I hate to ask this, but I would like to request something of you out
there who have read my rambles over the years. I have experienced some
serious hard drive problems of late and the 398 essays that I had
already copied and sent to myself over the course of the last two years
has been lost completely. All I'm asking is if you have any of my
writings (rambles)saved to e-mail them to me. And before you say to go
to the archives and rec.gardening, I have, and I am. It's slow going. I
had enough to do one book, and there are enough rambles and pieces to
make two or three books! I am serious about this now. If there is no
one out there who has any writings or rambles I understand. I'm facing
LOTS of research and transfer time to replace what I so painstakingly
had gathered up (and it wasn't a drop in the bucket!) Thanks for
anything ya'll can do.
madgardener up on the ridge, back in steamy Fairy Holler, overlooking a
hazy English Mountain in Eastern Tennessee

"madgardener" wrote in message
...
I hate to ask this, but I would like to request something of you out there
who have read my rambles over the years. I have experienced some serious
hard drive problems of late and the 398 essays that I had already copied
and sent to myself over the course of the last two years has been lost
completely. All I'm asking is if you have any of my writings (rambles)saved
to e-mail them to me. And before you say to go to the archives and
rec.gardening, I have, and I am. It's slow going. I had enough to do one
book, and there are enough rambles and pieces to make two or three books!
I am serious about this now. If there is no one out there who has any
writings or rambles I understand. I'm facing LOTS of research and transfer
time to replace what I so painstakingly had gathered up (and it wasn't a
drop in the bucket!) Thanks for anything ya'll can do.
madgardener up on the ridge, back in steamy Fairy Holler, overlooking a
hazy English Mountain in Eastern Tennessee

Sorry I have read a few but have nothing saved. There are professional
organizations who specialise in retrieving data from what appear to be dead
disks.

On Thu, 3 Aug 2006 04:34:11 +0100, madgardener wrote
(in article ):

I hate to ask this, but I would like to request something of you out
there who have read my rambles over the years. I have experienced some
serious hard drive problems of late and the 398 essays that I had
already copied and sent to myself over the course of the last two years
has been lost completely. All I'm asking is if you have any of my
writings (rambles)saved to e-mail them to me. And before you say to go
to the archives and rec.gardening, I have, and I am. It's slow going. I
had enough to do one book, and there are enough rambles and pieces to
make two or three books! I am serious about this now. If there is no
one out there who has any writings or rambles I understand. I'm facing
LOTS of research and transfer time to replace what I so painstakingly
had gathered up (and it wasn't a drop in the bucket!) Thanks for
anything ya'll can do.

I expect you already know this, but just in case you don't, if you go into
Google Groups http://groups.google.co.uk/ and put in uk.rec.gardening as
the name of the group and do an Advanced Search, put in your name as the
author and you will only get your own postings. This might speed things up a
bit. Good luck!

(My ref is a UK one of course but Im sure there is a US equivalent if you
need it.)



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"madgardener" wrote in message
...
I hate to ask this, but I would like to request something of you out there
who have read my rambles over the years. I have experienced some serious
hard drive problems of late and the 398 essays that I had already copied
and sent to myself over the course of the last two years has been lost
completely. All I'm asking is if you have any of my writings (rambles)saved
to e-mail them to me. And before you say to go to the archives and
rec.gardening, I have, and I am. It's slow going. I had enough to do one
book, and there are enough rambles and pieces to make two or three books!
I am serious about this now. If there is no one out there who has any
writings or rambles I understand. I'm facing LOTS of research and transfer
time to replace what I so painstakingly had gathered up (and it wasn't a
drop in the bucket!) Thanks for anything ya'll can do.
madgardener up on the ridge, back in steamy Fairy Holler, overlooking a
hazy English Mountain in Eastern Tennessee

You obviously didn't have a correctly thought-out system to creating
backups. Do you have a CD burner? If yes, you should be backing up YOUR DATA
(the work you create) daily. Based on comments I've seen in some tech
newsgroups, many people never get around to creating a backup routine
because they think they have to back up their entire hard disk, an idea
which is almost useless if you're running Windows. Just back up your data.

