Free PC Help Forum is Back

[AWS]

Free PC Help Forum is back. Well the name is anyway. I had several computer related sites and last year I imported them all into one database. I opened up Tech Help Forum with that data. Feeling nostalgic this weekend while celebrating the 4TH of July Holiday I decided to bring back Free PC Help Forum. The domain was not being used so I changed the name and re-activated the domain.

Welcome to the rebirth of Free PC Help Forum.

 

[AWS]

Just to update this. I was also able to import a good portion of the data from the original Free PC Help Forum.

There was a catastrophic crash of the database server when 2 drives in the array died at the same time. Rebuilding the array after replacing the drives fragmented the data so I had to reboot the site as new with zero member and posts.

I always kept the bad drives, I don't throw anything away, with the idea of one day attempting to get the data off the drive. I was successfully able to get a good portion of the data back. At the time of the crash the site had 1.5+ million posts and 62 thousand members. While i didn't get all the data back I did get about 200K posts out of the dump I created. Members were a different story. Most of that data was too fragmented to retrieve. I did manage to get a few thousand however.

At some point in time maybe I will be able to get all the data of the drives. For now I can live with the little I was able to get back.

 

[Rich-M]

Well this is new to me and I look forward to participating with you, its become a habit.
It is so unreal to have 2 drives go down at once in an array, that must have been a real shocker
and great job retrieving anything frankly.

 

[AWS]

The sites that we

Well this is new to me and I look forward to participating with you, its become a habit.
It is so unreal to have 2 drives go down at once in an array, that must have been a real shocker
and great job retrieving anything frankly.

But it took me 9 years to salvage what I did salvage. It wouldn't have been possible if I hadn't met a guy that specializes in data recovery at a convention I attended.

 

[Intrepid]

I know you had talked about opening the site again. I always knew you were holding on to the domain for a reason. When you told me you did I thought is was a good idea. I see some new faces, but, haven't seen the regulars from before on yet.

I'll help out when I can. And not by posting only security bulletins like last time.

 

[allheart55 (Cindy E)]

That sounds great! I'm glad you're here.

 

[Rich-M]

You have to crawl before you walk and this is us crawling but it won't last for long!!!! Welcome back.

 

[allheart55 (Cindy E)]

We're getting there...

 

[AWS]

Things will pick up. The online visitors is growing and it will not be long before they start to join and post.

 

[Rich-M]

Is the email for this weekend still on Bob?

 

[AWS]

Yes it is. After I get the forums added the email goes out.

 

[Rich-M]

Ok great. I will have a few to send to some of my faithful also.

 

[IceMan37]

Things will most certainly pick up I have a gut feeling

 

[donetao]

WoW That's quite a story @AWS Thanks for sharing. I guess I can still reply. I hope everyone on Free PC Help Forum reads this.