[NTLK] Locked up data on 32 meg PreTec card. Yikes! Help!

From: mkow1234_at_aol.com
Date: Thu Dec 01 2005 - 10:44:49 PST


Well, I think I screwed up one of my Newton cards. Didn't heed the lesson of making back-ups religiously, performing experimental work on a separate Newton, and so forth.
I don't really know what's causing the problem. I did download some new font extensions, but I don't think that did it. What I think may be the problem was that I also used XPort to transfer a bitmap file to my Newton.
 
 
When I boot up the Newton, it will work fine WITHOUT the PreTec card. With the PreTec card inserted, the Newton starts to go through the list of package names as it warms up, but then it hangs on one of the XPort extensions, 'RTF_Xport' or something like that. "Fine", I say to myself, "I will just use NCU without that card and install that extension, and then try the card again." But no, on the next boot-up, the Newton decides to hang up on the NEXT extension file that occurs alphabetically, 'WordWar'. I load that file onto the Newton's memory and try again. You know what happens next -- the card hangs up on the next file alphabetically down the list. And so on...
 
 
I would just say to heck with it, but I have sentimental items on this card, including sound recording files we made during hiking trips down south over the past two years, many Note files, all of my games, etc.
 
 
I tried to insert the PreTec card into my old IBM laptop, but it can't find drivers for the card. I even searched online without any luck, so that's out. Anybody out there that can help? Ideally, it would be nice if there were a way to put the card in an older card reader and then selectively delete one or two files, to clear up space, assuming this is a memory issue.
 
 
Help! I don't want to resort to writing off this card, if it can be helped!
 
 
Matt K.

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