Acadia opened this issue on Dec 12, 2005 ยท 30 posts
XENOPHONZ posted Tue, 13 December 2005 at 12:27 AM
Glad that you were able to recover most of the data.
I've got several operational hard drives in external housings that I cannibalized from my old computers years ago. A couple left over from my old 233MMX machine, and one from my old laptop. At 6-to-20 gigs in size, the drives are small by today's standards. But hey: they work. And for storing things like pictures, they're just fine.
Amazing how I've seen some 10-year-old drives that still run great. And I've seen some brand-new modern drives fail within a week or two of purchase. Not to imply that the old ones didn't constantly break back in their day.......man, oh man did they.........but for whatever reason, you'll occasionally see a hard drive that lasts forever (in PC terms, 10 years is forever).
I wish you success with your data recovery.
BTW - when I do a backup these days, it's onto DVD's. Or, alternately, I use redundant external hard drives for backup. I'll just make more than one copy of my files on two or more hard drives. These days, new hard drives give you FAR more bang for your buck than the old ones used to. Or than we even used to dream about.
Message edited on: 12/13/2005 00:28