I am afraid I do not really do anything fancy or complex. I just use Karen's replicator which is a great free and accessible back up program. This has to be run manually but I have a set of backup jobs set up which will provide me with a safe only backing up those files which are new or have been modified. The only important thing I cannot yet do with Karen's Replicator is set scheduled backups. I tried setting it as a task in Task Scheduler but this did not seem to work. I have to manually remember to back up therefore.
Regards David Griffith -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Donald Marang Sent: Friday, 28 August 2009 18:56 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] Unable to access external hard drive Hi David, Is your two drive backup for a backup system a mirrored drive? Does it require special software with a user interface or does it just require a driver to perform the mirror functionality. I am sure it also comes with backup / image software, but that is not my main interest right now. It is good to know that individual files and folders are accessible through Computer Management. Thanks for the tip! Don Marang ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Griffith" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, August 28, 2009 7:54 AM Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] Unable to access external hard drive > Dear Rick > > Sorry if these are obvious suggestions but I would try the first before > going to Dos. > > Sometimes drives get a little scrambled in Windows Explorer and refuse to > open when pressing enter on them. > I do not know why but using the application key to bring up the context > menu > and select explorer rather than open will sometimes work when the open > command does not. I have come across this a couple of times when heart > stoppingly I had thought I had lost access to a drive. > 2. The second suggestion is that if you can see the drive in Computer > management that you navigate to removable storage and select all tasks > from > the Actions menu. > Again try the explore command from the all task menu. Navigate down using > the cursor keys until you get to the level of a folder. Then from memory > you > have to select open to get down to the actual file listing. At this level > you will find that the application key will work on files and included in > the context menu is a delete command. I am fairly certain that there is a > copy and cut command in the application menu also so this may be a way of > getting the stuff you need off. > > Let us know how you get on. > > Best of luck > > By the way I have decided to use a 2 drive removable backup system That > is > a backup for the backup as I have had my fingers burnt by failing > external > drives. > > David Griffith > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Rick Justice > Sent: Friday, 28 August 2009 11:37 > To: blind-computing > Subject: [Blind-Computing] Unable to access external hard drive > > I have a 1tb external USB hard drive, which I cannot access the contents > or > properties of. > I was able to determine that the drive is full, by viewing it's status in > computer management. > Is there perhaps a way to access this drive using dos, to delete some > files, > > and free up some disk space > so that the drive can be accessed by Windows? > I am trying to avoid re-formatting the drive in order to preserve some of > the files on it. > > Rick Justice > > > For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: > http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ > > > For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: > http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
