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The woes of losing a hard drive…
It could have been worse I suppose. Last Friday one of my external hard drives became corrupted and it was impossible to read files from it or communicate with it. After several abortive attempts to read the data from it, John eventually resorted to the Windows checkdisk utility which was all very well and it did find tens of thousands of images and file fragments but it renamed them all so that they were not easily identifiable. We all know that eventually it’s going to happen! As sure as eggs is eggs a hard drive will eventually fail and it never picks the most convenient time to do it. What…
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A testimony to how otherwise occupied I’ve been this year – I missed posting altogether in October and November. Hopefully am now back on course with some new work. A Scary one!
