• © copyright 2010, Robert D. Barrett
    Photography,  Technology

    Storm Victim…

    Well. Seems like the storm the other night got another victim. It happens more often than you think when you leave your computer on all night without the benefit a UPS (Uninterupted Power Supply). Powerstrips don’t always protect as they should and hard drives can still be damaged by not being shut down properly. Image Copyright © 2009, Barrett Photo Art I tried everything with this one. Once it was determined the system would not boot, I reformatted it and ran some other tools on it. It…

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    Photography,  Technology

    Hard Drives…

    Did ya notice that once a hard drive goes bad there is not much you can do with it. Well… I decided to imortalize this one as it was such a good servant. (Backed up of course). Image Copyright © 2009, Barrett Photo Art. Well it appears that the little fella (SATA Laptop 250 gig hard drive) decided he would rather take it easy. Lay around. Copy half the data…lose the rest. More or less take a vacation. Image Copyright © 2009, Barrett Photo Art. I guess…