Of COURSE that's how it works
I had more or less recent backups of my now-defunct laptop's hard drive.
So naturally, when the hard drive was pulled out and installed into an external case, and the casing then plugged into my desktop, everything worked perfectly. All of the files in the directories that I care about were copied, nice and smoothly and with no hitches, to the file server. Ditto for the second and third priority files.
Even if the drive had been dead, I would have lost at most about two weeks' worth of bookmark updates (o woe!), business record updating, and a few work-related downloads.
It's only when we stand to lose MONTHS and MONTHS of VITAL data that the problem turns out to be the hard drive it's-dead-Jim.
Note, I'm not complaining at all. It cost me most of an evening, but was worth it.
So naturally, when the hard drive was pulled out and installed into an external case, and the casing then plugged into my desktop, everything worked perfectly. All of the files in the directories that I care about were copied, nice and smoothly and with no hitches, to the file server. Ditto for the second and third priority files.
Even if the drive had been dead, I would have lost at most about two weeks' worth of bookmark updates (o woe!), business record updating, and a few work-related downloads.
It's only when we stand to lose MONTHS and MONTHS of VITAL data that the problem turns out to be the hard drive it's-dead-Jim.
Note, I'm not complaining at all. It cost me most of an evening, but was worth it.