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Suffering terribly from jet-lag I woke up at 4:30 AM and decided I had better copy all my trip photos from my portable hard drive to my PC.
Of course, to my horror, the PC showed NO DISK in portable hard drive. I rebooted both devices repeatedly to no avail.
Before committing suicide, I decided to try one last effort. Thinking perhaps that the vibration of the trip had loosened the disk connector - or rather hoping it had - I took apart the case of the PHD, took out the internal drive and reseated it - AND IT READ.
It is now copying file 1280 of 2865 raw files to my PC.
I amweak from the experience - but relieved that I have actually taken the thing apart. Now I will look for additional hard drive for portable so I can actually have redundant backup on any trip.
As a side note, due to horrible weather in Chicago, my trip back from SEA turned from 26 hour marathon into 44 hour torture.
Hope to start posting images soon.
Of course, to my horror, the PC showed NO DISK in portable hard drive. I rebooted both devices repeatedly to no avail.
Before committing suicide, I decided to try one last effort. Thinking perhaps that the vibration of the trip had loosened the disk connector - or rather hoping it had - I took apart the case of the PHD, took out the internal drive and reseated it - AND IT READ.
It is now copying file 1280 of 2865 raw files to my PC.
I amweak from the experience - but relieved that I have actually taken the thing apart. Now I will look for additional hard drive for portable so I can actually have redundant backup on any trip.
As a side note, due to horrible weather in Chicago, my trip back from SEA turned from 26 hour marathon into 44 hour torture.
Hope to start posting images soon.