RE: bad excuse but inquiry

[russurquhart1@xxxxxxxx]

Another option, that i know was available during Apple's whole "Switching" campaign was that if you purchased an Apple computer, preferably from one of the Apple stores, they would take your pc files and transfer them over for you to your new machine.

I'm pretty sure that they still offer that service. I don't know what the cost of that would be and
if you are even near an Apple store.

I DO know that, if you are near an Apple store, you could go in, and go to their Genius Bar (that's
what Apple calls the part of the store where the Apple guru is who answers questions) and ask the
person there the best way to carry your data over from your pc. If you bring your machine in, they
may do it for you, or show you how to do it, for little or no cost. I know this because, while i
was doing something under OS 9, i hosed my system. I brought it into the Genius bar, he looked at it
and recognized that my System Folder needed "to be blessed". He quickly did that for me,
and i was off and running. No Charge.
Another time I went in because i was having problem installing a Persian font on my computer. I
thought that i would have to call the Apple Tech support for this, but the manager of the Apple
Store suggested i talk to their Genius. He got a machine out, we downloaded the Persian fonts from
the Apple website and walked through the procedure. (Come to find out that their description of
their procedure was incorrect.) This whole thing took up about 20-30 minutes of his time, but he
showed me what to do. I went home and that did the trick. Again, no charge.

So, if you are close to an Apple Store, I'd suggest asking them.

fwiw,

Russ


> This I could do, even if laptop doesn't even power on???!! NOTHING, ziltch,
> blank, DEAD!
>
> I could do this with just a tiny little hard drive in hand??
>
> If so, I'd be ecstatic!
> Mimi
>
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> [mailto:owner-xywrite@xxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of J. R. Fox
> Sent: Friday, September 17, 2004 2:04 PM
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> Subject: Re: bad excuse but inquiry
>
> mag wrote:
>
> > This is all great feedback, and I feel more comfortable venturing to do
> the
> > big *switch*! Now if I can find a way to retrieve some of my data from my
> > laptop hard drive, which I have been able to find and pull out, - but now
> > what to do? I'd know what to do with a desktop.
>
> Mimi,
>
> Can you burn CDs on this laptop ? There are probably some other options
> that
> aren't jumping out at me right now, but one that would make this a lot
> easier
> is USB (preferably 2.0). Does your laptop have this ? That would be easier
> &
> better than a Laplink sort of deal via the serial port, or a slow Parallel
> connection to something like a Zip drive.
>
> How much data are we talking about ? 50 Megs ? Gigs worth ?
>
> The thing with USB connectivity is that it opens up the very convenient
> world
> of external, portable "drive shells" (enclosures). You can take a DVD
> burner
> or a hard drive (even the laptop variety), and make a portable burner or
> portable hard drive yourself, for considerably lower cost than purchasing
> the
> ready-made external version of said device. I have done just that -- for
> both
> examples -- having good luck with the CoolMax CD-510 line of enclosures.
> These
> are a bit larger and heavier than many others I've seen, but they are also
> more
> rugged (all aluminum), with their own power switch and cooling fan. {It
> would
> be a different model line for the much smaller laptop-sized hard drives.}
> Once
> you have the burner or the hard-drive of your choice, the assembly is
> minimal
> and quite simple.
>
> The extra flexibility this arrangement offers, for archiving,| data transfer
> etc. is just tremendous. You can do pretty much whatever you need to do,
> shuttling between most any computers that have USB-2. Only where you have
> to
> go between Macs and PCs would this get complicated.
>
>
> Jordan
>
>