Louise,
well im sorry to hear about your drive,but im writing to give you hope, as a
computer
tech gene myself. some of the most common problems with hard drives crashing is
either
the file allocation tables get messed up, a virus, and the heads goes bad. all
of
which can be fixed without losing major data blocks, A hard drive is broken
down to
sectors which is broken down into really small clusters of information, and a
problem
with those can cause the whole hard drive to fail. But if these segement of the
hard
drive can be fixed the rest of the information can be saved, in some cases.
But what im saying is have faith in the technical world if you sent it to the
right
person data can be saved and or retreived from a bad drive.
Jonathan Amo
Joe Amo wrote:
> Louise, that is worse than feeling the motor nose over at the big end, it
>sure is
> tough to hear those hard drives lose a cylinder
> Joe :) Here is praying for you and the drive, remember tech. is good,
>they
> must have the power to do it.
>
> Glen Barrett wrote:
>
> > back up, back up back up. ZIP or other even cheap 3 1/2 floppy disks
> > Glen
> >
> > LandSpeed Louise wrote:
> >
> > > Glenn Barrett's comments are precisely what the sport needs to flourish.
> > > With so much competing for the attention of youngsters, the responsibility
> > > of attracting "new blood" falls to those already involved.
> > >
> > > Shirking that duty may cause a "flatline" whihc will eventually kill the
> > > sport when too few dedicated and knowledgeable and safety conscious sare
> > > around to put a meet together.
> > >
> > > On another painful note, My hard drive took a header into cyber oblivion
> > > Saturday morning. With it went the Bonneville book, all my notes, email
> > > address book and my racers database. We are sorting through the backups to
> > > see what survived and I am shipping the drive off to a big money doc to
>try
> > > to save the data, but I am not hopeful.
> > >
> > > I ask all racers to send me a message with theior contact info so that I
> > > might rebuild from the smoldering ashes. Anyone with a contact database
>who
> > > might be willing share with me would be fantastic.
> > >
> > > I got word from MBI Friday . . . it is official, they want me to write a
> > > book on the history of the dry lakes. So any help anyone can offer would
>be
> > > very much appreciated.
> > >
> > > I am devastated. three years of notes, database and email compilation
>gone,
> > > all gone.
> > >
> > > Sigh,
> > >
> > > LandSpeed Louise
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Glen Barrett <speedtimer@earthlink.net>
> > > To: Keith Turk <kturk@ala.net>
> > > Cc: ardunbill@webtv.net <ardunbill@webtv.net>; land-speed@autox.team.net
> > > <land-speed@autox.team.net>
> > > Date: Sunday, January 30, 2000 1:34 PM
> > > Subject: Re: Youngsters
> > >
> > > >Hi Gang
> > > >
> > > >Some 3 or 4 years ago we did try to start up a JR. Lakester class for the
> > > >youngsters coming up. Mike Cook , Ron Pruett and a couple of others
>brought
> > > cars
> > > >up. We set up a 1/4 mile course with a 132 ft trap just like the big
>guys.
> > > Rick
> > > >Vesco also set up a mini course at Bonneville. They run a JR. Streamliner
> > > and
> > > >lakesters also a couple of mini bikes. Myself I think its great, We
>should
> > > >encourage the kids to follow on. Look what neat people us oldsters are
> > > because
> > > >we had something to aim for.
> > > >
> > > >One other thought, at the lakes we let 50 60mph small cu/in motorcycles
>run
> > > the
> > > >full course,why not the JR cars if they make a comeback. Just my
>feelings,
> > > just
> > > >wish I could have started out that way with todays equipment.
> > > >
> > > >Glen
> > > >
> > > >Keith Turk wrote:
> > > >
> > > >> My thoughts were that this sorta class would be just the ticket to have
> > > some
> > > >> fun.
> > > >>
> > > >> wouldn't be the fastest class but it would up the number of entries at
> > > all
> > > >> out events.... K
> > > >> ----- Original Message -----
> > > >> From: <ardunbill@webtv.net>
> > > >> To: Keith Turk <kturk@ala.net>; <land-speed@autox.team.net>
> > > >> Sent: Sunday, January 30, 2000 9:15 AM
> > > >> Subject: Re: Youngsters
> > > >>
> > > >> > Yeah, Keith, that's a good idea, like AMA Class C racing was
>originally
> > > >> > supposed to be. An '82+ Camaro with V-6 only, gas only, otherwise
>any
> > > >> > engine mods ok, BUT, a claiming rule with a low $ figure, like $2000
> > > (if
> > > >> > that is realistic). So people could use their ingenuity for low
>bucks
> > > >> > to get max safe speed. But anybody else could buy your car, for the
> > > >> > claiming price. AND NO HARD FEELINGS.
> > > >> >
> > > >> > The old AMA motorcycle racing system broke down and was full of
>factory
> > > >> > specials supplied to professional riders, simply because the
>privateers
> > > >> > were fooled into believing it was "unsporting" to buy one of these
> > > >> > factory toolroom jobs for the (low) claiming price in the rules which
> > > >> > was put there in the first place to discourage people from spending
> > > >> > large sums on exotic development of what were supposed to be road
> > > bikes.
> > > >> > Of course if the privateer had claimed one of these factory bikes, he
> > > >> > would have had the problem of replacing one-off parts when they wore
> > > >> > out.
> > > >> >
> > > >> > Regards from ArdunBill in the Great Dismal Swamp, Chesapeake, VA
> > > >> >
> > > >> >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
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