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That is why I always back up my computer with either zip files or with my new Iomega Peerless drive. With all the files I keep (and recently lost due to an earthquake) and download I need to keep them in something more durable and shock resistant to falling debris.
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I really must get round to installing my Zip drive.
Last place I worked, we were looking at a failure rate of about 10% over three years. Not sure whether that's good or not; but our pile of duff HDs grew so large I packed them all up in a box and couriered them to Hewlett Packard UK's head office with a nasty letter. Didn't get a reply. . .
"...I think I got some kind of virus or something when my daughter downloaded KAZAA."
One could, of course, make the arguement that KaZaA itself is a virus, but the idea that it was used to d/l one, or that it d/l'ed one itself, is not out of the realm of possibility...
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I'm having a problem with my printer. It's a HP Deskjet 690C and I've had it for about 3 - 3.5 years. It was working fine a week or two ago but now it keeps saying that my ink cartridges are incorrectly installed and keeps screwing up. I've taken the cartridges out, cleaned the contacts on them and in the printer, cleared all the ink, dirt, dust etc from where I can get access but still it doesn't like me.
Anyone know what's up with it. My parents have an older HP printer that's close to death at 10 years old, but it still works . . .
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Sorry about the loss, CC. I had a HD go about 2 weeks back. Fortunately the drives are getting so cheap now, that I had recently upgraded and had backups, but it still sucked ass.
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Yeah, sorry to hear about your trouble too CC, guess it's kinda pot luck as to what you get. Hope the data loss ain't too extreme for ya and you get back on track soon.
Just remembered the reason for my recent upgrade - the motherboard died on me. (It was about 3 years old, and a real crappy thing ).
Motherboards, HDDs, printers, monitors, ram, cd-roms, DVDs, floppies . . . anyone else lost in this world of ever evolving technology.
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Don't forget those of us with spontaneously shattering PDA screens...
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A friend of mine has a pooched HD, too. And his computer is only a few months old... half a year at most. He was trying to copy a CD for his sister and everything went to hell. His drive went from a 20 GB to a 2 GB, inexplicably.
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I feel really sorry for all you guys. My computer is almost 4 years old (yeah, you read correctly), and I haven't had any major problems on it. Plus my printer is probably near ten years old and also no problems. The only problems I've had are the standard Windows crashes, a cd-rom drive that no longer opened 'cause I never let it fully open before closing it, and a cd burner that no longer burned 'cause it was a refurbished drive and was probably fucked up anyway, and one last cd-rom drive that longer reads 'cause the lens probably was moving back and forth too much. But like I said no major problems.
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Ah... the wonders of RAID
Nothing beats a 2 * 120GB drive redundancy.
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A friend of mine has a pooched HD, too. And his computer is only a few months old... half a year at most. He was trying to copy a CD for his sister and everything went to hell. His drive went from a 20 GB to a 2 GB, inexplicably.
If that's a measure of his available space, tell him to check his Windows/Temp directory. I just fried it and freed up half my hard drive.
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quote:Originally posted by Omega: Don't forget those of us with spontaneously shattering PDA screens...
Oh yes, we mustn't forget such people - it would be a crime.
Oh yeah, found out last night, with my Dad's help (he's kewl), that my printer is just shot & has gone kaput! So I went to PC World and got a brand new HP Deskjet 940C - HOT DAMN IT'S FAST!!!! Not to mention quiet and excellent printing quality.
I also took the liberty of getting an upgrade to Norton SystemsWorks 2002 and also purchased Norton Personal Firewall too (the family is thinking of getting into Internet banking & shopping, so we're going halves on the price - not bad at �19.99).
All in all, not a bad day. Then I remembered that I'm going back to university tomorrow.
Oh well . . .
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My 2-yr-old PC is working okay except the Internet connection died on me. We used to have a Cannon printer that lasted a two, three trying years before it went kaput. Now I use a Lexmark, which is 3-4 years old and still going strong. Never had much problems with it either, a blessing for anyone who writes papers.
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