Eugene Church has hard drive problems

Eugene Church · 12-31-2004, 12:12 PM

If you try to contact me, I will be without a computer for about a week...got hard drive problems...hope I don't lose everything.

FastLane · 12-31-2004, 12:19 PM

....because that would royally bite.

Good Luck, EC! Hope you are able to salvage as much of your files as possible.

nmleague · 12-31-2004, 12:34 PM

Its always a little frightning thinking of losing all the files on a hard drvie. A few days ago I went to Best Buy and bought two Lexar Jump drives, one gig each that plug into my USB port, time to move all my logos to one of those. With a mail in rebate the drives were $59 each. I remember when we had a hard time at work getting the company to spend $1,000 for a 10 meg hard drive, times have changed.

Eugene Church · 01-03-2005, 06:25 PM

Computer back up and running...they told me they saved everything...haven't checked it all out yet.

That was great news.

I am going to get an external backup...any suggestions?

Jestor · 01-03-2005, 06:57 PM

I just bought a Seagate external 120 gig HD the other day from Walmart for around 150 bucks (a little more than that with tax) and it's worked beautifully thus far.

Cuss · 01-03-2005, 07:00 PM

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Originally Posted by Eugene Church

Computer back up and running...they told me they saved everything...haven't checked it all out yet.

That was great news.

I am going to get an external backup...any suggestions?

good to hear you are back, EC.

knuckler · 01-03-2005, 07:16 PM

Welcome back EC.

Eugene Church · 01-03-2005, 10:04 PM

It is good to be back on the forum...I missed it.

However, can't play any games...when I opened up the game...got a message that my license had expired...didn't know it could expire.

I am now waiting to get a reply from E-License to see what I have to do to fix the situation.

Thanks, Jestor for the info about the backup.

Jestor · 01-03-2005, 11:26 PM

Not a problem.

One other thing to keep in mind is that Maxtors, if you get one of those, shouldn't be left on for too long a stretch at a time, or they'll have a tendency to overheat.

Maxtors also have a higher incidence of meltdowns with internal hardrives than any other brand I've encountered.

Eugene Church · 01-04-2005, 03:20 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jestor

Not a problem.

One other thing to keep in mind is that Maxtors, if you get one of those, shouldn't be left on for too long a stretch at a time, or they'll have a tendency to overheat.

Maxtors also have a higher incidence of meltdowns with internal hardrives than any other brand I've encountered.

I think I will back up on CD's...that may be the simplest thing to do.

Eugene Church · 01-04-2005, 11:01 PM

It was my private firewall on the Norton Internet Security that was stopping me from relicensing online with Viatech.

Thanks to statfreak, I finally got to update my alltime allstar baseball league this evening.

Got some good news from my web designer that it should be finished sometime this week.

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nmleague All Star Reserve Join Date: Nov 2002 Posts: 976 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0x in 0 posts	Its always a little frightning thinking of losing all the files on a hard drvie. A few days ago I went to Best Buy and bought two Lexar Jump drives, one gig each that plug into my USB port, time to move all my logos to one of those. With a mail in rebate the drives were $59 each. I remember when we had a hard time at work getting the company to spend $1,000 for a 10 meg hard drive, times have changed. __________________ Northern Midwest League Commissoner Escanaba Miners - NML

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Eugene Church Hall Of Famer Join Date: Aug 2002 Posts: 17,080 Thanks: 100 Thanked 100x in 52 posts	It is good to be back on the forum...I missed it. However, can't play any games...when I opened up the game...got a message that my license had expired...didn't know it could expire. I am now waiting to get a reply from E-License to see what I have to do to fix the situation. Thanks, Jestor for the info about the backup. Last edited by Eugene Church; 01-03-2005 at 10:06 PM.

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Eugene Church Hall Of Famer Join Date: Aug 2002 Posts: 17,080 Thanks: 100 Thanked 100x in 52 posts	Computer back up and running...they told me they saved everything...haven't checked it all out yet. That was great news. I am going to get an external backup...any suggestions?

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Eugene Church Hall Of Famer Join Date: Aug 2002 Posts: 17,080 Thanks: 100 Thanked 100x in 52 posts	It was my private firewall on the Norton Internet Security that was stopping me from relicensing online with Viatech. Thanks to statfreak, I finally got to update my alltime allstar baseball league this evening. Got some good news from my web designer that it should be finished sometime this week.

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