If you're running a business on a computer, you should be backing up to a
separate piece of hardware, like an external hard drive, or better yet, a
tape drive. A copy of the backup should be kept off premises (safe deposit
box, or fire safe in a building not attached to your home). Why? Because a
backup is useless if it's in the same burning house that melts the computer
itself.

Finally, if you need to do something free, get yourself one or more free
email accounts from Yahoo. Email copies of your data to those accounts and
you're all set. The are two limitations to this idea. First, your ISP may
have size limits for outbound e-mail messages. And, Yahoo has similar size
limits for incoming messages. You can figure out ways around this issue.

I sent a rather large couple of files. any problem let me know and I will devise
other methods. Ingrid

madgardener wrote:

I hate to ask this, but I would like to request something of you out
there who have read my rambles over the years. I have experienced some
serious hard drive problems of late and the 398 essays that I had
already copied and sent to myself over the course of the last two years
has been lost completely. All I'm asking is if you have any of my
writings (rambles)saved to e-mail them to me. And before you say to go
to the archives and rec.gardening, I have, and I am. It's slow going. I
had enough to do one book, and there are enough rambles and pieces to
make two or three books! I am serious about this now. If there is no
one out there who has any writings or rambles I understand. I'm facing
LOTS of research and transfer time to replace what I so painstakingly
had gathered up (and it wasn't a drop in the bucket!) Thanks for
anything ya'll can do.
madgardener up on the ridge, back in steamy Fairy Holler, overlooking a
hazy English Mountain in Eastern Tennessee



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madgardener wrote:
I hate to ask this, but I would like to request something of you out
there who have read my rambles over the years. snip snip prune whack

I want to thank you for helping me in any way possible. Yes, I am aware
of Google archives and that's where I'd gotten the gleaned 398 posts
that I'd worked on cutting, pasting and sending to my e-mail account
which were lost and are embedded in my motherboard somewhere
irretrievable. Ingrid, you are a jewel. Thanks for the files. I've
already started opening them and now need to get Squire to do digital
back up on them to disk when he gets home after he works on his
deposition. I don't have a cd burner on my computer. I never felt the
need to have one, and Squire has one on HIS and he's networked into my
computer. So copying my stuff won't be so hard now. Especially since we
are now wirelessly linked and not tangled up in miles of cables! LOL

Any more help will be greatly appreciated. And no, we're not a business,
I write as I am inspired (not lately, when I sat down to put my many,
many thoughts onto paper time got away from me and now here it is
August............I have a good mind to just write them anyway, despite
the month! I have titles in the drafts folder and I remember vividly
what inspired those titles). Many thanks to those who endure me. I hope
Summer is being kind to you and that you are aren't suffering too much
from the heat. I will write a ramble soon.

maddie

"madgardener" wrote in message
...
madgardener wrote:
I hate to ask this, but I would like to request something of you out
there who have read my rambles over the years. snip snip prune
whack

I want to thank you for helping me in any way possible. Yes, I am aware of
Google archives and that's where I'd gotten the gleaned 398 posts that I'd
worked on cutting, pasting and sending to my e-mail account which were
lost and are embedded in my motherboard somewhere irretrievable. Ingrid,
you are a jewel. Thanks for the files. I've already started opening them
and now need to get Squire to do digital back up on them to disk when he
gets home after he works on his deposition. I don't have a cd burner on
my computer. I never felt the need to have one, and Squire has one on HIS
and he's networked into my computer. So copying my stuff won't be so hard
now. Especially since we are now wirelessly linked and not tangled up in
miles of cables! LOL

Any more help will be greatly appreciated. And no, we're not a business, I
write as I am inspired (not lately, when I sat down to put my many, many
thoughts onto paper time got away from me and now here it is
August............I have a good mind to just write them anyway, despite
the month! I have titles in the drafts folder and I remember vividly what
inspired those titles). Many thanks to those who endure me. I hope Summer
is being kind to you and that you are aren't suffering too much from the
heat. I will write a ramble soon.

maddie

Hopefully, you now see that it's not a question of IF a hard drive will
fail. It's a matter of WHEN, and there is always a WHEN. :-)

In article ,
madgardener wrote:

madgardener wrote:
I hate to ask this, but I would like to request something of you out
there who have read my rambles over the years. snip snip prune whack

