Robert in CA wrote:
I have to really concentrate when I read your stuff *L*

First,.. I have started to rebuild my Shopping folder/files
and part of the reason was the point you hit on. My link
to buying HD's. This is the one we've been using.

https://www.newegg.com/seagate-deskt...2E16822148834#

I have one Star Tech case left:

https://www.newegg.com/startech-sat3...82E16817707227

It says they are out of stock can you suggest another case?

What happens with the mouse is that for example, if I'm in my Dell imaging
where I usually have 2 screens displayed. Lets say I open a third to do some
work but when I close it the mouse closes one of the 2 screens that were open.
It didn't use to do that. So I have to set the screens up all over like I had them.

That's what happened with the bookmarks it just kept going and did whatever it
did.

In a way I'm glad this happened because I realized I have zero HD backups for
Windows 7 Pro for either computer. I think what happened was that we did have
the Win7 Pro OS but we took advantage of the Windows 10 option. Thats why all
the HD's were Win 10. So here's the plan; around the end of April I get paid again
and will buy (4) HD's so we can create Win 7 Pro OS for both the 8500 and 780 and
we can pick up again then.

I checked and I do have rescue disks etc that we made before so I'm sure I have
something there. You made sure I did everything correct.

Oh btw what do you think of me using brushes or compressed air to clean the inside
of the computer out?

Thoughts/suggestions?
Robert




The Startech seems to have moved to putting fans, only
on their multi-bay enclosures. And those are too expensive
for a little occasional usage with a single drive.

There is the Rosewill one. This has a fan on it.

https://www.newegg.com/rosewill-rx30...82E16817182316

But it's so hard to tell how the drive installs in there,
and you know how important that is when they get it wrong.

https://www.rosewill.com/product/ros...display-panel/

There is a 55MB user manual with pictures. Their
download page is a bit slow, so this will take a bit of time.

https://www.rosewill.com/download/us...dl=37249&ind=0

( from https://www.rosewill.com/download/us...u3-35b-ol-pdf/ )

There aren't going to be as many options with fans.
They like to make enclosures without fans, to
try to cook the drives.

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A lot of cleaning methods, to remove dust from computers,
generate static electricity. And that isn't always the
best for the equipment. If you use the duster-in-a-can,
that's a refrigerant, and can drop the temperature of the
chips you point it at, quite drastically. They don't
have windowed DIP EPROMS in computers any more, but when
they did, the low temperature materials in spray cans
could kill those. That's the only component I know of,
that could be killed by sudden temperature shock.

A less-concentrated airflow, like maybe a reversed vacuum
cleaner, used outdoors on a table, might be a way to
dislodge the dust. Some vacuum cleaners, had fittings
so you could reverse the flow for blower applications.

Using a vacuum in vacuum mode, isn't recommended. Static
discharge can come off the barrel of the metal tube. It's
the movement of dust particulate, over the black plastic surfaces
of the ICs, that can generate static, and that is static
right next to the electrical pins on them. But some static
can also be generated on vacuum hoses or tubing, and if the
vacuum metal tube touches something, there could be a discharge.

It's really hard to give iron-clad guarantees about this
topic. If the anti-static police at work were here,
they'd be constantly rapping me on the knuckles,
for "bad technique". We had some guys, entrusted with
that role. Anti-static police.

Paul