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"Hildur K." <hil### [at] 3dcafemail every1net> 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. ;)
>
> 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~
>
> Hildur
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On Sat, 30 Aug 2008 23:07:12 +0100, "St." <dot### [at] dotcom> wrote:
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> 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. ;)
You can store it with me Steve ;)
I think we're talking about a ram drive here not a HD.
I've had problems removing ram drive from Windows 2000 where you have to stop
the drive but not with XP or Vista.
--
Regards
Stephen
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"Stephen" <mcavoysAT@aolDOTcom> wrote in message
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> On Sat, 30 Aug 2008 23:07:12 +0100, "St." <dot### [at] dotcom> wrote:
>
>>
>> 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. ;)
>
> You can store it with me Steve ;)
LOL! I'm sure it would be safe. Thanks mate, prepare for a 50Gig
download!
Hehe... :)
> I think we're talking about a ram drive here not a HD.
Oh, I was going by what Hildur said about "small sticks or *bigger
drives*"
> I've had problems removing ram drive from Windows 2000 where you have to
> stop
> the drive but not with XP or Vista.
In my early days, I heard so much 'bad' as regard to win 2000 that I
just had to go with win 98. (Like everyone else that wanted a 'computer'
back then).
~Steve~
> --
>
> Regards
> Stephen
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St. wrote:
>
> 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. ;)
>
Having offline -backups is *always* a good idea. Imagine having your
only backup-drive connected and mounted and getting a virus that erases
or compromises every drive on the computer.
>
> ~Steve~
>
--
Eero "Aero" Ahonen
http://www.zbxt.net
aer### [at] removethiszbxtnetinvalid
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On Sat, 30 Aug 2008 23:41:32 +0100, "St." <dot### [at] dotcom> wrote:
>> You can store it with me Steve ;)
>
> LOL! I'm sure it would be safe. Thanks mate, prepare for a 50Gig
>download!
>
Hay! I was talking about storing the drive ;)
> Hehe... :)
>
Ho! Ho! :)
>
>> I think we're talking about a ram drive here not a HD.
>
> Oh, I was going by what Hildur said about "small sticks or *bigger
>drives*"
>
I read that differently and thought he was talking about recovery. Hmm!
>> I've had problems removing ram drive from Windows 2000 where you have to
>> stop
>> the drive but not with XP or Vista.
>
> In my early days, I heard so much 'bad' as regard to win 2000 that I
>just had to go with win 98. (Like everyone else that wanted a 'computer'
>back then).
I've only ever used 2000 at work, where it seems one of the standards. There is
an icon on the notification area of the taskbar that you have to click and stop
the drive/USB device before removing any hardware. A real PITA until you get
into the habit :)
--
Regards
Stephen
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St. wrote:
> 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. ;)
On an external drive, chances are excellent that if something goes wrong
with the USB controller part, you can just take the drive out of the box
and plug it into a different one, or into your computer internally.
I don't know of any USB hard drives that aren't regular hard drives with
USB slapped on the side (altho I expect maybe there might be some).
--
Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)
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Darren New wrote:
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> I don't know of any USB hard drives that aren't regular hard drives with
> USB slapped on the side (altho I expect maybe there might be some).
>
Probably there isn't and won't be such device easily available. It's
probably a bit cheaper (=profitable) to install ready hard drives from
the same line which sends them to OEM computer manufacturers than to
start making a new model.
OTOH we'll see how USB-HD's can carry on, since eSATA is also getting to
be possible choice. I upgraded my homeserver and changed the case to a
cheap entry-level one (still much better than it used to be.. actually I
think it's quite good) and it has eSATA-connector in the front panel (I
couldn't plug it in, though, since it would've used 1 SATA-connector
from the mobo - and I needed all 6 of them inside).
--
Eero "Aero" Ahonen
http://www.zbxt.net
aer### [at] removethiszbxtnetinvalid
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Eero Ahonen wrote:
> Darren New wrote:
>>
>> I don't know of any USB hard drives that aren't regular hard drives
>> with USB slapped on the side (altho I expect maybe there might be some).
>>
>
> Probably there isn't and won't be such device easily available.
I didn't want to be definite. I *have* seen hard drives designed to
replace memory sticks in high-end cameras. (Compact Flash-shaped hard
drives, I think?)
--
Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)
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>> Games don't have to be complex to be fun. (Tetris, anyone?) They *do*
>> however need to be sufficiently devoid of irritating features like being
>> hard to control or hard to see.
>
> Agreed. Wonder why some phones come with games like golf (HUH??) instead
> of
> snake or tetris or something like that.
I prefer the slower games where you don't need to be able to press 4 keys in
1 second to stay alive (tetris!). Maybe I need bigger keys on my phone, and
does any phone actually allow you to press more than one key simultaneously?
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"St." <dot### [at] dotcom> wrote:
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> Gah, I feel for you!
>
> (Hope you are well).
>
>
> ~Steve~
more than 4 years) and one on XP. Early on (after my first HD crash which
each on a single physical drive, which means I use the primary partition (C)
for the OS, drivers and programs, and the other partitions (D,E,F) for all work
and data (NEVER saving to "MyDocuments" or "Desktop"). The hard drives are much
In the (very likely) case my OS eventually crashes, I can reinstall or upgrade
without touching the other partitions so there is no loss of data.
This has worked for me for a very long time now, so I generally recommend this
approach. I has certain other advantages, like "defragmentation" is usually a
quick process as you usually only have to run it on the system drive. If I run
partition it installs programs to.
The reason I have 4 partitions is... well, the original idea was one for OS, one
for games, one for sound editing, one for 3D work, everybody has their own
preference.
USB drives are very handy when moving data from one location to another, I just
to update them though...
relatively cheap and making backups is fast and easy... good for lazy and
unorganized people like me.
Hildur
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