Hi, Michael, and others,
I would happily spend the money to have somebody do it for me, but I cannot give up my machine under the current circumstances for the 3 or 4 days that the services require. I am thinking that if I follow Jack’s instructions, I can swap out the new hard drive and see if it works. If it doesn’t, I am no worse off. The transfer of files could be done overnight.
All my data is up on Carbonite, but the last time I had to do this, it took two days to download over an Ethernet connection.
Nick
Nicholas S. Thompson
Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology
Clark University
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Nick,
If you wanted to transfer only “files,” like the text of a paper, photographs, a spreadsheet, etc. there are plenty of ways to do that. (You probably know this, I’m not trying to insult your intelligence!) However, if software is involved, e.g. Word, Excel, etc., I think it’s much more complicated. What you have heard about an image is correct, but I wouldn’t recommend that as a do-it-yourself project, particularly in a distracted state of mind with family troubles. There are just too many little things that could go wrong. My advice is to hire someone. Price range would most likely be $100 - $150, but that’s only a guess.
Best of luck,
Mike Stevens
Berkeley
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1. Sober, clear advice needed (Nick Thompson)From: "Nick Thompson" <[hidden email]>
Subject: [FRIAM] Sober, clear advice needed
Date: April 25, 2016 at 11:17:38 AM PDT
To: "Friam" <[hidden email]>
Hi, everybody,
A substantial family calamity occurred in Massachusetts on Friday, on the same day that a technician who replaced my motherboard here warned me that my hard drive is on its last legs. I have a new hard drive sitting on my desk from HP and HP will come install it, but under my circumstances I cannot afford any break in my communication with My People in Massachusetts.
Here is where I need your advice. I keep being told that it is possible to make an “image” of one’s hard drive. I imagine this means, I pay a hundred bucks for a black box, I plug the black box into my computer, I let it whir for a night, and then there is a copy of my hard drive on the black box. Then, when my present hard drive dies, I have HP replace it, I plug the black box into the computer again, let it whir for another night, and when I wake up in the morning, resume my life exactly as it was.
Is such a thing possible? Could it be done by a “citizen” (as Owen calls us) who is much distracted by other things. Can you recommend a particular black box. One problem that DotFoil has suggested is that my old hard drive may have errors on it, and that transferring an “image” (if such a thing is possible) will transfer those errors, with possibly fatal consequences. Should I perhaps run error correction software somewhere in that process.
Please advise,
Nick
P.S. Everybody’s safe.
Nicholas S. Thompson
Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology
Clark University
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