I have the C boot drive which is a SSD, but only 500G, my D drive, which holds everything and is 1 TB and the drive that died, and drive F which is a 2T hot-swap backup drive. D no longer shows up in Windows Explore or the Disk Manager. I'm hoping it's a faulty/dirty connector which I will check when I tear the system down later today. If that doesn't work, how long in the fridge? If that fails, I'll go over to Al's and put it in an old system he has and see if that controller can find it. If that doesn't work, I've lost a tremendous amount of non-T41 stuff and I'll start shopping for a large pile of kindling and a very flammable Viking ship.
Jack, W8TEE
On Friday, February 21, 2025 at 12:18:23 PM EST, jerry-KF6VB <jerry@...> wrote:
On 2025-02-21 06:47, jjpurdum via groups.io wrote:
> Also, I have other distractions now. At some time yesterday my main > data drive died
*** That sucks.? Did it die completely, or just lose data?? Sometimes they can be read by putting the drive in the fridge.
? I have a unique system.? I don't keep anything important on my desktop PC.? Instead, I have a Linux server running the Samba suite that acts as a windows fileserver.? I actually have three of those servers;? two active, and the third being upgraded to a newer Linux.? Also, I do an encrypted incremental backup to the cloud once a week.? The server in use backs itself up to the second hot server every night.
? So far, I've been lucky.? Have had some close calls, but never lost it all. My email queue goes back to 1989!? Back then I didn't have real Internet.? My PC ran a program called "UUPC" that dialed up another computer and transferred mail and netnews via the UUCP protocol.? I had it on a 24 hour timer.? In the middle of the night, it would come on for a few hours.? UUPC was in the autoexec.bat.
jjpurdum