People who really are really careful carry a lap top and then burn a
backup copy on CD or DVD when going portable because that hard disk
could fail too. I take a chance because I am a bit lazy and I carry
one of the so called picture wallets, a FlashTrax 40Gig and risk the
possible loss of pictures from a single trip. If I had not already
made that choice I would get one of the much spiffier Epson P-2000s.
At home, I have chosen the hard drive back up of the hard drive
solution both because of the ease of doing it and all the reports of
CD-R failure. As far as I know recordable DVDs use a similar
technology and are unreliable too.
Winsor
Long Beach, California, USA
On Jun 14, 2005, at 8:55 PM, NSURIT@xxxxxxx wrote:
>
> The magician says it is a mechanical malfunction and there are
> companies
> which both he and Microsoft suggested could take it apart and
> likely recover the
> images. In the mean time, I'm having a new 320 gb installed and
> will start
> backing up to the external drive as soon as I get the computer back.
>
> Perhaps what I need to do is get a portable writer to download my
> CF onto as
> I fill them up, then load those into my photo files on my computer
> and then
> back up to my external. Would that do it? What device would write
> to a DVD or
> something that would hold 2 gb?
>
> Bill "keeping his fingers crossed" Barber
>
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