I want to thank you for helping me in any way possible. Yes, I am aware
of Google archives and that's where I'd gotten the gleaned 398 posts
that I'd worked on cutting, pasting and sending to my e-mail account
which were lost and are embedded in my motherboard somewhere
irretrievable. Ingrid, you are a jewel. Thanks for the files. I've
already started opening them and now need to get Squire to do digital
back up on them to disk when he gets home after he works on his
deposition. I don't have a cd burner on my computer. I never felt the
need to have one, and Squire has one on HIS and he's networked into my
computer. So copying my stuff won't be so hard now. Especially since we
are now wirelessly linked and not tangled up in miles of cables! LOL

Any more help will be greatly appreciated. And no, we're not a business,
I write as I am inspired (not lately, when I sat down to put my many,
many thoughts onto paper time got away from me and now here it is
August............I have a good mind to just write them anyway, despite
the month! I have titles in the drafts folder and I remember vividly
what inspired those titles). Many thanks to those who endure me. I hope
Summer is being kind to you and that you are aren't suffering too much
from the heat. I will write a ramble soon.

maddie

External hard drives go for about $120 US .

Bill

PS consider Superduper or Retrospect . Now back to thinking about
cleaning our pond filter 95 ish not.

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William Wagner In article ,
madgardener wrote:

madgardener wrote:
I hate to ask this, but I would like to request something of you out
there who have read my rambles over the years. snip snip prune whack

I want to thank you for helping me in any way possible. Yes, I am aware
of Google archives and that's where I'd gotten the gleaned 398 posts
that I'd worked on cutting, pasting and sending to my e-mail account
which were lost and are embedded in my motherboard somewhere
irretrievable. Ingrid, you are a jewel. Thanks for the files. I've
already started opening them and now need to get Squire to do digital
back up on them to disk when he gets home after he works on his
deposition. I don't have a cd burner on my computer. I never felt the
need to have one, and Squire has one on HIS and he's networked into my
computer. So copying my stuff won't be so hard now. Especially since we
are now wirelessly linked and not tangled up in miles of cables! LOL

Any more help will be greatly appreciated. And no, we're not a business,
I write as I am inspired (not lately, when I sat down to put my many,
many thoughts onto paper time got away from me and now here it is
August............I have a good mind to just write them anyway, despite
the month! I have titles in the drafts folder and I remember vividly
what inspired those titles). Many thanks to those who endure me. I hope
Summer is being kind to you and that you are aren't suffering too much
from the heat. I will write a ramble soon.

maddie

External hard drives go for about $120 US .

Bill

PS consider Superduper or Retrospect . Now back to thinking about
cleaning our pond filter 95 ish not.

--
S Jersey USA Zone 5 Shade
This article is posted under fair use rules in accordance with
Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, and is strictly for the educational
and informative purposes. This material is distributed without profit.

maddy if u havent already done it maybe try contacting your computer shop and see if there is anyone that does file retrievals. there are some companies as has been mentioned that specialize in doing just that. my son had his resume on our computer when it went down a few years back and they were able to retreive it as well as pictures that were stored on the computer.
with all the work u had stored on your computer i would really seriously consider getting someone to see if they can retrieve and burn your stories to a disc for u and yup they can do that even off a downed puter. good luck, i love your stories and am waiting to read your books when u finally get them into print .
so prayers being said that u get them all back. take care sockiescat.

bizbee wrote:
On Wed, 02 Aug 2006 23:34:11 -0400 in
, madgardener
graced the world with this thought:

All I'm asking is if you have any of my
writings (rambles)saved to e-mail them to me

Invitation to a mass mail bombing!


well in all honesty, those who DO have my ramblings and writings will
send them. as for a mass mail bombing, I'm sure I'll get responses from
those who know the difference between my plea for help and sending
things they happen to have and those who want to screw around with me.
I get enough spam........but you've got a point there. again, thanks to
everyone for their patience and support. werds trickling out o' me
fingers soon.........
maddie

External hard drives go for about $120 US .

Bill


Staples had an internal 100GB hard drive for sale this week for $30 after
rebates. It's very easy to convert an internal HD to an external HD and
connect via USB.
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