Mother & Me

[Elian Degen J.]

That is true Newton,

I did it lots of times, if the Hard drive is ok, you just hook it up as a
slave, and access the data, transfere it and you are done

Elian
----- Original Message -----
From: Newton Hunt <nhunt@jagat.com>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2000 1:44 PM
Subject: Re: Mother & Me


> > so they had to reformat the whole drive.
>
> That was so STUPID!!!
>
> They should have given you the option of buying a new hard drive.
> $100 to $140 and you could have transferred all your data to the new
> drive with no difficulty what so ever.  Even if the old one would not
> boot the data on it was intact.  They would have made a little more
> money and you would have saved hundreds and hundreds of hours
> rebuilding a mere fraction of your data.
>
> Some people or SO stupid!!!
>
> Newton (so sorry for your problem but I have NEVER lost a lot of
> data, yet)
>
> PS  I use a second drive and a program called DriveCopy that makes a
> bootable copy of the main drive.  The copy drive is not kept in the
> CPU which is open all the time.  Simple, effective, safe, elegant and
> so _easy_.
>
> njh
>
>