I did a similar thing with the old Seagates
that had marginal power supplies; not enough
current to break the stiction on a cold boot.
After unbolting the drive from the PC I didn't
have to open it. On power-up I would give the
drive a fast twist in the plane of the platter.
Once or twice would g
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Sent: Wednesday, December 19, 2007 8:25 AM
To: flexradio@flex-radio.biz
Subject: Re: [Flexradio] [OT] please backup your PC
Sometimes you can put the drive in a freezer for a while, then take it out and
it might work for few minutes. Not an urban legend, it actually wor
haffer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To:
Sent: Wednesday, December 19, 2007 08:24
Subject: Re: [Flexradio] [OT] please backup your PC
> Sometimes you can put the drive in a freezer for a while, then
> take it out and it might work for few minutes. Not an urban
> legend, it actually work
Sometimes you can put the drive in a freezer for a while, then
take it out and it might work for few minutes. Not an urban
legend, it actually worked for a friend of mine. Depends on
what's wrong with it of course.
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Quoting Bill English <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on Tue 18 Dec 2007 07:48:25 PM PST:
> Sorry to hear that Gerald,
>
> With all the options these days for backing up, there is no reason not to,
> but in my experience the majority of people don't backup. A simple 2GB usb
> drive can be had for way less tha
>> I knew better but I kept promising myself I would look into online
>> backup
>> over the holidays. I think Murphy was listening to my promise. :>(
>>
>> Take heed all, lest yours crashes too.
>>
>> 73 and Merry Christmas to all,
>> Gerald
Mike,
Keeping a backup of important files is great, but a good full backup
is great for restoring in the minium amount of time.. XP Restore is
one way, I use IBM/Lenovo's Rescue and Recovery, comes free with
their systems. It's much like Acronis, will boot when the OS won't
and you can
Yep, been there. Both with big drives at work
and home.
Outlook is not friendly for backups. That helped
me switch to Mozilla Thunderbird. Now it's a
plain folder that I can put on CD.
Rather than trying to do the whole drive for each
backup, I periodically make CDs and DVDs with my
critical f
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> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Ken N9VV
> Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2007 10:06 AM
> To: Flex-radio Reflector
> Subject: [Flexradio] [OT] please backup your PC
>
>
> Dear friends on the Flex list,
>
> this is a na
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President
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Ken N9VV
Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2007 10:06 AM
To: Flex-radio Reflector
Subject: [Flexradio] [OT] please backup your PC
Dear friends on the Flex list,
this is a nagging reminder
Ken,
That is real good advice for everyone, particularly considering the majority of
everyone on this reflector requires their computers to operate their radio!!
For those possibly looking for a method of backing up their data, I use Acronis
True Image. This software, via a bootable CDROM, w
Dear friends on the Flex list,
this is a nagging reminder to lease backup your PC on a regular basis.
--
Clean your disk of junk
(C:\Windows\system32\cleanmgr.exe)
Clean off your old Internet cache (history) in IE or your favorite
browser
Defrag your disk
On 04/07/07 05:41 pm Ken N9VV wrote:
> This is a copy of my nagging message from January 1st.
>
> Please backup your PC on a regular basis.
> --
> Clean your disk of junk
> (C:\Windows\system32\cleanmgr.exe)
>
> Defrag your disk (C:\Windows\system32\dfrg.m
Does 8 days maybe more in the water with power applied qualify for a
lost cause? My neighbors told me that water started trickling out my
front door on Saturday afternoon, I did not return from vacation
until Monday a little over 8 days later in the early AM. This year
when I go on vacation, I'
I backup important documents to a DVD, I used to back up to two other
PC's until in a 3 week period I lost all three PC's with no hope of
data recovery. One was damaged by flooding the other two were cooked
by lightning with the Hard Drives getting fried along with everything else.
Computers ar
I was lamenting just yesterday how long it would take to back up my PC.
I
do regualry back up my documents and log files to another PC on my wireless
network.
I could have backed up my PC three times in the time I have spent
trying to
install wireless networking on UBUNTU. I have
RAID is good for when your hard drive fails.
All hard drives will fail; it is not IF,
but WHEN.
Make sure your offline backups are at a
physically separate location. That is
important if something happens to your home,
like a fire, or a thief takes or destroys
your equipment.
It is also good to
One idea is to go to www.medeiamax.com (I have no affiliation with
them except as a customer). If you have broadband access, you can get
25GB of free storage with them. I have signed up for their $10 a
month service which gives you 250GB of online storage. There are some
limitations on how
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From: "Tim Ellison" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>I have to add my $0.02 worth.
FWIW I *always* buy computers with RAID 1 support (that's disk mirroring)
and always do overnight backups to an external USB disk or two. Then take
the USB disk somewhere, the gremlins may ste
f Ken N9VV
Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2007 9:33 AM
To: Flex-radio Reflector
Subject: [Flexradio] [OT] please backup your PC
Please backup your PC on a regular basis. Just this week I heard another
horror story from a buddy who lost his electronic LOG entries from 1997
to 2007. He also lost the
Please backup your PC on a regular basis. Just this week I heard another
horror story from a buddy who lost his electronic LOG entries from 1997
to 2007. He also lost the email address book that his XYL used!
There are dozens of free backup tools. Please backup your important
files. Write them t
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