10-07-2004, 10:41 AM
Partial success 
I won the auction on E-bay for the HDD from Germany and while I was in Cambridge it arrived but unfortunately they sent me the wrong model. So I had to ship that back and got the proper one on Thursday
I managed to transfer 27 GB before it just stopped, me thinks it over heated... I waited till it cooled down and was able to transfer another 11 GB before it started making funny noises
So I've salvaged all my downloaded music and movies and the pictures from my digicam as well as the old scanned analogue ones
Now sometimes CMOS finds it and it gets stuck when window$ loads and sometimes it just makes funny noises and CMOS gets stuck.
I suppose I should be overjoyed that I've managed to salvage so much but I am hoping for it to work for just 15 mins more so that I can get my programs as well as my e-mails and address book transferred too...
The rest of the data on there I am not too worried about as that is just a back-up of around 60 SA cd's which I can always back up again, though it is time consuming...
So wish me luck as I try to recover the rest of my stuff
I won the auction on E-bay for the HDD from Germany and while I was in Cambridge it arrived but unfortunately they sent me the wrong model. So I had to ship that back and got the proper one on Thursday
I managed to transfer 27 GB before it just stopped, me thinks it over heated... I waited till it cooled down and was able to transfer another 11 GB before it started making funny noises
So I've salvaged all my downloaded music and movies and the pictures from my digicam as well as the old scanned analogue ones
Now sometimes CMOS finds it and it gets stuck when window$ loads and sometimes it just makes funny noises and CMOS gets stuck.
I suppose I should be overjoyed that I've managed to salvage so much but I am hoping for it to work for just 15 mins more so that I can get my programs as well as my e-mails and address book transferred too...
The rest of the data on there I am not too worried about as that is just a back-up of around 60 SA cd's which I can always back up again, though it is time consuming...
So wish me luck as I try to recover the rest of my stuff