On Wed, 17 Mar 2021 12:03:07 GMT, Pamela >
wrote:

>On 22:04 16 Mar 2021, Mike Duffy said:
>> On Tue, 16 Mar 2021 06:11:14 -0700, Taxed and Spent wrote:
>>>
>>> usually when you take it to the shop they solution is to format
>>> the hard drive. Data? Not our problem.
>>
>> C'mon. You tell them you want the data. It's not a problem; it's
>> an opportunity. Then they can (for a fee) try changing the
>> on-board controller, if they can find an identical model where the
>> medium has failed. Then they can at least tell you definitively
>> that *your* medium has failed. You still don't have your data, but
>> now at least you know it is truly gone.
>
>That's getting advanced. John's "drive" is probably a partition on
>the same HDD.
>
>As this is XP, maybe it's been caused by someone or something
>jinxing the MPT entry in the MBR.

LOL. Yes, lets not bother with the more obvious, simper and more
common possible causes............ idiot.

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On 3/16/2021 7:44 AM, Sqwertz wrote:
> On Sun, 14 Mar 2021 19:39:08 -0700 (PDT), John Kuthe wrote:
>
>> I kid you NOT! The whole ****ing D: drive, an archive drive I kept safe from WinXP! Gone!
>>
>> Now I have to take my XP machine up to my fave Computer Shop to see if they can find it!
>>
>> I have the weirdest computer problems! :-(
>>
>> John Kuthe, RN, BSN...
>
> And you can't do even the most minimal debugging? Start in the
> BIOS...... Ahh, no, Just take it top the shop where they'll charge
> you all the paychecks you've made in the last 3 years. Yes, do that
> instead. Since you don't have friends that can help you.
>
He doesn't even have friends who *can't* help him. Considering his
tastes, one can only imagine what kind of data he might have on his D:
drive.
>
> -sw
>


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On 20:39 16 Mar 2021, BryanGSimmons said:
> On 3/16/2021 7:44 AM, Sqwertz wrote:
>> On Sun, 14 Mar 2021 19:39:08 -0700 (PDT), John Kuthe wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> I kid you NOT! The whole ****ing D: drive, an archive drive I
>>> kept safe from WinXP! Gone!
>>>
>>> Now I have to take my XP machine up to my fave Computer Shop to
>>> see if they can find it!
>>>
>>> I have the weirdest computer problems! :-(
>>>
>>> John Kuthe, RN, BSN...
>>
>> And you can't do even the most minimal debugging? Start in the
>> BIOS...... Ahh, no, Just take it top the shop where they'll
>> charge you all the paychecks you've made in the last 3 years.
>> Yes, do that instead. Since you don't have friends that can help
>> you.
>
> He doesn't even have friends who *can't* help him. Considering
> his tastes, one can only imagine what kind of data he might have
> on his D: drive.

Recipes and pictures of food perhaps.