In case anyone is wondering, I'm still alive. However, there was a death in my...
computer.
For those who are worried about getting your time back, it's just boring stuff from here down.
I run 3 hard drives. 2 are carbon copies of my old '98SE system (who's mobo died), the 3rd is the drive that came with this XP clunker. I also back up important stuff from the XP drive (C
to the other two.
One of the backup drives died a while back, and I failed to replace it in a timely fashion. Last week, the remaining backup drive started softly cooing like a dove. It literally sounded like "coo...coo...coo..."
And when I tried to access it, my file explorer locked up. So I shut things down, removed it and installed two new (more/less new, they were pulls from unsold computers) Seagate drives.
After getting everything set up (primary/extended partitions, drives, formatting), I disconnected the primary backup and re-connected the "cooing" drive in it's place, leaning at sort of a 30 degree angle or so.
It mounted right up, and I started copying files. By being careful and not running it very long at at time, I finally got all the data I wanted off it. Then I re-installed the new primary backup and copied everything to it.
Some of the data & apps/games/utilities are from the '90s, and I was pretty happy to rescue them.
computer.
For those who are worried about getting your time back, it's just boring stuff from here down.
I run 3 hard drives. 2 are carbon copies of my old '98SE system (who's mobo died), the 3rd is the drive that came with this XP clunker. I also back up important stuff from the XP drive (C
to the other two.One of the backup drives died a while back, and I failed to replace it in a timely fashion. Last week, the remaining backup drive started softly cooing like a dove. It literally sounded like "coo...coo...coo..."
And when I tried to access it, my file explorer locked up. So I shut things down, removed it and installed two new (more/less new, they were pulls from unsold computers) Seagate drives.
After getting everything set up (primary/extended partitions, drives, formatting), I disconnected the primary backup and re-connected the "cooing" drive in it's place, leaning at sort of a 30 degree angle or so.
It mounted right up, and I started copying files. By being careful and not running it very long at at time, I finally got all the data I wanted off it. Then I re-installed the new primary backup and copied everything to it.
Some of the data & apps/games/utilities are from the '90s, and I was pretty happy to rescue them.
