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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! |
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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. |
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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!!! |
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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. |
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COMSUBBBS
Posts: 3671
Location: Kansas City Missouri | Subject: RE: Dead Hard Drive
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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??? |
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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. |
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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. |
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