Don't breathe easy yet. This was not much of a test. You need to do a
file-by-file, bit-by-bit compare. If you had two duplicate CD's (you do
have two or three identical copies don't you?) you could run a
comparison between them. But since you still have the data on the hard
disk you could do the compare that way. If you don't have comparison
software one of the best around is Beyond Compare. $30 personal ver.
<http://www.scootersoftware.com/download.php> 30 day free evaluation.
Chuck Norcutt
Bob Whitmire wrote:
> Well, you guys just gave me a nice scare. Well, you guys and my CD-DVD
> drive. So I'm reading all this stuff about backup, and the dangers inherent
> in cheap CDs and DVDs (Mine are Staples brand), and I'm thinking I might be
> in deep do-do. At the moment everything is also on my HD, but if that goes
> then it's the CDs and DVDs that will save me.
>
> So I pulled out my oldest CD, which is about 3 years old, to see if the
> image was still accessible. Loaded it in the drive, which whirred
> incessantly, and then stopped. No picture. Windows Explorer didn't even
> acknowledge that there was a file on the CD. Hell, it didn't acknowledge
> there was a freaking CD. Mild panic. I took the CD downstairs to Esteemed
> Wife's computer. Loaded up the CD. Phew! It took forever, but Mickeysoft
> Imaging finally showed me the image on the CD.
>
> Which brings me to my question. Say I'm about 90 percent sure I'm going to
> switch to Apple. You Mac-heads out there got any recommendations for
> external hard drives to daisy-chain? I'm not looking for the gold standard.
> Don't have the cash to buy a computer _and_ a one of those 2TB Raid arrays.
> But a couple of, say 250GB external drives ought to do me for a while.
>
> Recommendations appreciated.
>
> --Bob
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