[Leica] Computer help!!!

[spencer at aotera.org (Spencer Cheng)]

Tina,

You could just be very lucky. :-)

Given the just-in-time manufacturing and delivery system these days  
for electronics, it would be extremely unlikely that the 4 disks you  
received (and have fail) over a period of months(?) be from the same  
batch. If the disks were consistently bad, the manufacturer would  
have to recall a few million of them by now.

In any case, I would replace the PC if I were in your situation. To  
keep on using the same flakey PC is to tempt Fate again and again.

Just to be on the safe side, I would consider taking the (new) PC off  
your internal network just in case it is virus/adware/network- 
delivered-electronic-pathogen that is causing your problem. Even  
better, never connecting it to any network. Mac's are a bit safer on  
a network but Windows-based machines requires a lot more caution.

Paranoia is good when one deals with computers. By the way, you do do  
backups and store the backups offsite somewhere, right?

Regards,
Spencer

On Jul 27, 2005, at 8:17, Tina Manley wrote:

> At 10:32 PM 7/26/2005, you wrote:
>
>> your possession is pretty remote. The likelihood of you getting hit
>> by lightening is higher.
>
> That happened two years ago ;-)