I back up my PC weekly and therefore have never had a hard disk fail on me. Although I had set the same automated back-up (to CD-R/W) on my wife's PC, she was much more careless about it (never left her PC on long enough for the back-up to take place, never swapped out the CDs, etc.). And ofcourse fate struck. However, she was saved by the skin of her teeth thanks to Linux. In this instance, it was the Windows boot sector that had failed. For some reason, I had once also installed Linux on her PC, which would boot up when Windows would no longer. I was able to use Linux to transfer all her important files (including emails and years of contacts) to another machine in the nick of time, because the hard disk progressively failed more and more.
That time she was lucky. Next time she won't be... 73 de Joe - AB1DO ----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul Shaffer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <flexradio@flex-radio.biz> Sent: Wednesday, December 19, 2007 08:24 Subject: Re: [Flexradio] [OT] please backup your PC > Sometimes you can put the drive in a freezer for a while, then > take it out and it might work for few minutes. Not an urban > legend, it actually worked for a friend of mine. Depends on > what's wrong with it of course. > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > FlexRadio mailing list > FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz > http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz > Archive Link: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ > FlexRadio Knowledge Base: http://kb.flex-radio.com/ > FlexRadio Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com/ > _______________________________________________ FlexRadio mailing list FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archive Link: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ FlexRadio Knowledge Base: http://kb.flex-radio.com/ FlexRadio Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com/
