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Struggling to connect
Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) Started conversation Jul 4, 2013
The flaky 640GB HDD has stopped connecting. 
I got about a third of the data (mostly TV shows) off overnight and this morning/afternoon, but the connection is incredibly flaky and prone to crash if I'm doing anything else on this computer at the same time. Even when it's working, the adapter I got from Grambo is only USB1, so I can't get a dataflow of more than 10Mbit/Second. 
And it was locked up overnight when I thought it was copying. 
I'm going to let it cool off overnight and have another go in the morning. 
There's little else to report. When it was connected I spent much of the day in the armchair listening to the radio/watching TV, almost afraid to move in case it crashed... 
I watched "Futurama", "Warehouse 13", "24", "Stargate SG-1" and "Mock the Week". I'll probably pick something else off Netflix to watch before I crash. 
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