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<blockquote data-quote="MacFromOK" data-source="post: 3096183" data-attributes="member: 40864"><p>In case anyone is wondering, I'm still alive. However, there was a death in my...</p><p></p><p>computer. <img src="/images/smilies/biggrin.png" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":D" title="Big Grin :D" data-shortname=":D" /></p><p></p><p>For those who are worried about getting your time back, it's just boring stuff from here down.</p><p></p><p>I run 3 hard drives. 2 are carbon copies of my old '98SE system (who's mobo died), the 3rd is the drive that came with this XP clunker. I also back up important stuff from the XP drive (C<img src="/images/smilies/smile.png" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" data-shortname=":)" /> to the other two.</p><p></p><p>One of the backup drives died a while back, and I failed to replace it in a timely fashion. Last week, the remaining backup drive started softly cooing like a dove. It literally sounded like "coo...coo...coo..."</p><p></p><p>And when I tried to access it, my file explorer locked up. So I shut things down, removed it and installed two new (more/less new, they were pulls from unsold computers) Seagate drives.</p><p></p><p>After getting everything set up (primary/extended partitions, drives, formatting), I disconnected the primary backup and re-connected the "cooing" drive in it's place, leaning at sort of a 30 degree angle or so.</p><p></p><p>It mounted right up, and I started copying files. By being careful and not running it very long at at time, I finally got all the data I wanted off it. Then I re-installed the new primary backup and copied everything to it.</p><p></p><p>Some of the data & apps/games/utilities are from the '90s, and I was pretty happy to rescue them. <img src="/images/smilies/new/drunk.gif" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":drunk2:" title="Drunk 2 :drunk2:" data-shortname=":drunk2:" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MacFromOK, post: 3096183, member: 40864"] In case anyone is wondering, I'm still alive. However, there was a death in my... computer. :D For those who are worried about getting your time back, it's just boring stuff from here down. I run 3 hard drives. 2 are carbon copies of my old '98SE system (who's mobo died), the 3rd is the drive that came with this XP clunker. I also back up important stuff from the XP drive (C:) to the other two. One of the backup drives died a while back, and I failed to replace it in a timely fashion. Last week, the remaining backup drive started softly cooing like a dove. It literally sounded like "coo...coo...coo..." And when I tried to access it, my file explorer locked up. So I shut things down, removed it and installed two new (more/less new, they were pulls from unsold computers) Seagate drives. After getting everything set up (primary/extended partitions, drives, formatting), I disconnected the primary backup and re-connected the "cooing" drive in it's place, leaning at sort of a 30 degree angle or so. It mounted right up, and I started copying files. By being careful and not running it very long at at time, I finally got all the data I wanted off it. Then I re-installed the new primary backup and copied everything to it. Some of the data & apps/games/utilities are from the '90s, and I was pretty happy to rescue them. :drunk2: [/QUOTE]
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