Call me paranoid, but I don’t trust ANYONE with my data. When I was a teenager I remember sending in rolls of film to be developed and sometimes there were photos missing! We’d get the negatives back, and I’d flip through the pictures looking for the photos I was waiting for but they weren’t in the envelope. You know why? Because HUMANS were involved and they wanted the photos and they took them. You know how often humans peek into things they shouldn’t? Every day.
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But it comes back to the question: How much is your time worth? Warning – the following article is for hard core geeks only. In fact, it’s a bit of a cheat that we’re putting it here, because this is a reference tool for Advanced IT work to copy files that are trapped on a broken Windows computer using a Selkie Freedom IT USB key aka flash drive aka thumb drive aka dongle. Selkie Freedom IT has a default recovery setting that determined priority files, however it can be changed by technically-advanced users by reading below. So, when you see BSOD don’t panic. First, write down the error message you are seeing on the blue screen. Then, reboot your computer and recover your files to a working computer with Selkie Rescue over a network or to a thumb drive with Selkie Freedom. Then, you need to get to work fixing the problem that caused the error message. If you don’t want to hand your computer to a complete stranger so that he can poke around in your private data, then you need to read up on how to do-it-yourself if you have the Blue Screen of Death and you need to make your computer work for you. Have you ever been camping in the middle of nowhere and you realize that the loudest thing you can hear is the blood pumping through your veins? It’s been too long since I’ve felt that there’s no white noise or fridge hum in the background and I think the lack of silence is taking its toll on me… |
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