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boot from start-up disk failed
Mike,
Just did a 'back-of-an-envelope' price check on Scan site. A LaCie 300 GB Ext USB HDD (3.5"?) = £126 A WD 320 GB 3.5 IDE HDD (£45) + Newlink 3.5 IDE-USB Enclosure (£11) = £56 AND - you can access the HDD in the Newlink enclosure bg No contest!! Oops! - Just seen your post Joan. Hope yours was somewhat cheaper than £126 Mart "Mike M" wrote in message ... Mart, Which is what happened. That is, since I was unable to recover the data and then clean the drive, the owner chose to destroy it himself rather than return it with the data quite possibly intact. Shame really because it looked to be a nice bit of kit but with the drive having failed after less than six months I know I won't be buying a LaCie. -- Mike |
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Hmmmm......
I just had a fun system to play with (totally OT for this group) - XP lappy with a 40GB drive, pretty well updated and 'clean' WRT malware. Owner complained they'd lost a load of JPG files from the box and could I find them...... turned out there was almost no free space on the HD, and at least 1/2 of what was there was screwed because of either the 32GB limit in FAT32 (for XP), or a hardware problem.... After three days of searching with no results, I gave up, and just did a cleanup on the box (freeing 7GB along the way, despite shrinking the partition by 3GB), then reformatted to NTFS, and suggested that the owner get a new HD..... They asked me to install the new HD (160GB)..... no problem, except for needing to buy a 2.5"external case, and then waiting for 14hrs for the data transfer!! I returned the machine to them this morning - and THEN I find out that the 'lost' files hadn't been seen in months!'...... meanwhile the profile that they'd been stored in had been deleted....etc...etc..... I really should learn to dig a little deeper into client problems - but this one seemed so simple as first presented! If it hadn't been for another family member needing some help, I'd have lost serious money on the job - it was a 100mile round trip to deliver the fixed machine. AS always, I learnt a few things along the way, which for me is the important aspect. -- Noel Paton CrashFixPC Nil Carborundum Illegitemi www.crashfixpc.co.uk "Mart" wrote in message ... Mike, Just did a 'back-of-an-envelope' price check on Scan site. A LaCie 300 GB Ext USB HDD (3.5"?) = £126 A WD 320 GB 3.5 IDE HDD (£45) + Newlink 3.5 IDE-USB Enclosure (£11) = £56 AND - you can access the HDD in the Newlink enclosure bg No contest!! Oops! - Just seen your post Joan. Hope yours was somewhat cheaper than £126 Mart "Mike M" wrote in message ... Mart, Which is what happened. That is, since I was unable to recover the data and then clean the drive, the owner chose to destroy it himself rather than return it with the data quite possibly intact. Shame really because it looked to be a nice bit of kit but with the drive having failed after less than six months I know I won't be buying a LaCie. -- Mike |
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Mart,
The external drive I was trying to recover data from was a LaCie 250GB "Little Disk" (301830) that has both usb2 and FW400 interfaces. Dabs have them at £64.98. Scan don't appear to stock them. The £126 job that you found at Scan has a usb2 interface but also has an RJ45 10/100MHz ethernet interface making it Network Attached Storage (NAS) that can be connected directly to a router or switch. This capability always adds a fair amount to the price of a drive as it requires the drive to have a processor (cpu) and memory. -- Mike Mart wrote: Mike, Just did a 'back-of-an-envelope' price check on Scan site. A LaCie 300 GB Ext USB HDD (3.5"?) = £126 A WD 320 GB 3.5 IDE HDD (£45) + Newlink 3.5 IDE-USB Enclosure (£11) = £56 AND - you can access the HDD in the Newlink enclosure bg No contest!! Oops! - Just seen your post Joan. Hope yours was somewhat cheaper than £126 |
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boot from start-up disk failed
Joan Archer wrote:
Glad I didn't buy one of those then g my new drive arrived today and is sitting here with it's little green light showing me it's on at least g Does that mean you haven't tried using it yet Joan? g I'm surprised you haven't half filled it already. :-) I'm busy trying to clear some of my external storage by archiving to DVD but it seems to be taking me absolutely ages. Might just be because of the amount that needs to be done vbg. It looks like I'm going to have to order some more blank DVDs this weekend, I'm getting through them so quickly. I need to work out how many to order this time round - hopefully SVP still have free delivery for orders £xx. Phew, it looks as if they still do, which means I get to buy another tub. -- Mike |
