re: USB device doesn't show in Device Manager & pics on website
Saturday, January 5, 2008 at 10:45 pm
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by gewg_
(3940 messages posted)
|[...]Gateway has advised us that if we cannot save that
| combsy1992
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From what I am hearing, I don't think much more of Gateway
than I thought of the previous guy who messed with your system.
Getting files off a drive should be duck soup for Gateway.
If they are going to touch your computer,
INSIST that they do NOTHING until those files are backed up.
|they will help us to clear out
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The lazy tech's way is to wipe the drive and start fresh
--and to hell with YOUR data. See INSIST (above).
|and upgrade to a different Windows
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I don't know how old your system is, but I'm thinking that you (and Gateway)
are going to try to make a barely-passable bogged-down system
out of something that could easily be restored to original specs.
I used a 1939 Volkswagen analogy previously.
|I am leaning that way but I am so sad to lose my pictures.
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The items in your latest post (which weren't meant directly for me)
were all covered by C K earlier in this thread.
I suggest you go back and read that.
|The FreeAgent external drive comes with a small foldout page that...
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It doesn't sound like before you gave the cashier your money for the drive
you read the side of the box.
We are seeing this sort of thing all the time these days:
http://www.annoyances.org/exec/forum/win98/1175704328
This is yet another aspect of the 1939 Volkswagen thing again.
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