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Article #88Re: 500 GB WD My Book external H/D suddenly not wanting to fire up
From: Franc Zabkar
Date: Tue, 07 Apr 2009 06:17
Date: Tue, 07 Apr 2009 06:17
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On Mon, 6 Apr 2009 19:24:57 +0000 (UTC), thanatoid <waiting@the.exit.invalid> put finger to keyboard and composed: >"Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> wrote in >news:73u1q1F108uadU1@mid.individual.net: > >> thanatoid wrote: > ><SNIP> > >>> HD's fail, especially external ones (3x the price for the >>> $10 Chinese box and a $2 Chinese power adapter with the >>> same drive inside that you could have put inside you >>> machine). >>> >>> DVD's (or expensive tape drives used by corporations) are >>> the only way to backup safely. >> >> Wrong, as always. > >MOST interesting comment from someone with a 13-year old's >nickname (if it's your /real name/, my deepest sympathies) who >(to my recollection) has never posted ANY advice, and who uses >OE for newsgroups. > >I am often wrong, and have no problem with admitting it when I >am corrected by someone who knows what they're talking about. > >But NO ONE is ALWAYS wrong or ALWAYS right - including you. > >Now go fuck yourself. Rod Speed FAQ: http://newsgroups.derkeiler.com/Archive/Alt/alt.internet.wireless/2006-07/msg00462.html RodBot 2.5 is a Perl program designed to simulate the UseNet posting style of the mental giant that is Rod Speed: http://web.archive.org/web/20020207012848/http://www.penninkilampi.net/henry/Perl/RodBot.html - Franc Zabkar -- Please remove one 'i' from my address when replying by email.
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X-Google-Thread: f5f89,5105a57d261025a1 X-Google-Thread: faa3c,5105a57d261025a1 X-Google-Thread: f4d7c,5105a57d261025a1 X-Google-Attributes: gidf5f89,gidfaa3c,gidf4d7c,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!g2news1.google.com!news2.google.com!newshub.sdsu.edu!news.astraweb.com!border5.newsrouter.astraweb.com!not-for-mail From: Franc Zabkar <fzabkar@iinternode.on.net> Newsgroups: alt.comp.hardware,24hoursupport.helpdesk,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage Subject: Re: 500 GB WD My Book external H/D suddenly not wanting to fire up Date: Tue, 07 Apr 2009 16:17:25 +1000 Organization: Bachelor Life Ltd Reply-To: fzabkar@iinternode.on.net Message-ID: <m66lt4lcnho1bmncsho06flfbsohtn2531@4ax.com> References: <807ac7a0-4fce-414a-a3db-f8884fef9bcc@f19g2000yqo.googlegroups.com> <Xns9BE53062318D0thanexit@85.214.105.209> <73u1q1F108uadU1@mid.individual.net> <Xns9BE592C30C9C9thanexit@85.214.105.209> X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 3.3/32.846 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 42 NNTP-Posting-Host: a2e2d576.news.astraweb.com X-Trace: DXC=T<QSX[AU2d9B;RYi]PcMG9L?0kYOcDh@:l@eKhX@@^e67MW>UB@=5>>K=1]?WG_6A7<jMl=nc\W;;