Computer help needed

McD · Post by **McD** » August 13th, 2004, 3:09 am

After loosing a bunch of stuff a few years ago not only do I back up to a CD periodically I also installed another hard drive. Makes it real easy to save a copy of important stuff. It is about half the size of my main HD but I use it only as a backup disk... no applications installed.

AngryPistols · Post by **AngryPistols** » August 24th, 2004, 1:14 am

McD wrote:After loosing a bunch of stuff a few years ago not only do I back up to a CD periodically I also installed another hard drive. Makes it real easy to save a copy of important stuff. It is about half the size of my main HD but I use it only as a backup disk... no applications installed.

Ranger BadMuther,

I agree with Ranger McD with this interesting tidbit.

Take a look at an external USB harddrive. I have one called a Lacie and it has 80 GB of storage. http://www.lacie.com/products/product.htm?id=10097 I think that it ran about $120 online(our IT guy bought it for me)

I know this is 'after-the-fact'

, however, I hope it will serve to help in the future.

Angry

BadMuther · Post by **BadMuther** » August 24th, 2004, 3:47 am

AngryPistols wrote:
McD wrote:After loosing a bunch of stuff a few years ago not only do I back up to a CD periodically I also installed another hard drive. Makes it real easy to save a copy of important stuff. It is about half the size of my main HD but I use it only as a backup disk... no applications installed.
Ranger BadMuther,

I agree with Ranger McD with this interesting tidbit.

Take a look at an external USB harddrive. I have one called a Lacie and it has 80 GB of storage. http://www.lacie.com/products/product.htm?id=10097 I think that it ran about $120 online(our IT guy bought it for me)

I know this is 'after-the-fact' , however, I hope it will serve to help in the future.

Angry

That's a good idea...I also have a lot of stuff saved to a zip drive.

Spartan · Post by **Spartan** » August 24th, 2004, 7:18 am

BadMuther wrote:That's a good idea...I also have a lot of stuff saved to a zip drive.

Iomega makes some external USB2 + Firewire drives also. The thing is, make sure you can get one that does not require installing a fucking driver if you can. If you do, then when you most need that data, you'll have to go chasing down the driver for the drive before you can use it.

AngryPistols · Post by **AngryPistols** » August 24th, 2004, 8:05 am

Spartan wrote:...The thing is, make sure you can get one that does not require installing a fucking driver if you can. If you do, then when you most need that data, you'll have to go chasing down the driver for the drive before you can use it.

Good point Ranger Spartan.

BadMuther · Post by **BadMuther** » August 31st, 2004, 1:36 pm

Got a new hardrive, installed the mofo, and I am up and running on the desktop.

Thanks everyone for their help-especially BBug, who can hopefully save my porn!

Spartan · Post by **Spartan** » August 31st, 2004, 1:38 pm

BadMuther wrote:Got a new hardrive, installed the mofo, and I am up and running on the desktop.

Thanks everyone for their help-especially BBug, who can hopefully save my porn!

But, do you have an external back-up drive now also??

Bugsy · Post by **Bugsy** » August 31st, 2004, 4:09 pm

BadMuther wrote:Got a new hardrive, installed the mofo, and I am up and running on the desktop.

Thanks everyone for their help-especially BBug, who can hopefully save my porn!

Porn!?! I unfortunately was unable to save any of your Porn, I recovered your financial info, tax info for the last 15 years, pictures of your entire family cataloged by age, date and relation (since the mayflower), first letter you wrote to your wife after you got outta hooah school, emails/letters from your mom and dad, the only remaining picture of your Great Grandfather in World War One right before the great victory on the Western Front, the last and only baby picture of your first child, your last will and testament, stocks & bonds, and the last remaining Cyber Copy of the Dead Sea Scrolls signed by the Apostle John himself......... but sorry I didn't find ANY PORN WHAT-SO-EVER. :)

Good thing too cause we wouldn't want to have that stuff get into the wrong "hand" I mean Hands now would we

Spartan · Post by **Spartan** » September 1st, 2004, 4:17 am

Anyone here use McAfee Security Center? I do and found it stopping me from right-mouseclicking to save images from my browser - unless there is a Mozilla setting that can restrict this.

Anyone run into this?