To anyone that owns a Jaz drive:
Well, it finally happened: Early Sunday morning, I was faxing some guy's resume to a business associate and the Procomm-induced fax/modem call didn't go through. My Windows locked up, and I had to reboot. When I have to reboot out of Windows, I usually CHKDSK /F, and sure enough, it found some crosslinked files. No big deal right?
Usually not, but this time there were so many crosslinked files that I had to CHKDSK 4 times, I think, because each time I ran CHKDSK, there were so many crosslinked files that my root directory's FAT entries were exhausted, reaching the maximum number of root directory entries each time.
I'll spare you the rest of the grisly details, but to make a long story short, I ended up losing about 90% of my data, including my Quicken financial databases. Spent all day Sunday trying desperately to reconstruct stuff. My Colorado 250 tape drive wasn't any help, since most everytime I try and use that damn thing, it locks my system up in the middle of the backup for no apparent reason. Even Quicken's internal datafile backup didn't work, since IT'S backups were corrupted too.
Anyway, I've been wanting a Jaz drive for some time now, and last weekend's cute little episode taught me that it's time now to buy one. Question is: Where did you find yours? I'm getting prices for externals in the $610-$640 range. I have a friend going to University of Texas at Austin, and there's a place there that sells 1 Gig disks for $100 (www.mc.utexas.edu/prices/pricelist.html), and he can get them for me. I've also read good and bad reviews about them (check out ourworld.compuserve.com for an interesting one) and would like anyone's opinion of the setup/technical support. I worry that I'll be left in the dark if I have any problems with it. Any opinions would be greatly appreciated.
The only thing that's brightened my mood lately is Monday's stock price. $66/share. Who would have known?
Thanks in advance! - Steve |
