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To: Jon Tara who wrote (14089)	8/22/2003 11:14:16 PM
From: wily	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14778

No laptop experience here, but I'll just put in my 2c on backups: I like hard drives because they're fast and easy, especially if you have lots of Megabytes to backup. If it's a small amount of files CDRW is good—the drives and media are super cheap (700MB per $1 disc) and reasonably fast. The DVD drives are coming down in price and you can put 5GB on a 2 or 3 dollar disc. Make sure you get the good software, though—I think Nero is the good one (I've had problems with Roxio).

To: Jon Tara who wrote (14089)	8/25/2003 3:53:07 AM
From: August	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14778

* Data recovery from failed hard disk * Do any one know of a reputable hard disk recovery service? Thanks in advance. Jon, you discussed hard disk recovery a while back. I never thought it would happen to me, because I back up everything regularly. Last Friday disaster stroke. To make a long story short,one hard disk failed. I went to backup the 2nd hard disk, it failed shortly after the backup started. What happened was the software for Olympus digital camera send windows into a infinite loop of window dialogs. The dialog box just kept coming on and off the screen continuously. The program (which crashes all the time before) did not respond to any commands (including all kill commands including ctrl-alt-delete). There was no reboot button. Even the power button on the computer could not do the job. After 20 min, I had to turn off the power switch on the surge protector to try to reboot. None of my computers has been able to detect the presence of this hard disk since.