Thanks for your speedy and good info, guys. Very much appreciate any angles. I am redneck enough to attack a problem from any angle I am able (ala Duck tape and WD 40). Everthing mentioned so far is solid food for fodder.
Admin, the drive spins, so Sammy HD can avoid a deep freeze.
1492, I am liking and maybe getting warm on cloud auto backup of some things, and the vol group Women’s Council of BR needs to look at this for sure. A local wireless network is another thing, however – I am stretching my abilities at tech already!
The fellow that looked at our Samsung 320 Gn HD has been doing this stuff a long time. He said the Seagate device he used saw the data and it looked good. He reported that Seagate or one of his other apps (he named DOS as one) cleaned bad sectors. He mentioned boot and file firmware might be bad.
TheBearAK, last nite I found this about a Samsung
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5m3MpRL9YJgAmong other things, I might see wher I can get a close vintage Samsung and swap firmware.
