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The death of the microdrive

Posted in All on November 13th, 2005 · 1 Comment

It seems that the 1 GByte microdrive that I used yesterday in my camera died. I tried to copy pictures from it using both my home and office workstations, but USB module just keeps crashing. The only hope I have left is that maybe the camera itself will be able to read it. If it will, I’ll copy the pictures from yesterday, using the camera software. Otherwise, I’ll lose a bunch of pictures from yesterday and will have to order a new CompactFlash. Sad.

The microdrive served me good for almost two years. Maybe it’s just the time for it to die. Or maybe it’s something else. Still, that’s sad.

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  • 1 Blog of Leonid Mamchenkov // Dec 1, 2005 at 8:28 pm

    New card reader

    Sometimes I feel really stupid. Especially when I realize that I couldn’t properly diagnose the problem. I thought that my microdrive was dying, when in fact it was my card reader. Today I realized the problem in full scope.
    Went out and boug…

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