Hello Listers, My beloved Acorn computer suffered a fatal internal error, this morning, and the hard disc with my huge archive is now in its death throes:-( I am now reduced to a PC so I may not be able to send or reply to messages on such a regular basis as I have done in the past. I find it difficult to use e-mail on a PC, having been used to the ease and versatility of my Acorn for so many years. My other half tells me that some of my material is retrievable, but this will mean a lot of fiddling and it may be a winter job. However, when one door shuts another one opens and this may be the opportunity for me to concentrate on living family and friends, for a change, rather than dead ancestors:-) Josephine

Hi Josephine It maybe that if you buy a case for a hard disc from somewhere like Misco Ltd or Maplin Ltd you can remove the Acorn Hard Disc (power off please) and put it in the case and plug it into a USB socket in the PC. Windows should recognize the disc and call it Drive D or say, X and you may be able to retrieve the data. Ive found that when the main disc goes in my Computers it still has accessible data even though it no longer functions normally. If in doubt talk to the suppliers of the hard disc case, they all have technical departments. Regards John -----Original Message----- From: bristol_and_somerset-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:bristol_and_somerset-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Josephine Jeremiah Sent: 18 October 2010 11:47 To: bristol_and_somerset@rootsweb.com Subject: [B&S] Josephine's dead Acorn! Hello Listers, My beloved Acorn computer suffered a fatal internal error, this morning, and the hard disc with my huge archive is now in its death throes:-( I am now reduced to a PC so I may not be able to send or reply to messages on such a regular basis as I have done in the past. I find it difficult to use e-mail on a PC, having been used to the ease and versatility of my Acorn for so many years. My other half tells me that some of my material is retrievable, but this will mean a lot of fiddling and it may be a winter job. However, when one door shuts another one opens and this may be the opportunity for me to concentrate on living family and friends, for a change, rather than dead ancestors:-) Josephine ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to BRISTOL_AND_SOMERSET-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

On Mon, 18 Oct 2010 12:04:04 +0100, John M <JHWM1@btconnect.com> wrote: > It maybe that if you buy a case for a hard disc from somewhere like Misco > Ltd or Maplin Ltd you can remove the Acorn Hard Disc (power off please) > and put it in the case and plug it into a USB socket in the PC. Windows > should recognize the disc and call it Drive D or say, X and you may be > able to retrieve the data. Thanks for your advice, John. I have passed it on to my other half who will be dealing with my Acorn hard disc problem. I really hope that it can be sorted out as already I have been having slight difficulties on the PC just replying to your message. My Acorn lets me choose to reply to sender or list, but the PC doesn't and I have difficulty formatting paragraphs in e-mails sent from a PC. I started to reply then looked at your original message, by which time the message I had started to compose had disappeared from my screen:-( I suppose that using a PC for e-mail this is something that I may have to get used to, but I am a creature of habit and from experience I know that it can take me ages to write one PC reply, when I could rattle off 10 or more Acorn replies in the same time:-) Josephine -- www.ianandjo.dsl.pipex.com

Oh Josephine I so know how you feel. My computer went into a shop as it had a virus which was making it run slowly. A young lad said 'what do you want to save' everything I said documents etc photos. Alas without any warning I lost all my e-mails. I had set up all my family search names and put e-mails regarding the different family history into each name. I did print a paper copy of really important stuff but so many other e-mails, research etc and bits and bobs, interesting discussions re family names, I didn't. The computer chap who set up my computer hadn't ticked copy to server, if he had I could have got the lot back. All gone. Ten years of this and that. At the time it was too awful to imagine, I felt numb, I thought they were just going to get rid of the virus that had slippped through my firewall but even Vista had gone. The one saving grace was that the book I had written was still there, all those words and hours spent. It will be published in February and that is the only saving grace I take from the dreadful expericence in May. Hope all goes well for you and that you get all you want back safe and sound. I love reading your e-mails so full of knowledge and heritage. Good luck from Deana in Hastings. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Josephine Jeremiah" <jojeremiah@dsl.pipex.com> To: <bristol_and_somerset@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, October 18, 2010 11:47 AM Subject: [B&S] Josephine's dead Acorn! > Hello Listers, > > My beloved Acorn computer suffered a fatal internal error, this morning, > and the hard disc with my huge archive is now in its death throes:-( > > I am now reduced to a PC so I may not be able to send or reply to messages > on such a regular basis as I have done in the past. I find it difficult to > use e-mail on a PC, having been used to the ease and versatility of my > Acorn for so many years. > > My other half tells me that some of my material is retrievable, but this > will mean a lot of fiddling and it may be a winter job. > > However, when one door shuts another one opens and this may be the > opportunity for me to concentrate on living family and friends, for a > change, rather than dead ancestors:-) > > Josephine > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > BRISTOL_AND_SOMERSET-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > > ======= > Email scanned by PC Tools - No viruses or spyware found. > (Email Guard: 7.0.0.18, Virus/Spyware Database: 6.16090) > http://www.pctools.com/ > ======= ======= Email scanned by PC Tools - No viruses or spyware found. (Email Guard: 7.0.0.18, Virus/Spyware Database: 6.16100) http://www.pctools.com/ =======

Dear Josephine, So sorry about your trusty acorn. I hope your files can be recovered & that using a pc will seem better as you get used to it. >From Jenny [in a surprisingly chilly Sydney, Australia] My Family History Website http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~becher/index.htm > Hello Listers, > > My beloved Acorn computer suffered a fatal internal error, this morning, > and the hard disc with my huge archive is now in its death throes:-( > > I am now reduced to a PC so I may not be able to send or reply to messages > on such a regular basis as I have done in the past. I find it difficult to > use e-mail on a PC, having been used to the ease and versatility of my > Acorn for so many years.

On Tue, 19 Oct 2010 01:38:15 +0100, Jenny Stiles <jstiles2@optusnet.com.au> wrote: > Dear Josephine, > So sorry about your trusty acorn. I hope your files can be recovered & > that using a pc will seem better as you get used to it. I hope our extensive correspondence about your Bristol DUDDLESTONE and BECHER families will among the research, which Ian recovers, Jenny. He was working hard recovering some of my material all day yesterday, while I was busy trying to handle e-mail on a PC. Yesterday morning, I didn't think I could do it, but this morning I am managing without any help. I must admit that there are advantages using a PC as now I can look at Google Books. Yesterday, I found some interesting information about one of my Quaker ancestors, who didn't pay his tithes. Josephine -- www.ianandjo.dsl.pipex.com