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I have a faulty drive on main computer gone for repair, and using a rather old lap top, plus a desktop with no monitor have to use TV so not easy to use.
One of the USB sticks only 8 Gb went faulty saying it needed to be reformatted, then a 2 TB hard drive did the same. I am wondering if due to using on an old Vista laptop which has a job keeping up with things?
I got a new 2 TB drive and set to recovering lost data, to date going well, but reports 12 days left, so the desk top now needs to be left on for 12 days, not what I really want to do. However it does seem as if I am going to get data back.
I am assuming once I have got all the data off the drive I can re-format and use again? It was the back-up drive for the laptop which went for repair so timing was not good, there is a limit to how many back-ups one can make.
But the question is could the really slow laptop have caused this problem? Was it just unlucky or is there a problem when laptops run slow in them not writing to a drive properly?
One of the USB sticks only 8 Gb went faulty saying it needed to be reformatted, then a 2 TB hard drive did the same. I am wondering if due to using on an old Vista laptop which has a job keeping up with things?
I got a new 2 TB drive and set to recovering lost data, to date going well, but reports 12 days left, so the desk top now needs to be left on for 12 days, not what I really want to do. However it does seem as if I am going to get data back.
I am assuming once I have got all the data off the drive I can re-format and use again? It was the back-up drive for the laptop which went for repair so timing was not good, there is a limit to how many back-ups one can make.
But the question is could the really slow laptop have caused this problem? Was it just unlucky or is there a problem when laptops run slow in them not writing to a drive properly?