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If anyone has noticed that I have been rather quiet recently*, there's a
reason. When I tried to copy the files from my old computer which died
back in November onto this new computer by putting the hard drives** from
the old one into this one in the secondary position, something strange and
not-wonderful happened. The first one worked fine. The second one (the
primary drive from the computer that died), though, b-i-g problem: now,
it, the secondary drive from that machine (with all my astronomy/teaching
stuff and more), and the hard drive which came in this new machine all are
considered "Unknown device" by this machine. I'm finally up and running on
an old 4.3GB "Quantum Bigfoot" (so named because it has as big a footprint
as a CD-ROM drive), but either need to find some way to repair the other
drives (preferably!) or will have to get a new drive. Any ideas what may
have happened to cause this, anyone? FWIW, (1) I have performed this task
many times before, with no problem, and (2) the computer and everything
associated with it (including the phone line) is plugged into a "power
center" with surge protection which itself is plugged into a
surge-protected power strip which is plugged into the wall, and AFAIK those
surge protectors are working, and (unlike tonight when there is freezing
rain which may bring down some power lines predicted for the counties to
the east of here), there was no thunderstorm or other weird power surges
the night this happened. So, you experts out there, any ideas on how to
completely repair the problem(s), or at least recover the data?
