[AT] computer problems

[George Willer]

Cecil,

I just received my new thumb drive yesterday and played with it a little. 
It's an amazing device!  They call it a thumb because of its' size.  It 
plugs into the slot on the back of your computer and becomes another drive. 
Why this is important (among other reasons) is that you can get one to copy 
all your files to and then remove it... and even carry it on your key chain. 
Now your backups are safe.

My son Joe introduced me to them when he was here for Christmas.  He showed 
my his that he says carries all the files for his universities web site, all 
the information for the radio station he manages, and all his personal files 
from several computers.  Just plug it in and go.

I've been moving hundreds of files to it from my PC and then plugging it in 
to my new laptop.  INCREDIBLE!

I just got a small one... 256 meg, and it only cost delivered about $80.

George Willer


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Cecil E Monson" <cmonson at hvc.rr.com>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Saturday, January 15, 2005 5:48 PM
Subject: [AT] computer problems


> I don't know if I mentioned this on the List or not but Tuesday
> of this week, we had a power outage where the power went off and then
> popped back on for a split second before going off again. The computer
> had just started to re-boot when it went off the second time.  It raised
> Cain with my computer and all I got when I tried to turn it on was
> first a blue HP screen, and then a black screen with the words "Operating 
> system not found". Not a good thing.
>
>      I found out in checking my manuals that XP Home has a partitioned
> drive and the boot recovery program is on the hard drive. XP Pro has a
> provision to boot from a disc but not XP Home. Oh, it comes from the
> factory supposedly with a disc but you never get it. Must have something
> to do with a bulk license to install XP or something.
>
> I had just about given up when my wife said she had heard that
> a young local guy was pretty good at restoring crashed computers and not
> too expensive. So, I called him and ended bringing him my computer this
> noon. He had it an hour and a quarter and called saying he got it to
> boot and was going to run it over the weekend to make sure it was OK.
>
> So, I got lucky this time. FWIW, I have a UPS power supply and
> had inadvertently mixed up the power cords for the monitor with the one
> for the computer several weeks ago and had no surge protection on the
> computer at all - just on the durn monitor. You can be sure it will be
> plugged in the right way when I get it back. Must be CRS setting in
> early.
>
> On a tractor note, I have all of my tractor photos and files
> on the second hard drive on this computer and it would have been a real
> blow to find out I lost them all. Like I said, I got lucky this time
> and everything is OK.
>
> Cecil
>
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