[P1] What happened?

[Gloria Vogel]

Can't help you with what happened, but I can tell you that I recently 
bought a reconditioned 120 GB external hard-drive to use with both my 
G4 desktop and my iBook using Retrospect Express and I am very pleased 
with it.  I do a lot of work with graphics and therefore have big 
files. Having lost, irretrievably,  years of work this summer when my 
previous G4's hard-drive went kaput, I swore I would never let this 
happen again, thus the purchase of the external hard-drive.

On Tuesday, October 28, 2003, at 10:24 AM, Rebecca J. Hoffman wrote:

> I'm hoping someone can tell me what happened to my iBook last night.
>
> I decided yesterday to back up my hard drive using Retrospect Express. 
> I ran Norton Disk Doctor first and it found only minor problems, which 
> it fixed. The back up took hours because I was writing to CDs. About 
> midnight I was about half done and I decided to go to bed and continue 
> in the morning. I clicked the "pause" button and turned down the 
> display.
>
> This morning when I got up, I couldn't get the display to come back 
> up. When I realized the machine was frozen, I tried to force quit, 
> then I tried to do a warm reboot. Nothing. Then I tried the control, 
> option and shift keys while hitting the power button. The CD drive 
> (which still had the CD I was writing to last night in it) whirred and 
> I got a blank grey screen. I hit the power button again to turn the 
> machine off, opened the CD drive with a piece of wire and booted up 
> with my Norton Systemworks disk. I ran Disk Doctor, including a media 
> check. It found bad blocks! It fixed them and right now everything 
> seems to be working fine.
>
> What happened? I take it I can't pause the back up process like that, 
> but why? I think I'll have to get something else to back up to. Maybe 
> one of those little sticks that plug into the USB port. In the 
> meanwhile, is it safe to continue backing up on CDs? I'd like to 
> finish and have the whole drive backed up.
>
> Thanks!
> Rebecca
>
>
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