On Sep 30, 7:32*pm, "Flying Pig" wrote:
September Surprises...


bla bla bal same **** as usual above.........

My computer, which is my lifeline, my navigation backup (among others), my
database, resource storage for all things boating and personal information,
and too many other things to enumerate, started flaking on me.

Been there, done that, I enlisted the help of some geek friends. *Attempting
to keep the geek language to a minimum, I'll say only that my vendor agreed
with his hypothesis. Accordingly, a new hard drive is on the way to some
friends who will be visiting us in the Bahamas.

In the meantime, however, I went through the several stages all geeks have
come to visit at one time or another, leading to constant blue screens of
death, known as BSODs among those willing to dive into resolution.
Eventually, all my rescusitative efforts with MS XP disk, utility disks, and
others, failed, with the computer failing to recognize the drive. *Worse,
digging out a spare drive, formatting it, loading my backup program and
Windoze XP on a fresh disk, and attempting to restore to that disk, using
the several backup and incremental backups I'd made, failed. Apparently the
files were corrupted, somehow. *YIKES!

However, letting the computer sit overnight and attempting to start it again
showed that the failed drive was again visible, though not able to start
Windows. *Again leaving off the geek explanation, that's consistent with my
friend's hypothesis.

Encouraged, I dig out my trusty external connection device after I've
swapped drives, with the newly formatted, XP- and backup program-loaded
bringing up the screen in the usual fashion, and, when I activate my
external tool on the original drive, indeed, it's visible.

So, quickly, I move copies of my critical data and all the
program-initiating files from it to my backup drive, and commence the
terribly tedious task of starting over on a new hard drive. *I'll have to do
that again, when the new, cooler-running, and less power-hungry drive
arrives, but, for now, all is well, with the programs reinstalled running
well. *(I like this kind of) Surprise!



Skip,

Instead of spending your day in paradise with such things jsut buy two
CF 29 tough books @ $4oo/each. When one goes belly up swap it out,
open the hard drive door and send it to Panasonic for another. New one
comes in open o-ring flip door and slip hard drive in. now you have 2
computers working again CF 29 have o-ring flip door removable HDs.

Total time...... 10 min


Why are havnt you learned how to make your life more stress less.
Unless you use all your geeking as a way to fill an other wise empty
life.
Bob