MEMORY needs PRAYER, due to CRASH

[Gina Stevenson]

Yes, it's not my computer memory that's in trouble this time, but due to my computer's crash, mine is! Lost tons of book editing already done, so will have to grab manuscript, start over, and pray I can do as close to same edits as I'd already done ... but in less time, too! Doggone! Not sure what's going on, but I had a crash several days ago (late Friday, early Saturday), got back up Tuesday afternoon, but crashed again already Tuesday night! HELP!

'Guess I'll have to do saves every hour to CD, rather than after a day's worth of work, so as to not lose tons at once (didn't even save before that Friday crash, so when I got back up had to do recovery editing, and then yesterday's catch-up was lost again.

What's crazy, is that the CD says I only last saved one thing 15 September. I know I've saved some things to a CD that won't let one rewrite on it, either, since 15 September. :o( Not sure what's going on.

Thanks much! Nearly seems as if something's working against helping someone get this book out, and it's a good one, too. Can almost forget I'm supposed to be editing sometimes, getting caught up in the story.

[Barb Bouldrey]

I wondered where you have been.

Barb

[Gord Evans]

'Guess I'll have to do saves every hour to CD, rather than after a day's worth of work, so as to not lose tons at once (didn't even save before that Friday crash, so when I got back up had to do recovery editing, and then yesterday's catch-up was lost again.

What's crazy, is that the CD says I only last saved one thing 15 September. I know I've saved some things to a CD that won't let one rewrite on it, either, since 15 September. :o( Not sure what's going on.


Gina, you should invest in a "memory stick" if you have a USB port on your computer. I bought one a few weeks ago that will store 2 Gb of "stuff" on it, like a portable disk drive. Much better than burning a CD every time you want to store something off your computer.

I paid $48 at the store but it came with a $25 mail-in rebate. The net cost for a 2 GB storage device was $23. "Best Buy" seems to have deals on these things every week.

I'm sorry you're having the struggles you're having with your computer, and I truly understand the frustration. I use my computer in my business, too!

However, this may be a simple and reasonably priced solution for your current struggles, to hold you over until you decide to upgrade your computer or memory.

You also might want to consider storing your "created files" on a CD, then re-formatting your hard-drive so you can start fresh with your operating system and application software. Corruption takes place over time.

If you were to do this, you could use an application called "Ghost" to make a copy of your pristine hard-drive once it is re-formatted and your basic operating software applications re-installed. That way, the "next time", the starting-over process would be less intense and cumbersome. You store the "Ghost" in a partitioned (D-drive) portion of your hard drive. The "Ghost" software that I know about is from Norton.

Norton Ghost overview (http://www.symantec.com/home_homeoffice/products/overview.jsp?pcid=br&pvid=ghost10)

Also, consider having your your memory chips checked. They also fail from time-to-time.

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[Gina Stevenson]

memory keeps getting cheaper & cheaper & cheaper, doesn't it? How-long ago, I paid something like $20+ for 512MB, now you have 2GIG for just $23!? Oh, man! What's crazy is that the 512MB I have should have plenty of room to store these things, but I'd kept putting off, thinking, I'll store later, because I always had to DELETE what was on it to resave, then it would say, "too big for recycle bin; still want to delete?"

Well, just in case it crashed in the process, didn't really want to go beyond the recycle bin for deletions!

NOW, the crazy thing tells me -- once I'd figured how to get into the secured part of it, which was the bigger part (about 95% of the entire little drive), it now says it's "READ ONLY," suddenly. Hey! Why can't it just ask me for the password for the secured part (not "public" that the wee part now is), and LET me back into it? Then I could save many times, #'ing the saves, before having to DUMP, as I do from the "public" portion, that is barely 22-23MB.

Thanks, Gord, anyway, for the tip-off. Having gotten back INTO my jump drive (memory stick) after the first crash, why can't I get back into it after the 2nd crash!? :o( Really getting bummed here.



