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To: ArGee; Gefn

The late Igor used to say, “A change is as good as a rest.” The longer I live, the more I see the wisdom in that statement.

I tried to access the genealogical data that I had stored on several CD-ROMs and after the first one, containing the info for my son’s birth father, I’m in tears. The disc is blank.

I have 10 more discs with genealogical data and I’m afraid to even start looking. Add that to an earlier event today and the tears are hard to hold back.

It will take me three months, at least, to reconstruct, and I promise I will print out hard copies.

I am so tired of my lack of foresight... One would think, after I had to start over four times after computer crashes, that I would have printed out the data of every morsel of info I found.


8,122 posted on 12/09/2015 12:03:25 PM PST by Monkey Face (To be without silver is better than to be witihout honor. ~~ Nordic proverb)
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To: Monkey Face

I changed my underwear this morning and I don’t feel rested.

No, don’t ask me about yesterday.


8,123 posted on 12/09/2015 12:07:52 PM PST by ArGee (War can be quick or (relatively) painless, but not both.)
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To: Monkey Face

Check your driver.

Did you get any CDs with the compooper? If you did, try them.

You may not have lost your data. You may have a problem with the CD-ROM driver or its firmware. I’m reading a post on Google where someone with at Dell had the same problem. If you want to look it’s ccm.net/forum/affich-706515-dvd-writer-shows-all-disks-blank-or-insert-disk.


8,124 posted on 12/09/2015 12:12:25 PM PST by ArGee (War can be quick or (relatively) painless, but not both.)
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