Re: Greg, Denver and Me - Shmucks!

On 1/2/2012 8:24 PM, hemyd wrote:
"Wes Groleau"<Groleau+news@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On 01-02-2012 16:40, Tiger Lily wrote:
On 1/2/2012 9:26 AM, Wes Groleau wrote:
On 01-02-2012 01:45, Tiger Lily wrote:
we never lack things to do, just TIME to do them in!

You always have time for what you do first.

(said the schmuck who's posting on Usenet instead of taking down the
Christmas tree or going out in the cold to return a non-working new disk
drive.)

ya, well, that's where some things look better to do than other things
LOL

And it turns out I continued dinking around on-line instead. But that's
because as I was packing up the drive, I realized that it wasn't 100%
unusable. It failed most of the time, but it actually had two complete
backups on it. So I had to hook it back up and do a full erase. Which
for this size of drive takes more than half a day.

--
Wes Groleau

"He that is good for making excuses
is seldom good for anything else."
-- Benjamin Franklin

It will take longer if it's faulty. A quicker method is to place it on a
concrete floor and jump on it severeal times. That's what we technicians
call a "low level format"

Henry.

All my obsolete and defective HDs receive a coup de grace from a sledgehammer
that assures not only the electronics are unusable but the disk(s)
inside are broken as well. It isn't paranoia, but having known several
people who went dumpster diving regularly.

a recognition that there's
.

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