HI Don. Great post and thanks for the time to do it.



Sorry to hear about data lose, bit by bit recovery is grossly overpriced.



This week or 2 has been a great history lesson in corns. I was just never into corns, so I did not follow them.



Sad that it has to be over these terms.



Thanks tom

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Yeah, I wasn't backed up as much as I should have been. Over 50,000 snake pictures on that drive. I'm just about to wrap up my corn snake book and was grabbing lots of wires behind the computer to take one of the externals with me. I pulled the wires up and the drive got up to my knee level before falling to the concrete floor. By slaving it to four other computers, I was able to see the folders, but not allowed to open them. I jacked around with the jumpers and mastered it to a few of the computers and eventually, I was unable to even see the folders. Called around, knowing I'm one of those guys they dream of. Like the guy that tells you a new transmission is needed on your car. Whaddya do? Ya go for it. Well, $950.00 plus shipping is a relatively small amount to pay for retrieving all those data. I have much of it backed up on DVDs, but you can imagine how many of those it took over the years to put 248 gb of data aside. Of course, there's no way to catalog that so I just decided it was best to let them do it. Shrug? At least I know I'm getting it all back. Had to send them a 300 gb drive to put it on, but I need more of those anyway. I'm excited that the new DVDs are out. What are they? Something like 30 or 40 gb on one disk. Yeehaw. Handy back up system there.



Sorry to stray from the subject, but we can all use another reminder that we don't back up enough or properly.



Don

www.cornsnake.NET
South Mountain Reptiles

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