Re: [NTLK] Best way to secure information?

From: Paul Nuernberger (newton_at_thenuernbergers.com)
Date: Thu Feb 21 2002 - 06:36:25 EST


There is a 90% chance that the ROM card in your unit has been dislodged in
its slot. Open up the unit and unseat, then reseat the ROM card.

I have seen this happen a lot to dropped 2k series units (& eMates as well).

Paul Nuernberger

> From: "Ermin Mistica" <angel316_at_earthlink.net>
>
> Fellow Newtonians,
>
> I just had the biggest scare in a long time. I was in the city today and
> someone bumped into me thereby making me drop my bag which had my precious
> MP 2100 in it. Upon examining it, it appeared to be okay. Later on this
> evening, it reset itself. Usually when resetting it just goes through the
> whole shebang without any problems but THIS time it performed a Hard Reset
> without any prompting from me and erased EVERYTHING on the internal store
> without even asking!!! Luckily (Je..., Ma.., Jo....) I had backed up my
> internal store last night to the card!!! I was like No Way!!!
>
> So I performed a Full Restore of the Internal stuff. Everything's fine
> except to the minute changes I made today to my date book and it then did it
> again!!! I'm like this...this is so not funny. Why is this happening to me
> and I leave for a weekend trip to Virginia tomorrow. I'm gonna need my MP
> 2100 in his finest form and he has a concussion!!!
>
> When it resets, it then boots to the setup screen. He's not remembering
> anything. He has partial anmesia. What can I do?
>
> After a previous incident where I lost information before, not to this
> extent, though, I've considered going back to my MP 130 (none to soon as I
> have just won one). It was a little more reliable as far as the basics and
> software and all that. But the only thing is can an MP 130 handle a 32MB
> Card? Should I even consider going back to an MP 130?
>
> Should I save all my information on the internal store to be backed up or
> better save it on the PC Card? What works better for all of you? If you
> don't want to inundate the list, email me off list., I would really
> appreciate some words of wisdom here.
>
> Thank you,
> Ermin :(

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