takes over 13 hours for a 60 GB drive.

Hi, everyone. One simple way to make a backup that will survive a hard drive failure is to backup to a removable flash drive. A 1GB flash drive will the WU nicely and is not very expensive.

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Or an external hard drive. The price of these has come down considerably. You can back up the entire contents of the disks of more than one computer onto one of these and still have space for extra BOINC folder backups.

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