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Old 08-02-2007, 04:18 PM
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Thanks for the info. I definitely need to get the imaging software if I intend to keep this older machine for awhile.

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Old 08-02-2007, 04:43 PM
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Can your MB boot from this external drive? If so, you are golden.

Well, it can serve as data recovery.

I got a call from a RN that was writing up a huge document for the last 6 hrs and this was at 2100 hrs. There was no way in hell the computer would be unlocked. Not even the "3 finger salute" would work. Told her she had to reboot and hard. "Would I lose everything?" she says? "Only what you were working on since the last save". You could have heard a pin drop. This was something that was needed for a lawsuit the next morning and she hasn't saved it at all. She wanted another opinion. We called 3 other techs and none of them could help.

Moral of the story. Backup 1 min less than what you can spare time redoing. If you can spare 15 minutes to redo your work, back up every 14
if it was a document in a major word processor, it should have autosaved every 10 minutes or so... should be golden. IF the system could have been restarted...
what kind of id10t types a legal paper for HOURS without saving?
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Old 08-02-2007, 04:51 PM
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if it was a document in a major word processor, it should have autosaved every 10 minutes or so... should be golden. IF the system could have been restarted...
what kind of id10t types a legal paper for HOURS without saving?
I think it was a program that had autosave but you have to activate it. She didn't. Yes, the system could be restarted but all was lost since she didn't autosave it.

The kind that pokes at you with needles and sticks a catheter up your you know what. She was an RN

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