Mother & Me

[Elian Degen J.]

Hello Robert and List

I simpathize with you, I had a similar problem ends of december, I usualy do
that, I take the hard drive each year to be backed up to a CD. I missed last
year, so I had two years toghether, meanwhile I keep an emergency backed up
in Zip.drives.

Guess.. I took the drive to where they burn CD´s and when they hooked it to
their computer, the drive refused to start...

I took the drive back home, and it was dead...  I bought a new drive and I
was going to restore eight compressed zip disks, and I got a message,
something like corrupt data in the last disk. When I put any other disk in
it just says insert the last disk..

Two years lost...

I hooked back the original drive and with a disk utility I was able to
recover about 20% of the information, but not my customers info, all that
file is dead.

Now I see that the best is having a CD burner at home.

Happy New Millenium /
----- Original Message -----
From: robert goodale <rrg@nevada.edu>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2000 3:19 AM
Subject: Mother & Me


> Hi all, I'm back from what was supposed to be Christmas
> vacation.  With all traveling, last minute shopping, family,
> ect., it was hardly a relaxation time, however.  Humbug!  Hope
> everyone else had a good holiday.  Actually New Years Eve in Las
> Vegas was pretty wild.
>
> I have been off the list a bit longer than I expected.  When I
> came home I turned on my computer to check my mail.  Suddenly the
> system froze up.  Figuring it was just Netscape or one of those
> "things" that happens sometimes I shut down and restarted the
> computer.  At the desktop it locked up again.  Again I
> rebooted...  except it wouldn't.  Again and again the system
> refused to start.  Fortunately it is a new Gateway 2000 PIII and
> fully under warranty.  I took it in to the local shop and was
> informed the next day that the mother board was completely
> cooked!!  The hard drive they said was okay.  Unfortunately when
> they got it all together again the operating system was not
> accepting the new board so they had to reformat the whole drive.
> Yup... I lost EVERYTHING, much of which was very important.  And
> the moral is... Buy a zip drive ASAP!!!  AAAUGGGHHH!!!!!
> Anyway, I have a new mother now.  Let's pray she is a good one!
>
> Rob Goodale, RPT
> Las Vegas, NV
>
>