On Monday, March 15, 2021 at 4:58:16 AM UTC-10, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
> On 3/15/2021 9:20 AM, John Kuthe wrote:
> > On Sunday, March 14, 2021 at 11:51:00 PM UTC-5, wrote:
> >> On Sunday, March 14, 2021 at 9:39:12 PM UTC-5, wrote:
> >>>
> >>> I kid you NOT! The whole ****ing D: drive, an archive drive I kept safe from WinXP! Gone!
> >>>
> >>> Now I have to take my XP machine up to my fave Computer Shop to see if they can find it!
> >>>
> >>> I have the weirdest computer problems! :-(
> >>>
> >>> John Kuthe, RN, BSN...
> >>>
> >> I don't understand why you are taking your old computer to the repair shop.
> >> You're a computer engineer, why aren't you jumping in there and fixing this
> >> problem?????????? Use that 'degree' you crow about all the time!!!
> >
> > My local Computer Shop has some good restore tools and they can probably find my lost D: drive. It has a ton of old archive pics on it. Stuff of my house's restore, etc. Old pics, and I want them BACK!
> >
> > John Kuthe, RN, BSN...
> >
> Either burn them to a CD or put them on a thumb drive or two. Much safer.

The problem is that the ability to read these media is disappearing. If you are able to read your thumb drive, your computer might not be able to work with your old file formats. Local storage is a dying proposition. The world has passed on magnetic and optical media but solid state is currently the safest and most reliable personal archival medium - for now.