This has not been the week for computer hardware at the House of Law. As mentioned before, Brian’s laptop hard drive died over the weekend. He took it to a company that does data recovery, but they were not able to do anything with it. Someone he works with has done data recovery before, so he’s going to take a look at it tomorrow. But we’re not holding out much hope.
After that debacle, we thought it might be a good idea to get an external hard drive in order to facilitate backups. Circuit City has a deal where they’re practically giving them away, so we picked one up there yesterday. I got it set up in a matter of minutes and started backing up files. The copying of files was going to take a while so I went upstairs to do some other stuff. After a bit, I went back downstairs to check on the progress and some sort of error had occurred. After this point, I was not able to see the hard drive on either of our computers. And, to top things off, the power button would only turn the unit on, not off. So, I went back to Circuit City today and exchanged the defective drive for a new one. I’m currently attempting another backup. Hopefully this time it will work.
So, if you are having computer problems this week, don’t ask me for help.