The drive adapter arrived yesterday, and as much of our stuff as I
could find has been copied or moved.
I'm almost done with reinstalling the smaller apps.
ISTR either dad or bro wanted to keep the WinVista system on the old
drive, so this will need to be used at least one more time.
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BOB
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esday, October 18, 2011 10:18 PM
To: tvornottv@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: [TV orNotTV] Re: Half-OT: Changing hardware again
On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 7:12 PM, Bob in Jersey
wrote:
>
>> Failing that, aren't there connectors that enable one end of the drive
>> to be plugged in as if it
Updating, I've restored our Juno accounts, with plenty of help from
something called 'juno5bdb', from a DVD to which I'd happily been
backing them up twice a week; sadly, the batch file I used to make the
backups is on the other HDD and damned if I can remember it in a
natural way. Juno as of the
It never fails; I pay $35, then litle bro says he could get similar on
eBay for $6.
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I have one of these:
http://www.meritline.com/kingwin-sataide-to-usb-adapter-for-25-and-35-drive-model-usi-2535---p-50793.aspx
It's useful for moving files off old hard drives, because it will
allow pretty much any hard drive from the 1990s to the present to be
temporarily connected to a machine v
On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 11:33 AM, Bob in Jersey wrote:
> Failing that, aren't there connectors that enable one end of the drive
> to be plugged in as if it were inside a computer case, but the other
> end is a USB plug that goes into any current machine?
>
I have one that looks like a little box
On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 8:15 PM, Kevin M. wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 8:00 PM, Bob in Jersey wrote:
>>
>> "Kevin M.", to moi:
>>> I adore B&H... used to use them all the time when ordering supplies
>>> back when I ran a college TV station... amazing service, amazing
>>> selection, and (no ki
On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 8:00 PM, Bob in Jersey wrote:
>
> "Kevin M.", to moi:
>> I adore B&H... used to use them all the time when ordering supplies
>> back when I ran a college TV station... amazing service, amazing
>> selection, and (no kidding) as an entirely Jewish establishment, they
>> were
"Kevin M.", to moi:
> I adore B&H... used to use them all the time when ordering supplies
> back when I ran a college TV station... amazing service, amazing
> selection, and (no kidding) as an entirely Jewish establishment, they
> were open on Sundays so we could get products shipped to us on Mond
On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 7:12 PM, Bob in Jersey wrote:
>
>> Failing that, aren't there connectors that enable one end of the drive
>> to be plugged in as if it were inside a computer case, but the other
>> end is a USB plug that goes into any current machine?
>
> Answering myself, there are, tho no
> Failing that, aren't there connectors that enable one end of the drive
> to be plugged in as if it were inside a computer case, but the other
> end is a USB plug that goes into any current machine?
Answering myself, there are, tho not very many places sell 'em; the
nearest to me is B&H on the w
You could search amazon or newegg or even Bestbuy for external hard drive
enclosures. That would let you access the data on the drive and continue to
use it for backup. Most hard drives are increasingly prone to failure
after 3 years. I would not advise leaving anything on the drive that you do
n
Well, little bro said he doesn't have the proper connections to mate
the old HDD to some other machine. He's apt to complain bitterly that
his day job doesn't enable him to do geeky stuff anymore, and that the
rest of the family are all ing tightwads. (No comment.)
Dad then went back to the BB
On Oct 16, 8:37 pm, Joe Hass wrote:
> Assuming there's no damage to the old drive, this should be a really
> easy transfer if you want to do it yourself.
>
> http://lifehacker.com/253847/alpha-geek-turn-an-old-hard-drive-into-a...
>
> My sympathies on your loss.
ISTR hearing from my next younge
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