Technical Difficulties

[emo_snal]

   Arriving home to my cute little house in my cute little village on the edge of the temperate rainforest in southern Australia, I naturally was eager to get the pictures off my DSLR as well as try to trouble-shoot the external hard drive. Recall that (A) I bought a new laptop right before the trip since the old one had finally become too tedious

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[meisje_viktoria]

Thumbs up on the name of the new laptop.

As a person who is almost fearful of any technology failing, I understand the panic you may have felt. I hope things will work out soon.

[emo_snal]

It looks like my external hard drive is toast. ): ): ): I'm gonna look into data recovery if it isn't toooo expensive because that's all my pictures from well forever till now, as well as a lot of documents and things :-/ I'm a bit depressed about it all. ):

[meisje_viktoria]

That is one of my greatest fears and why I am wary of converting photos to the digital platform. Losing or worse, them getting out. I would also be worried of losing the archive or files being corrupted.

[lsanderson]

Take the memory card out of the camera and read it from the laptop if it has the right slot, or buy a memory card reader for the new laptop?

[emo_snal]

It turns out the battery was just too low on the DSLR! It had enough battery life to turn on and take pictures so it didn't occur to me that it needed yet more battery power to transfer pictures! My IT support friend figured it out.

[a_phoenixdragon]

Arrghhh. I wish I had answers, honey...

[pundigrion]

So aggravating when they all start breaking at once!

[mexpatriot]

I've had a couple of external HDs and they both crapped out pretty quickly. I had a big one that I put all my CDs on before moving to Mexico. I then sold the CDs. I have never been able to get that data back. I hang on to the thing in hope that it will be possible one day. Since USBs have such large storage capacities now, I go that route. I've never had a problem with a USB, and they are really portable. I always scan them with AVG Free.

For camera, I have a Canon Powershot A2500. It's great, really small and portable, and the battery lasts forever. I had an earlier version with conventional cylindical batteries. The batteries got sucked dry very quickly. The battery in the new one is incredible. One charge will last more than two weeks of constant use. When it sits in a drawer for months, the battery still lasts. It does video, too. It's also very cheap.

[emo_snal]

I used to always have on my DSLR, a point and shoot canon powershot, and of course the phone camera, but between the phone and DSLR I've stopped carrying around a point and shoot.

I think I have a 250 gig little memory chip thing and both laptops have a reader so I think today I might try to evacuate the materials from my old laptop with that.