I posted previously about problems with my hard drive, and I took it to the local Geek Squad for analysis. For $59 they sent it to Louisville for deeper inspection. I’m thinking part of the problem now is that they sent it too close to Sphere. The tech called this morning and said hard drive problems are rated as class 1, 2 or 3, and mine is a class 3. I suspect that most of them are diagnosed that way. For an additional $100 they will send it into surgery in a clean room and see what can be done. If they find that the data can recovered 80% they will copy it all to cd’s and bill me $1,600. If they can’t get 80% then they send it back no further charge.
That backup progrsm sure is looking like cheap insurasnce now.
“Put your creed in your deed.” Emerson
“When asked if you can do something, tell’em “Why certainly I can”, then get busy and find a way to do it.” T. Roosevelt
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Nope. Thats Gunners back yard, and Dave R. I am WAY OVER HERE in Madison County. Way over.
Sounds bad Ed, I hate it for ya.
I try to not have anything THAT important depend on a Computer..just old habits die hard. What sucked was when some MoFo broke into my van and stole my photo portfolio...and a lot of the negs were lost in a fire 12 yrs ago. I widh I had scanned and saved them.
Best of luck.
Actually its just one exit North of me.
MP
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPONTneuaF4
So, it was your fault.
email my AOL addy, with your snail mail addy,I have a check for you. I still have aol for the wife on the LT, but the DT is aol free, but that dish-email sucks. heeheheehe...ran a months worth of newspaper thru the shredder this morning..cool. Van drawers are stuffed.
Wow, $1600 that's a bummer.
I've got most of our digital pics burned to CD's. Back my business stuff up to a zip drive every week or so. That's about the only important stuff on my computer.
The Geek Squad sent my laptop to Louisville last January to fix the cooling fan and a problem with the display. Finally got it back a month later, with a dead battery and no power cord. They never did fix the display problem. The cord took another two weeks to get. The fan stopped working again a couple weeks ago. It's out of warranty now, gonna see if a local computer guy can fix it this time.
Mike
get a western digital my book external hard drive and run acronis software. it will take an entire image of you harddrive. if it crashes just reload the image...no reloading software etc
I just did some work with Maxtor, they gave me a couple of 500GB externals as a parting gift of sorts.Good product.I have a WD MyBook on my kids's computer.Easy insurance.Mongo
I've had 5 drives fail. 4 of them were Maxtors. I'd hate to lose 500G of computer sh!t.http://grantlogan.net/
Sometimes, when I lie in bed at night and look up at the stars, I think to myself, "Man! I really need to fix that roof."
All major disk manufacturers have had bad runs of drives. This is one reason why you do backups.
So convenient a thing it is to be a reasonable Creature, since it enables one to find or make a Reason for everything one has a mind to do. --Benjamin Franklin
Mine was a Maxtor 30g mfgd in 2002."Put your creed in your deed." Emerson
"When asked if you can do something, tell'em "Why certainly I can", then get busy and find a way to do it." T. Roosevelt
I've had Maxtor, Seagate, and Western Digital drives all fail at one time or another, and have heard of similar experience from others. A mfgr will go along for 5 years or so with minimal problems, then a particular drive line will start causing trouble, with a whole flock of problems in the space of a year or two. Then they get the problem under control and it's some other mfgr's turn.
So convenient a thing it is to be a reasonable Creature, since it enables one to find or make a Reason for everything one has a mind to do. --Benjamin Franklin
(This does kinda suggest that if you have a backup drive, it's better that it be a different brand from your main drive.)
So convenient a thing it is to be a reasonable Creature, since it enables one to find or make a Reason for everything one has a mind to do. --Benjamin Franklin
FWIW, I just got a drive data recovery for $100. They quoted me $250 to do it and charged me $100.http://grantlogan.net/
Sometimes, when I lie in bed at night and look up at the stars, I think to myself, "Man! I really need to fix that roof."
I have a mac I use a LACIE external hd to back up my photos etc. i also have a .mac account which automatically backs up the data I select to a mac server and to my external
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Thomas Paine
A Lacie external was the other drive I had fail. I couldn't remember what the brand was 'til you reminded me. Shoulda bought a Ford.............
http://grantlogan.net/
Sometimes, when I lie in bed at night and look up at the stars, I think to myself, "Man! I really need to fix that roof."
I havent had a problem with mine yet. I hope I dont because I got a lot of family pictures on it.
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I havent had a problem with mine yet. I hope I dont because I got a lot of family pictures on it.
Better back 'em up. That's why I had to have the drive recovered.http://grantlogan.net/
Sometimes, when I lie in bed at night and look up at the stars, I think to myself, "Man! I really need to fix that roof."
>I havent had a problem with mine yet. <
It's just a matter of time. it doens't take much to do, either an external HD (even addl internal) or CDs or DVDs (better than CDs in capacity).
I lost a drive with pictures on it and DWs letter to our at the time unborn daughter written during her pregnancy. Data Recovery places (2 top notch ones) couldn't make it work so it sits in the safe waiting for technology to (hopefully) catch up with the problem.
ron,
lacie makes the most beautiful (as in pretty) external hard drives I have ever seen.
they even patterned some after legos.
way cool.
unfortunately, lacie's external drives are generally regarded as junk.
take a look at the reviews on amazon.
back them up with something else.
carpenter in transition
Grant where did you get it done for $100?"Put your creed in your deed." Emerson
"When asked if you can do something, tell'em "Why certainly I can", then get busy and find a way to do it." T. Roosevelt
Micro Computer Analysts, Inc.
128 Southland Dr
Lexington, KY 40503 859-275-1228They are slower than molasses, but I have to give them a pat on the back for charging less than their quote.http://grantlogan.net/
Sometimes, when I lie in bed at night and look up at the stars, I think to myself, "Man! I really need to fix that roof."
Five?Wow!I've never had one go south, just lucky I guess.All three desktops I've owned have been Dells. One laptop was an eMachine (freebie), one a Sony Vaio (freebie), one a Dell (paid for).My first Dell desktop I converted into an arcade game. Built a standard arcade-sized and shaped cabinet, converted the keyboard to joysticks and buttons, and loaded it with old-style mame-based arcade games... Ms Pacman, Asteriods, etc.The other two desktops are still in use. The Maxtor and Western Digital external drives seem to be pretty decent. Let's hope my luck continues.Mongo
$1,600??????!!!!! My entire computer cost about $1K, and lots of people told me I spent too much. Methinks I will order one of those USB backup drives. Tonight!
I've been using Carbonite for backup for about 8 months now. It backs up to a server somewhere, I have no idea where. It runs in the background on my machine, and sends any file that is added or changed, monitoring and uploading on an ongoing basis (usually starts uploading within an hour or two of any changes, depending on how much the internet connection is doing). I make occasional CDs of my stuff too.
About 6 monts ago I had a 30gig onboard fail. Geek Squad couldn't fix it & wanted to send it off; forcast high cost.
I took it to local computor repair shop who disassembled it, put the disks in another case and recovered all the data files. We didn't even try software; why bother just re load it. Cost about $300
This points out why to keep all data files in seperate direcory from program files.
Jim
Remember, Hard Drives have a 100% failure rate.
Also, remember that the Geek Squad is overpriced and undertrained. You can always find better, cheaper tech support help at a local computer place.