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Plankowner Posts: 9165 Location: Upper lefthand corner of the map. | Subject: Dead Hard Drive Apparently my hard drive on my main computer died this morning. Working off my laptop now. I have the 'puker in the shop for a hard drive recovery (if that is possible, yet to be known). I had just about completed another very interesting update and now, if the recovery isn't possible, I'll have to try and recreate it. Keep your fingers crossed! | ||
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COMSUBBBS Posts: 3671 Location: Kansas City Missouri | Subject: RE: Dead Hard Drive Hope you can recover your files, was it made in France? | ||
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Admin Posts: 2297 Location: Renton, WA | Subject: RE: Dead Hard Drive Those Linux machines sure eat up hard drives! | ||
Ric |
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Plankowner Posts: 9165 Location: Upper lefthand corner of the map. | Subject: RE: Dead Hard Drive Just like the pile of dead hard drives from Windows machines I saw while at the shop. Learned that after 3 years 30% of hard drive are probably going to fail. Actually I got a call from the shop yesterday afternoon. Hard Drive is fine!!! No data lost. (Gotta start backing up more often.) Mother board had the memory blow up. Part of the issue is the whole old Dell 521 I'm using is just wearing out. Get the machine back today sometime. | ||
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COMSUBBBS Posts: 2672 Location: New Jersey | Subject: RE: Dead Hard Drive okay Ric. Time to spend some of your communion money and buy a new machine...Geezze, how long do you think they can run for with only one gerbil. | ||
Ric |
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Plankowner Posts: 9165 Location: Upper lefthand corner of the map. | Subject: RE: Dead Hard Drive I don't know,. Ask Don!!! | ||
Ric |
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Plankowner Posts: 9165 Location: Upper lefthand corner of the map. | Subject: 'puker is back The beast is home with all new motherboard memory. Hard drive is intact and all data safe. | ||
GaryKC |
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COMSUBBBS Posts: 3671 Location: Kansas City Missouri | Subject: RE: Dead Hard Drive | ||
Don Gentry |
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Admin Posts: 2297 Location: Renton, WA | Subject: RE: Dead Hard Drive My PC is at least a dozen years old. 500 gig back up (USB) drive is 9ish years old. All OEM drives still. Did I mention I had a back up drive??? | ||
Tom Conlon |
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Old Salt Posts: 264 Location: Harrison, NJ | Subject: RE: Dead Hard Drive 1 external HD connected via USB; Subscription to Carbonite; 2 portable HD's for manual backup & offline storage. Yep, I'm paranoid about my data. We TMs are smart about things like that. | ||
Ric |
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Plankowner Posts: 9165 Location: Upper lefthand corner of the map. | Subject: RE: Dead Hard Drive I have an external drive that I back up to periodically. Fortunately the HD was OK it was the condensers for the Motherboard memory that was bad. They replaced 9 of them to be safe. 'puker works like a champ how. | ||
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Master and Commander Posts: 1269 Location: Hopewell Junction NY | Subject: RE: Dead Hard Drive I haven't heard 'capacitors' called 'condensers' that in eons. Are you sure they didn't change points in your distributor? | ||
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Plankowner Posts: 9165 Location: Upper lefthand corner of the map. | Subject: RE: Dead Hard Drive You are right. I used the wrong word. You know those wonky things that do electrical stuff... ;; These thingys: | ||
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Old Salt Posts: 264 Location: Harrison, NJ | Subject: RE: Dead Hard Drive We TMs call them "capacitors," or "caps" for short. I even called them that when I taught Electronics 101. [snark, snark] :) Edited by Tom Conlon 2018-03-31 3:30 PM | ||
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Master and Commander Posts: 1269 Location: Hopewell Junction NY | Subject: RE: Dead Hard Drive Ric - 2018-03-31 12:53 PMYou are right. I used the wrong word. You know those wonky things that do electrical stuff... These thingys: They will certainly raise havoc when they fail. | ||