Re: Windows OS .... troubles and can't access my cad files - BACKUP yours.

Yes, ask anyone in any computer store ...Best Buy, Circiut City,
whatever you have where you are. It's a very common item these
days.

Another thing to consider ,once you get this fixed, is using
partitions. Had you saved your files on a seperate partition, you'd
be able to reinstall and whatever was on the logical partitions
would still be there.Partition Magic is practically foolproof.

The external H.D. is still the best route.

The linux thing is a "necessity" in an emergency. It's easy to
do also.

John



--- In CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@yahoogroups.com, Darren Lucke
<oneluckeboy@y...> wrote:

>
> I'd be game for that as I saved a 20 gb hd several
> years back that went down on me too once. Then... I
> started backing everything up to my external hd but
> alas, not often enough.
> Would you know where to get an adapter for this for a
> laptop hd to usb?
> Darren
>
>
>
> --- kz1927 <kz1927@y...> wrote:
>
> > Swapping the drives will do no good. What he meant
> > was to add
> > the corrupted drive as a secondary drive in another
> > machine.
> > Presumably a desktop machine.
> >
> > What you can do is buy on of those kits that
> > converts an
> > internal drive to a USB drive...hook it up to your
> > laptop that
> > works and it'll be recognized as an extra drive that
> > you can access
> > and copy your files from and save them.
> >
> > That's assuming you consider that you're going to
> > have to reinstall
> > the O.S. on the bad drive.
> >
> > If you keep trying you'll eventually be able to
> > repair it but it can
> > be less trouble to just get your stuff off it and do
> > a reinstall.
> >
> > If you want to go the linux route you could download
> >
> >
> > http://slax.linux-live.org/download.php
> >
> > you'll need to burn a cd which will boot from the CD
> > drive.
> > It will allow access to your files and you could
> > copy them off to a
> > USB Jumpdrive.
> >
> > John
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > --- In CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@yahoogroups.com, Darren Lucke
> > <oneluckeboy@y...> wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > Will this work w/ laptops (both are HP omnibooks)?
> >
> > > I've upgraded before from 20 to 40 gb so I'm not
> > > concerned w/ swapping but thoguht OS was on hd
> > thus
> > > the same prob w/ boot up, no??
> > >
> > > The other linux type program may be what I try
> > > tomorrow... this has me more beat trying to
> > understand
> > > it than learning CNC... haha..
> > >
> > > Darren
> > > --- Ken Strauss <ken.strauss@s...> wrote:
> > >
> > > > I haven't followed all of the messages but...
> > > >
> > > > Why not just remove your disk drive and attach
> > it to
> > > > the other computer and
> > > > copy the needed files (assuming that both are
> > > > running W2K or XP)? If the
> > > > file structure is not damaged this will work
> > > > perfectly and you'll still have
> > > > the disk to attempt recovery without fear that
> > > > you'll lose data.
> > > >
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