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Well a success story of sorts...I was about to purchase SpinRite's product, when a pal had asked me to try another USB drive case...I tried a Travelstar USB 2.0 case, and presto, I was able to get at all of the data on that disk. Recall that I have a Travelstar branded disk, so perhaps the PCB...

Interesting...I'll post up results tomorrow. -paul

Roger, The notebook disk simply did not boot up one day. It's one of our shop's notebooks, and it's never left the building, nor has it been dropped to my knowledge. When booting up on that notebook machine, it gets through the boot up screen (Dell in my case), and then just blue screens. I...

Yup, there are jumper settings required for this travelstar. I've actually tried master, slave, and cable select with no luck. I've tried the util, GetDataBack-NTFS, and it does not pick up the disk either. And yup, I've tried connecting it as the lone device on the prim and second channels...

I've got a corrupt IBM Travelstar DJSA-220 20GB hard disk from a notebook machine. It's 2.5" in size. I've got a 2.5" to 3.5" adapter. I've acquired the correct jumper setting from IBM to make this disk a slave. I've connected this disk to the desktop machine using the adapter. (And yes, I've...

outstanding, Matt! Thanks! -paul

Hi. In my unix world, I can easily define what file extensions I want to backup and from which directories, but I need to do this on a Windows machine. I have a large project folder containing code, binaries, zip files, test junk, and then documentation pieces. I want to be able to say from...

Ditto, Vlad. That helps drill the logic home :-) -paul

Thanks very much, you two! -paul

I am having issues getting awk to give me what I want. All fields are pipe delimitted. All first fields contain 7 chars. I need: 1. column 2 to have a set width of 20 chars 2. column 4 to have a set width of 30 chars BEFORE: 1829101|CHRYSLER|1961|WINDSOR|008|383|06277|6.3L|2BL| 20G...

ahhhhh. that makes sense. thanks for the explanation.

Ed, The octal dump did not print the newline char at the end of each line. There were newlines in the output, but not at the end of each line. PHV, Your solution of appending a newline to the file worked, although I am confused how that line feed worked and what causes this. :-)

Well, I had not noticed the message at the bottom of vi in this case, Ed. It reads: "myfile.txt" [Incomplete last line] 90 lines, 7339 characters 90 is indeed how many lines reside in the file. What is it complaining about do you suppose? I tried your translation command and wrote it to...

I have what appears to be a user error, but I cannot determine why the results are not coming out right. I have a file with 90 validated lines in it. //I counted them manually Using `wc -l`, it yields 89. I look for lines with the string "A" in it and get 79. //The prompt returns on a...

How do I get `expr` to recognize a decimal? Say I want to multiply some whole number by .05. expr 50000 \* .05 On my Sun OS 5.6 machine, this command yields: "expr: syntax error" I also tried protecting the dot, but that did not help either. Perhaps there are other soutions. Thanks in advance.

thanks, HTH !

rather than having the printer use a landscape format for a file that may exceed some recommended width when using the lpr command, can I get it to print in portrait? I tried using col with the -b flag and that did not help. Also, is there some method of forcing the text to wrap for the printer...

excellent! Thanks again, Ed. And I discovered that wrapping the string in double-quotes will allow me search for two single-quotes in my data. select * from tocs where toc_name matches "%'%'%

Hello, trying to find a double-quote (") in a varchar field. How do we do this? I have tried these, but obviously there are three sets of quotes and it doesn't like that. Aside from unloading the table and using other tools to find it, can we comment out the quote so it will return those...

Thank you both!