Gina, you should invest in a "memory stick" if you have a USB port on your computer. I bought one a few weeks ago that will store 2 Gb of "stuff" on it, like a portable disk drive. Much better than burning a CD every time you want to store something off your computer.

I paid $48 at the store but it came with a $25 mail-in rebate. The net cost for a 2 GB storage device was $23. "Best Buy" seems to have deals on these things every week.

I'm sorry you're having the struggles you're having with your computer, and I truly understand the frustration. I use my computer in my business, too!

However, this may be a simple and reasonably priced solution for your current struggles, to hold you over until you decide to upgrade your computer or memory.

You also might want to consider storing your "created files" on a CD, then re-formatting your hard-drive so you can start fresh with your operating system and application software. Corruption takes place over time.

If you were to do this, you could use an application called "Ghost" to make a copy of your pristine hard-drive once it is re-formatted and your basic operating software applications re-installed. That way, the "next time", the starting-over process would be less intense and cumbersome. You store the "Ghost" in a partitioned (D-drive) portion of your hard drive. The "Ghost" software that I know about is from Norton.

Norton Ghost overview (http://www.symantec.com/home_homeoffice/products/overview.jsp?pcid=br&pvid=ghost10)

Also, consider having your your memory chips checked. They also fail from time-to-time.

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[Mark Bolerjack]

Can you just re-format your jump drive? I did that with mine over the weekend after writing Kingston support, and now it works ok. I had some files that were corrupted and had weird symbols as file names. I also have a 512 gig drive. 3-4 months ago I paid $27 for it.

[Gina Stevenson]

KNOW what? A couple of times when I went into "FORMAT," what the silly thing did was only acknowledge the one part of it, the tiny, about 5% part.

Something fishy about these things sometimes, perhaps? ;o\


Can you just re-format your jump drive? I did that with mine over the weekend after writing Kingston support, and now it works ok. I had some files that were corrupted and had weird symbols as file names. I also have a 512 gig drive. 3-4 months ago I paid $27 for it.

[Jeremy D. Scott]

memory keeps getting cheaper & cheaper & cheaper, doesn't it? How-long ago, I paid something like $20+ for 512MB, now you have 2GIG for just $23!? Oh, man! What's crazy is that the 512MB I have should have plenty of room to store these things, but I'd kept putting off, thinking, I'll store later, because I always had to DELETE what was on it to resave, then it would say, "too big for recycle bin; still want to delete?"

Talk about cheap...breaking this down, it's about $2.50 for a gig.

[Gina Stevenson]

Talk about cheap...breaking this down, it's about $2.50 for a gig.

OK, so MB = megabytes, GB = gigabytes, and this new thing you show here that's TB = oh, yeah, tuberculosis! HA! Actually, what is it? Trillabyte, or something to do with a trillion?? Haven't seen that anywhere yet.

[Jeremy D. Scott]

OK, so MB = megabytes, GB = gigabytes, and this new thing you show here that's TB = oh, yeah, tuberculosis! HA! Actually, what is it? Trillabyte, or something to do with a trillion?? Haven't seen that anywhere yet.

TB = terabyte

I believe it's 1000 GB and a gigabyte is 1000 MB. So basically...you'd better have a really long book to fill up this thing.

[David Cash]

Probably the IT people here will know better, but it might be worth contacting a computer professional. There's might be a chance that he or she could recover some of your data.

David Cash

[Stan Hall]

1kb = Kilobyte = 1000 (10^3) (thousand) bytes
1Mb = Megabyte = 1000 kb = 1,000,000 (10^6) (Million) bytes
1Gb = Gigabyte = 1000 Mb = 1,000,000 kb = 1,000,000,000 (10^9) (Billion) bytes
1Tb = Terabyte = 1000 Gb = 1,000,000 Mb = 1,000,000,000 kb = 1,000,000,000,000 (10^12) (Trillion) bytes.

If you were to spend a dollar per second, 24/7/365, it would take 31,688 years to spend a trillion dollars. (That's one TeraDollar) (It takes our government about a month and a half!)