Mike- does the machine have a working USB port? maybe you could plug in one of the USB "thumb" drives? mine doesn't require any drivers, Windows just "sees" it as a removable drive. then you could drag the project to the drive, off you go. (I've seen the drives up to 256MB).
just a thought, HTH -Ben > My boss machine died recently... it began doing all kinds of goofy stuff and > finally stopped booting. > > Well, I finally got it into the computer shop, where they took a good look > at it and told me the motherboard was fried. Replaced the motherboard with > something faster, upgraded to 1.5 GB DDR ram, the thing sounds like a new > machine. > > The only catch is... the bad motherboard caused the hard drive to become > 100% fragmented. I mean, the tech explained to me the entire disk defrag box > was red. He can get the machine to boot, it will very, very slowly start the > OS in safe mode, and it says it has 10 GB in 'free space'. When he tries to > run the defrag dialog, it very, very slowly starts, runs for a while, then > freezes. He feels it is a lost cause. > > I would just rebuild the box, but the drive contains a valuable side project > I am commited to demoing in September (which has me feeling like a moron for > not backing up to another media). So I cannot lose the data on the drive. > Right now, the computer cannot accept a network connection, write to a CDR > or Zip Disk, or do anything else to connect to another computer or removable > media source. > > The idea I had was to mount the drive in another machine, defragment it > there, and hopefully get the data back. The complication is that this > machine was running Win2k on an NTFS mount, and I am not sure what kinds of > issues I am going to run into trying to fix the box. Is NTFS going to yell > at me if I put the drive in another machine and try to defrag it from there? > Probably, but maybe some genius out there knows of a way... > > M > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=5 This list and all House of Fusion resources hosted by CFHosting.com. The place for dependable ColdFusion Hosting. http://www.cfhosting.com Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
