[pchelpers] Re: USB Portable Hardrive - PC does not start

Scott and Cowboy
 
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--- On Wed, 7/16/08, Gerald Gollinger <gerald3nyc@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

From: Gerald Gollinger <gerald3nyc@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [pchelpers] Re: USB Portable Hardrive - PC does not start
To: pchelpers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Wednesday, July 16, 2008, 8:57 AM

Scott.
 
At  the  same  time  I  connected  a  USB  hub  with  a  four 
slot  card  reader,  The  plug  n'  play  hub  created  four 
new  drives  for  the  card  reader.  I  clicked  on  each  of 
the  new  drives  and  they  contained  nothing.
 
I  do  not  have  to  smash   the  hard  drive  to  bits  but  it
may  have  contained  correspondence. On  disposal   separating   the 
cables  from  the  drive  makes  it  more  difficult  to  read  the 
data.    I  do  not  think USA intelligence  organizations  are 
going  through  my  trash.
 
Gerald.
--- On Tue, 7/15/08, Scott McNay <wizard@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

From: Scott McNay <wizard@xxxxxxxx>
Subject: [pchelpers] Re: USB Portable Hardrive - PC does not start
To: "Gerald Gollinger" <pchelpers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tuesday, July 15, 2008, 11:52 PM

Hi Gerald,

Tuesday, July 15, 2008, 3:00:16 PM, you wrote:

GG> correction:  the usb cables prevent the PC from restart.  but
GG> since there is no new drive letter on my PC it seems to be broken
GG> components.  There is a lot of data on  the drive.  So it was
GG> formatted and partitioned.  I trash it and dump the cables in
GG> another place.  The apartment house porters just take this stuff
GG> away.  There is little risk that my data is exposed.  And it is
GG> just a lot of innocuous stuff. - Gerald

Oh, I'd forgotten about this, but go RIGHT-click on My Computer,
select Manage, Disk Management. Look for the drive in the list. It may
show up with a drive letter that is already used by another drive, or
it may show with no drive letter. If you see it, RIGHT-click on it,
select Change Drive Letter, click Change, and select a drive letter
that you know is not used.

If it's so "innocuous", why are you so concerned about it being
exposed?

-- 
Scott.



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