Last year I got an external hard drive and re-imported all my optical media since 2002. There wasn't a single bad one. One precaution I learned early was to not assemble a compilation by drag and drop in the OS GUI, but to use the optical drive's GUI and create a disk that "can be read on any computer". Apparently, different brand recorders use different proprietary formats for disks created by drag and drop, and disks can only be read by the drive (or brand of drive)that recorded them. Or you need to install a reader for the old disk format on your new system.
So now I have everything on 2 discs made at different times (all still good), and on an external HD. I have another external HD in the box waiting to go into service. I'll think I'll make it a part time resident on my system, and leave it disconnected except during backups. Regards, Anthony > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > Evan Hanson > Sent: Thursday, 12 February 2009 9:29 AM > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List > Subject: That's it I'm Done with Digital (for now) > > So last night the hard drive on my 2.5 year old mac died. Don't even > get me started on the fact that Apple knew the seagate drive used on my > mac was prone to failures. My last backup was on Jan 30. So I dig out > the CD's and guess what. 2 out of 10 of the CD's have failed. I was so > angry I was on the verge of cursing. > > As if to taunt me my boxes of negatives were stored right next to the > CD's. I pulled out a box and looked at a sleeve, a softball game from > 1982. Still looking good despite spending almost 30 years in a dark closet. > > So I think I'm going to take a break from digital for a while and shoot > only film. I know the data loss can happen in any medium but after two > devastating losses in the past 4 years I need to get back to simpler times. > > Evan > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
