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Re: @@@ BACKUP your files NOW !!!!! @@@

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From: Phil Essing
Date: Thu, 22 Oct 1998 00:00
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The subject matter in your post is not appropriate for this newsgroup.

-Phil




Masataka Noda wrote in message <362f77fb.397643@news.sprint.ca>...
>Hi.   I recently had a serious problem with my computer.
>
>Today, when I was removing the explorer 4.01, suddently
>(coincidentally ?), my hard drive stopped.   alt+del+ctrl didn't work.
>I rebooted the computer and my eyes went blank... "Failed Fixed Disk
>0"...  christ !!!!  Rebooting the computer again and I forced to
>reboot from hard drive and I got got the message "Operating System Not
>Found."     shi* !       I inserted the floopy disk and if floppy disk
>worked fine.   It worked.   I typed "c:\"  and didn't work.   My brain
>went completely blank when I realized I didn't take backup of most of
>the files for 3~4 months... tried to take back up just a couple of
>days ago but I didn't do it just because...   you know what I mean.
>
>Am I able to survive without computer for a day ??   Of course not.
>HELL NO !!!!!  I was thinking of sending this computer to get it fix
>it... but this takes too much time.  Is it possible to buy a new
>computer ?  Well... I am running out of money.       Will I have days
>without posting articles into mtl.general and some others ??    No way
>!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>
>
>
>... like I said usual... I was sure I could do something for this
>problem WITHOUT having a university degree - bachelor of engineering
>or whatever.   So... I opened up the box (which was screwed with more
>than 10 nails) and saw if anything was funny... (it is not very easy
>to see the system inside since it is a laptop. everything is packed
>very tightly)...    hard drive seemed to be ok... but how could I
>check the inside of HDD...     one of the plate says QC passed in
>1986...  well... was it because of age ??  uhh....   my mind was
>crazy... not knowing what to do.   I almost completely separeted the
>entire unit...   and umm... I saw something... one of three lines
>(it's like the lines connected to internal HDD of desktop but the
>scale is much smaller and it looks like a piece of plastic... 0.5cm
>width) is not hooked up.   Well... I saw the black stripes at the end
>but I didn't see same thing for other two.   Well... maybe this was
>special and shouldn't be connected.   Wait a minute... I saw an empty
>plug...   "maybe this stuff would fit here..."    In fact it did.
>But which direction it should be ?   I had to bet.  Oh God...
>
>I rebooted my computer...   no error messages !!!!!!!!
>fuh..........ha...............hahahahahaaaaaaaaaaaaaa...............
>I made it... although I failed to remove explorer completely (ironic
>?)...   anyways... I took the backup... and everything became fine as
>usual.
>
>I strongly suggest you to take backups... I was too lazy to take it
>but if you had backup... you wouldn't be in hell when something
>happened to your computer...
>
>So... in any cases...   I would like to say to myself... welcome back
>to newsgroups !!!!
>
>
>Regards,
>
>
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>
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From: "Phil Essing" <phile@generation.net>
Subject: Re: @@@ BACKUP your files NOW !!!!! @@@
Date: 1998/10/22
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