Friday, December 14, 2001, 2:03:17 PM, you wrote: > Hi Joe, > On 15 Dec 2001 at 15:22:16 [GMT -0800], you wrote:
LG>>> Copy the relevant one(s) to a secure place on your new drive (Just > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ As long as I'm still around, Lars, I don't think there's such a thing as a secure place on my hard drive(s). LG>>> needed for the importing). Then open up the address book, and use LG>>> the menu "File -> Import from -> The Bat! Address Aook". Point it LG>>> to the file(s) you just saved. JF>> I didn't need to "save" anything, etc. Are you talking about JF>> something else I need to do here? > I thought that your harddisk was really in a bad state, That's what they told me. > so I advised you > to copy your old files to a place on one of the newer drives. I know from > my own experience with defective harddisks (a headcrash, for example) > that you can recover most of the data. It wasn't a hard head crash. I could only boot into Safe Mode, but it still booted. > But usually I try to avoid the risk of data loss brought by multiple > accesses as they can *really* ruin the data on the drive. So I only > copy all I can get over to a new drive and start sorting and > reimporting the data from there. That's my goal. To scavenge all the data I can, and then get the hell out of Dodge as fast as I can (and then reformat the entire drive). While being velly, velly careful all the while... -- Joe Finocchiaro mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ________________________________________________________ Archives : http://tbudl.thebat.dutaint.com Moderators : mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] TBTech List: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Vers: 1.53d FAQ : http://faq.thebat.dutaint.com