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boot from start-up disk failed
"Mart" wrote in message ... Harry wrote :- Unless you know one of the astronauts to take it along into space - Jeepers Harry, we're bad enough at controlling our own pollution here on earth without dumping it into outer space and inflicting it on to some other life form. Didn't I tell you it was a bad idea, too, Mart? To me this entire situation seems as if not fully explored but, hey, I am not an "expert" either..... H. I think the sledge hammer followed by the recycle bin is a better course of action. Mart "webster72n" wrote in message ... "Mart" wrote in message ... Mike, not sure that I would be happy sending a 'faulty' drive back, even under warranty, if it contained personal data no matter how damaged it was. I'd be happier destroying it beyond all recognition and write it off than trusting it to some spotty kid in a 'Returns Department' after reading the numerous scare stories. A sledge hammer is the only effective tool I can think of to accomplish that, Mart, besides machinery or high intensity fire. Unless you know one of the astronauts to take it along into space - no, bad idea too g. H. Mart "Mike M" wrote in message ... Mart, I've got the tools required including the hammer however I'm not sure that LaCie would be happy about replacing a defective drive under warranty if it were to have been returned with the case smashed! vbg What I was trying to do for my friend was to recover data from the disk before he returned the drive as being defective. -- Mike |
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boot from start-up disk failed
Hi Mart,
Yes it was definitely cheaper than that or there's no way I would be able to have bought it. I got a Seagate Expansion 500GB USB Desktop Hard Drive for £49.99 from Play.com free delivery as well g -- Joan Archer http://www.freewebs.com/crossstitcher http://lachsoft.com/photogallery "Mart" wrote in message ... Mike, Just did a 'back-of-an-envelope' price check on Scan site. A LaCie 300 GB Ext USB HDD (3.5"?) = £126 A WD 320 GB 3.5 IDE HDD (£45) + Newlink 3.5 IDE-USB Enclosure (£11) = £56 AND - you can access the HDD in the Newlink enclosure bg No contest!! Oops! - Just seen your post Joan. Hope yours was somewhat cheaper than £126 Mart "Mike M" wrote in message ... Mart, Which is what happened. That is, since I was unable to recover the data and then clean the drive, the owner chose to destroy it himself rather than return it with the data quite possibly intact. Shame really because it looked to be a nice bit of kit but with the drive having failed after less than six months I know I won't be buying a LaCie. -- Mike __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 4395 (20090904) __________ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 4395 (20090904) __________ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com |
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lol Not quite half full g no actually to start off I've just done an
image of my Vista machine including the hidden partition that the makers put on the drive. I haven't got around to setting up a schedule yet, it's Friday so not as much time to mess about today. The difference in size makes me laugh this one is sitting on the shelf above the tower on my desk so it can be left plugged in, it has it's own power adapter so that's good, and my other drive looks more like a midget compared to the new one it's not even as big as a notebook. Mind you that one is only a 2.5" portable, well laptop size, whereas the Seagate is a 3.5" drive in it's own enclosure. I still have an image on the small drive but as it's only 80GB I knew I needed to get a bigger one especially when I want to image both OS's -- Joan Archer http://www.freewebs.com/crossstitcher http://lachsoft.com/photogallery "Mike M" wrote in message ... Joan Archer wrote: Glad I didn't buy one of those then g my new drive arrived today and is sitting here with it's little green light showing me it's on at least g Does that mean you haven't tried using it yet Joan? g I'm surprised you haven't half filled it already. :-) I'm busy trying to clear some of my external storage by archiving to DVD but it seems to be taking me absolutely ages. Might just be because of the amount that needs to be done vbg. It looks like I'm going to have to order some more blank DVDs this weekend, I'm getting through them so quickly. I need to work out how many to order this time round - hopefully SVP still have free delivery for orders £xx. Phew, it looks as if they still do, which means I get to buy another tub. -- Mike __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 4395 (20090904) __________ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 4395 (20090904) __________ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com |
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