On 3/17/2021 6:41 AM, Dave Smith wrote:
> On 2021-03-17 9:13 a.m., Taxed and Spent wrote:
>> On 3/17/2021 6:10 AM, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
>>> On Wednesday, March 17, 2021 at 8:50:57 AM UTC-4, wrote:
>>>> On Wednesday, March 17, 2021 at 7:03:14 AM UTC-5, Pamela wrote:
>>>> ...
>>>>> That's getting advanced. John's "drive" is probably a partition on
>>>>> the same HDD.
>>>> Yep, my D: drive is a Logical drive not a Physical drive. Window just
>>>> temporarily lost its pointer to it, but everything is OK with it now.
>>>
>>> So you really are trusting everything to a single hard drive without a
>>> backup.
>>>
>>> Cindy Hamilton
>>>
>>
>>
>> A VP at Apple told a friend she should buy a Mac so she shouldn't need
>> to make backups because Apple hard drives never fail.
>
> Nice of him to be loyal to his brand, but I had to check it out. A quick
> online search located many sites with instructions on how to recover
> failed Mac hard drives. I don't know why there would be so many if they
> never failed.
>


You had to look? I laughed my head off when she told me, and I told her
such were the reasons I never buy Apple products.