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Check for local power outage before calling consumer support calming your external harddrive will not start. PS: I just proved this joke/myth can indeed happen to anyone!

Apparently only your non-battery powered external harddrive shuts off during a power outage. Your battery powered notebook computer stays operational. What a fool I must have looked like to the consumer support guys at Western Digital in the Netherlands. Somehow I am glad their support department was in another contry.

This incident did however remind me of how fragile my data is. But really, how do you back up a 2 TB drive?

Copyright © 2008 Daniel Aleksandersen 2008-04-24 at 08:04

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