You must have faced a situation when a virus hits your system and corrupts your system's C-Drive.Now,you want to format the whole system but before that you want to back up your data in other drives. Another situation that you face is when you want to transfer a lot of data from one system to another. Now in such situations the usual way outs are like taking out my hard disk and putting it in some other system via a port which otherwise is used for devices like CD-ROM or else I better put my disk in a USB-casing and plug it into some other system like some external storage device and some other such rescue operations are also popular.But most of them need your hard disk to be taken out of your system,right? And transferring data between two working systems via LAN takes lot of time and is of no use when your OS is corrupted!
Thats what bothers me. Why do we need to take out our hard disk every time. Won't it be more comfortable if we had a 'Dedicated' port say FireWire type port (or some more popular port like USB but I ll want some more data transfer speed) in-built with the cabinet of the system and we could directly plug a cable into it and put the other end of it in the other system and the whole disk acts as some 'Pen Drive' for the other system! And this port will work irrespective of the fact that whether your OS is working or not and all it needs is that your other system is working fine and reads the file system present in your disk! If we could use this medium even while we were working on our system. And how wonderful if the other system's disk becomes a sort of 'PenDrive' for our system!! Don't you think such a protocol will make things very simple at times.
For some security issues I think it can have a provision of setting the other system's access to the various drives(the kind that we usually have for file sharing protocols),but that restriction is active only till my system is running.Once my system is off all the parts should be accessible(this is utmost required specially when our system crashes!)And ya we need to have a power supply via that cable and need to work on synchronizing the GND and Vcc of the two systems and thats a critical issue I suppose.But for sure it ll make things very easy at times!
So,just hoping that we have such dedicated ports in our cabinets soon.
PS : The title reads '..about to Loose Data', its actually because I have been 'hit' by a virus yesterday!!And wanted to back-up data 'comfortably'.
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There are better ways. Use a live CD to transfer the contents from the harddisk to the removable media. The virus won't be able to do anything with it. And you can even format and partition the disk with the distro. Some distros are made for system recovery only.
Regards,
Dragon
Hit by a virus. I think I know why. Man, use knoppix (perhaps even virtualised, but I don't know whether it would be as safe as booting off the CD) while surfing the untrusted sites on the net. Read the tutorial on my blog. You won't get any viruses that way.
Well I wasn't sure that its some 'untrusted' site! waise the issue here isn't about recovery-thing only, rather its for fast data transfer also(normally external drive will use USB 2.0) and what if i need to transfer data between two systems,again with present ways its not going to be that fast...The idea is to have a dedicated port for accessing disk and there can be a no. of ways (other than the two specified here) where it'll be helpful i guess..
Aha..Hello.. Good to see NSITians posting about technology :)
there are such dedicated ports. Actually its like a port that allows you to plug in Hard Disks, in just the way you thought of.
Moreover about your last post, I am not sure but I think most Cellular Communication is based on the shortest distance concept only. I remember studying something like that in our Analog and Digital Communication course.
I gave more thought to what you said, and what struck me was to somehow maintain the coordinates of each user. Each transmitting station maintains this list of all users which are on that particular tower. All this info is also routed to the base multiplexing station.
So as soon as some transmitting station receives a request it knows whether the user is in its zone, and it does not need to forward the call to the base station. Otherwise the call is forwarded to the Base, which based upon the user coordinates finds the correct transmitting station. Quite abstract and very naive idea as of now.
I hope I am making sense.
Keep it up!
Hemant
IT Third Semester
Correction I meant Fifth semester :P
Oh..really! Such ports exist!?
And it works despite the fact that whether any of the two systems is on-or-off??
Yaar,please do tell something more about that port(at least should have told what is it called!).
And as of my last post...I was actually thinking of transferring data via cellphones itself(specially at times say, when two guys sitting together are forwarding some data like just a msg!) and not bothering any tower-thing(at least in above mentioned eg).And ya i got your point that some sort of interaction will definitely be needed between cell and tower, at least for knowing the co-ordinates!
So,lets just hope that some day some such protocol will come in picture.
i think such ports exist too... but i think they need both systems to hav an active os running and turned on... cuz the os is the handler of all the hdds... and since the hdd has movable parts... its necessary to power it... so if u wish that u wanna transfer data while keeping the other pc off... u gotta get the port directly connected to ur hardrive, and sum changes too so that it disables the power and data connection from motherboard and enables the port one... this requires changes to both the hdd and the hdd handling circuitry on the motherboard... which is not yet seen in current generation home pcs
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