At 07:15 AM Friday 3/24/2006, Alberto Monteiro wrote:
I give up.
My backup HD is fully readable and writable from Linux, all
auxiliary windoze programs can read it, but evil windoze itself
keeps giving me the stupid and meaningless error
"Data error (cyclic redundancy check)".
I have lost too much time. Time to F&R.
But since I will waste precious time with (mini-)backup, F,
and R, I will change the crappy HD for something more decent.
Any ideas about good HDs?
So far so good with these two Hitachi 500GB drives I installed last
fall. If you have lots of space-hogging files (or just don't want to
run out of space anytime soon), I can recommend them. I've also had
good luck with the Maxtor drives I've bought and installed myself
(currently running a 300GB I bought last year and the 80GB one I took
out of the old machine which I had been using since IIRC spring of
2001 and had most of the stuff I used in astronomy classes for those
4 years or so). OTOH, IIRC the two primary drives which came with
machines and later failed (the last one within a week) were also
Maxtor, FWIW . . .
--Ronn! :)
"Since I was a small boy, two states have been added to our country
and two words have been added to the pledge of Allegiance... UNDER
GOD. Wouldn't it be a pity if someone said that is a prayer and that
would be eliminated from schools too?"
-- Red Skelton
(Someone asked me to change my .sig quote back, so I did.)
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