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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

We're getting there...

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

Is the email for this weekend still on Bob?

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

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

Things will most certainly pick up I have a gut feeling :)

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.