[Duo2400] Re: Mysterious hard drive problem SOLVED

2003-09-09 Thread R. McFarlane
At 12:27 PM 9/9/2003, [EMAIL PROTECTED], had this to say : Tape drives work well, too. I've got a DAT drive I'm not using if anyone is interested...HP mechanism, holds like 6 gigs. Retrospect does a fine job. Got two drives, I'm not giving up on DATs. Andrew Hi there, I tried e-mailing you bu

[Duo2400] Re: Mysterious hard drive problem SOLVED

2003-09-09 Thread R. McFarlane
At 11:46 AM 9/9/2003, Peter Goertzen, had this to say : Despite the happy ending, this latest adventure with my hard drive got me thinking about backing up my files. I currently have only a few floppies with my documents and a couple of hard-to-replace applications backed up on them. What's my bes

[Duo2400] Re: Mysterious hard drive problem SOLVED

2003-09-09 Thread Edgar Peinelt
Peter, I am pleased to hear that your problem has disappeared. As to backup solutions - you will certainly need to buy some sort of dock (DuoDock, MiniDock, SCSI MicroDock). External HD cartridge drives are a very convenient solution, especially because of their speed which makes possible the creat

[Duo2400] Re: Mysterious hard drive problem SOLVED

2003-09-09 Thread Mike Hayes
I have an external SCSI CD-R 2x (6x read) I would be willing to sell for almost nothing. Mike On Tuesday, September 9, 2003, at 02:46 PM, Peter Goertzen wrote: Hello all, and Edgar in particular, It turns out that you were on the right track about Norton creating invisible files. A friend sug

[Duo2400] Re: Mysterious hard drive problem SOLVED

2003-09-09 Thread ElBrio
In a message dated 9/9/03 2:47:02 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: << What's my best option for archiving with my 2300c? External hard drive? Zip drive? Is there a CD burner available for my machine? Peter >> CDR is cheap, and not so limiting on the Mac (it is on a PeeCeecan you say 120 gig

[Duo2400] Mysterious hard drive problem SOLVED

2003-09-09 Thread Peter Goertzen
Hello all, and Edgar in particular, It turns out that you were on the right track about Norton creating invisible files. A friend suggested that I search for files over a certain size, and sure enough, a 278 MB file showed up! It had been created by System Info, and when that program froze, it did

[Duo2400] Mysterious hard drive problem SOLVED

2003-09-09 Thread Peter Goertzen
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