Re: OT: Hard disk mirror with Paragon on USB stick?

On Fri, 12 Dec 2008 13:18:39 -0700, Jim Thompson
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On Fri, 12 Dec 2008 11:58:14 -0800, Joerg
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Joel Koltner wrote:
Hi Joerg,

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A lot of disks came with it but not that one.

If there wasn't a recovery CD, there's a good chance that either...

1) There's a recovery partition, and pressing some magical key combination
like Ctrl+F11 at boot (this is what older Dells used) activates it.
...or...
2) There might be an option somewhere buried in the Start Menu that allows you
to manually create a restore CD. I've used Sony laptops that were this way...
either create your own restore CDs, or if you had to do a complete re-install,
you called up Sony and forked over something like $30 for their copies. :-(

Afraid it's too late. The laptop did not get off the ground this morning.
The equivalent of finding a huge puddle of transmission fluid under your car
:-(

Ah, well, then the above it moot at this point. Hopefully you were able to
backup her data files prior to the final death spiral?


Except I always forgot the bookmarks because I don't use such stuff much
myself. Dang.


I doubt she'll be unhappy with a new laptop for Xmas here... :-)


Sure, but all she needs is email and web. And we don't like to throw
things away if they can be repaired. I'll go look for a small low cost
laptop drive. She never needed more than 1-2GB for data and pictures so
there is no point in buying a $100 super-sized drive. Tonight I'll set
up web mail access for her from the lab, that gives me some time to fix
it. As luck has it work has piled up to right before Christmas.

There's an old wives tale that says refrigerate the drive for awhile.
Then it should spin up long enough to extract a back-up.

I haven't tried it... I've always been lucky and heard the bearing
noise early enough to get a back-up ;-)

...Jim Thompson

You say some of the dopeyest *** in the world sometimes, regardless of
whatever you do know on the 'smart side' of things. This ain't one of
'em.
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