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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>I have a new solid state USB drive 320 gig cost 69.95 from
Iomega.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Works great on the laptop.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial> Also instead of cd`s for the last 2 years I been
using 2 and 4 gig SD cards, many times faster than the thumb drives but I have a
few of those too since the trailer crash I stopped using Cd`s, DVD`s and
mechanical hard drives. Also I found a place to back up on the web so in
case the house sinks with a earthquake I can get a pc and recover.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>As for HD recovery, I already have what it takes to
recover certain things, but with physical damage there just is a lost case
there.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial> No we dont take the disks out of hard drives
and put them in a new case, this is not something home users are set up for.
Besides getting the disks in alignment would be very difficult since the head
readers read more than one disk at a time.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial> When something as volatile as happed to my PC
I was lucky to get any things back. I put it in another pc last night that I got
from a thrift shop and found it was the old PC and not the hard drive, I got the
hard drive in as drive D and got it all moved to the newer solid state drive so
I have all my data back save for a bit that was lost ( Rogers ) mainly was a new
addition and I have it on Cd`s but time will tell because there is a lot of cd`s
that got trashed. Lucky I use drag n drop so the cd scandisk can try to recover
things.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial> I have gone all solid state these days. I
keep a 4 gig sd card inmy laptop and save all newer items there I can take it to
my family and not have to carry the larger drives, also I can mail them and they
don't get cracked and don't cost much they fit in an envelope and a couple
stamps, walla!</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Dan M ) rare off topic answer ;)) - ex commodore bbs sys -
op.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A
title=or-roots@listsmart.osl.state.or.us
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Friday, February 12, 2010 9:03
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [or-roots] Computers are great
but!</DIV>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><FONT face="Arial Narrow">I am not a computer expert
but my use of computers goes back to the days of the Radio Shack’s trash 80
when 250 kb was a very big deal and now we think of TBs as a big deal.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Along the way I have learn a few
things from the school of hard knocks.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>And I would like to share just a tit bits.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><FONT face="Arial Narrow">First most everything can be
done for a price.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We all use hard
drives and they come in all shapes and sizes.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So the question is how much is that
data worth to you.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I had a
portable hard drive (one of many) that one day decided not to work.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I am not sure why but my theory is
that I drop it on the hard wood floor.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Well for about $2500 I found a reliable company in the <st1:City
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">San Francisco</st1:place></st1:City> bay area
that would retrieve my data from this hard drive, which at the time was out of
my price range.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But in steps a
geek friend who suggested that maybe the hard drive was Ok but the case should
be replaced.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So $100 later and a
new case and I am back in business and keeping my data in more than one
storage location (Hard Drive).<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><FONT face="Arial Narrow">Eugene
Melvin<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P><BR></DIV>
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