[Fwd: Re: [WISPA] OT Hard Drive Failure]

2005-11-29 Thread A. Huppenthal
my email was stuck.. its a few days late, but perhaps this will help... Buy a USB 300 GB drive.. USB 2 is fast and reliable. We've had good luck with Seagate drives. Might cost you $250 - run an overnight backup, or just link it in and back items up you need. Also, most replacement drive mak

RE: [WISPA] OT Hard Drive Failure

2005-11-29 Thread Jonathan Schmidt
I've used this exact one and recovered all useful data from several friend's failing laptop drives...and, wow, if you want to be someone's friend for life just have one of these $6 baby wonders handy.  An NTFS disk repair is often helpful if you can't get good data: do it under MY COMPUER

RE: [WISPA] OT Hard Drive Failure

2005-11-29 Thread Ron Wallace
Good job Brian, good talk too. Original message >Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2005 16:20:58 -0500 >From: "Brian Rohrbacher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: RE: [WISPA] OT Hard Drive Failure >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "'WISPA General List'" > >I got it. What I have to do was install mozilla on

Re: [WISPA] OT Hard Drive Failure

2005-11-29 Thread Brian Rohrbacher
http://www.pcconnection.com/Search.asp?Term=laptop+to+ide+hard+drive+adapter&Offset=0&DefSort=Y&om=search This is the one I got.  The buy it now from ebay could not be overnighted so I got this one.  The ebay one is on the way.  If you want the ebay one, let me know.  When it comes in I can se

Re: [WISPA] OT Hard Drive Failure

2005-11-29 Thread Dylan Oliver
Don't forget your off-site backups! Paper and hard-drives are no good in event of fire and other Acts of God. "Acts of God" is my favorite bit of legalese, beating even "Quiet Enjoyment".-- Dylan OliverPrimaverity, LLC -- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://list

Re: [WISPA] OT Hard Drive Failure

2005-11-29 Thread Mario Pommier
con you post the ebay link or the adapter name? M Brian Rohrbacher wrote: I got the adapter off ebay. I plugged it into the desktop and I HAVE ACCESS! I was able to get my important stuff (quickbooks, IP and mac list, company info and oictures) I am working on mozilla right now. I can

RE: [WISPA] OT Hard Drive Failure

2005-11-29 Thread Brian Rohrbacher
I got it. What I have to do was install mozilla on the desktop machine and then I copied the whole thunderbird folder to my desktop machine from the laptop drive and walla I have all 4 email settingd (all account being checked) all 10,000 or so emails in trash (my searchable archive) and all my in

Re: [WISPA] OT Hard Drive Failure

2005-11-29 Thread Peter R.
Brian Rohrbacher wrote: I got the adapter off ebay. I plugged it into the desktop and I HAVE ACCESS! I was able to get my important stuff (quickbooks, IP and mac list, company info and oictures) I am working on mozilla right now. I can find wehre the emails would be stored at? I had thousan

RE: [WISPA] OT Hard Drive Failure

2005-11-29 Thread Brian Rohrbacher
I got the adapter off ebay. I plugged it into the desktop and I HAVE ACCESS! I was able to get my important stuff (quickbooks, IP and mac list, company info and oictures) I am working on mozilla right now. I can find wehre the emails would be stored at? I had thousands of them in folders and w