OK - hands up those of you who hadn't a clue what I was talking about when I said I needed a 2.5inch IDE to USB adapter ! The picture above shows what I was looking for.
Fortunately, through this very blog, one of my regular readers, who lives not a million miles from here was able to get hold of one for me. Thanks, Peter!
Good news is that I managed to access the church laptop's hard disk drive using another PC. Even better news is that none of the data was lost. Best news of all, is that I was able to repair it without any specialist software! Now the laptop is working again. Yesssss...
Of course it may only be a temporary reprieve, and so I am going to be very careful about backing up files from now on.
Nobody is stupid enough not to back up their computer files surely? Ahem...
Of course, I didn't expect this sort of disaster to happen to me...
I was just going to get round to it when...
I always meant to do it, but I never seemed to have the time... etc. etc.
I wish I could say I have learned my lesson... again...
but the trouble with many of the lessons I learn through life is that I seem to forget them again very quickly... and not just when it comes to backing up a pc.
1 comment:
Iain, do you think the memory loss has anything to do with age? Of course I'm talking about the church laptop - not you! Technology - a blessing and a bane.
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