"Hildur K." <hil### [at] 3dcafemailevery1net> wrote in message 
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> The problem now is, when booting up on such an non OS specific software, 
> to my

> cheap
> programs would still probably do the trick. So, unless you want to pay 
> somebody
> a lot of money to recover your data, using USB drives (small sticks or 
> bigger
> drives) for backups may not be a great idea.

  Wow, thanks for the heads-up Hildur. I've just bought a USB 500Gig 
external hard drive, and I'm trying to save every important doc/file to it.

    After what you've said though, I guess it's best to unplug it as soon as 
I can, and just put it in some dark corner somewhere. ;)


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> photo
> card reader more than once made the stick unreadable and then the system 
> told me
> it was unformatted and I lost every single photo! By merely inserting the 
> stick
> everything was gone. There was nothing I could do about it. Very annoying!

    Gah, I feel for you!

     (Hope you are well).


       ~Steve~



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