The Digital Surgery (computer questions/problems here)

[HHTel]

Just tried it. Works fine for me.

[PET]

Can I have a recommendation for a free cleaner. I have been using CCleaner but would like to change.

[thecolonel]

I have both Facebook and Facebook Lite on my phone. I use the Lite version day to day

I keep getting multiple notifications that my chats are moving to Messenger( about 15 times per day)

How do I stop these? Any ideas?

In settings/notifications i have almost everything turned off

i wouldnt mind so much but the transfer date was in September but these notifications are still happening now!

Thanks in advance

[buksida]

You cant, FB has phased out the Lite edition of its Messenger and forced people to use the full-blown version.

https://www.androidpolice.com/meta-kill ... nger-lite/

[thecolonel]

You cant, FB has phased out the Lite edition of its Messenger and forced people to use the full-blown version.

https://www.androidpolice.com/meta-kill ... nger-lite/

Yes fair enough FB, but there's no need for the constant reminders about something that's already happened!

Thanks for the article

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[thecolonel]

You cant, FB has phased out the Lite edition of its Messenger and forced people to use the full-blown version.

https://www.androidpolice.com/meta-kill ... nger-lite/

Your post helped me, I did not realise that I had a separate app called Messenger Lite.

Uninstalled it and the pesky notifications have stopped.

So thanks for that

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[Big Boy]

OK Guys, you will have seen my tales of woe on the Lazada thread.

My current laptop does not have sufficient storage.

My previous laptop had plenty of storage, so acted as my main backup for photos (1Tb) and music (200Gb). I also keep a copy on a Seagate Portable Hard Drive.

A few weeks ago my secondary computer rolled over and died, leaving me with just one copy of everything on my Seagate Portable Hard Drive. Not an ideal situation.

My plan was a 2nd Portable Hard Drive. Everything is currently stored on a 2TB drive, so I thought just buy another. It got to about 200Gb, overheated and died.

Returned the duff drive, and ordered another - Western Digital this time............. 200Gb and died - no overheating, but error messages this time e.g. 0x8000FFFF & 0x8007045d. The laptop message made the problem sound fixable. I tried and tried over a period spanning 16 hours - all fixes froze.

I'm now looking for viable alternatives. Portable Hard Drives seemed the easy solution - cheap and effective, but 2 failures have put that into doubt. Any suggestions are welcome. I'd hate to lose my music and photograph collections.

[PeteC]

Google those two error messages. Some details there.

[Big Boy]

Yes, but there were more errors, they were just examples - 1 of the 2 quoted says catastrophic failure. For a new piece of kit to be suffering like that, I don't want to trust it for long term storage.

[hhinner]

Simple checks would be using other USB port, other USB cable.

Assuming you're running windows. Is the disk formatted as ntsf, or what?

This article covers more possibilities.

https://www.diskpart.com/articles/error ... -0310.html

[Ginjaninja]

Pricey... but NAS is the way to go for back-ups. 2-bays should suffice:

https://www.invadeit.co.th/category/net ... orage-nas/

I've been planning a trip to Invade to get one for myself. Had a look at Lazada & Shopee and not much difference in prices for the branded units.

[Big Boy]

The cable(s) that I'm using are fine. The drives came pre-formatted, together with warning against formatting as anything else. The 200Gb that I successfully transferred was working fine. I could play music from it, I could view the photos I had managed to transfer and I could view videos and documents.

I'm quite au fait with Portable Hard Drives and have happily used them for many years, but having 2 failures out of 2, I am getting nervous, and was expecting people to come back with Cloud solutions or the like.

[hhinner]

The cable(s) that I'm using are fine. The drives came pre-formatted, together with warning against formatting as anything else. The 200Gb that I successfully transferred was working fine. I could play music from it, I could view the photos I had managed to transfer and I could view videos and documents.

I'm quite au fait with Portable Hard Drives and have happily used them for many years, but having 2 failures out of 2, I am getting nervous, and was expecting people to come back with Cloud solutions or the like.

What drives are they that warn against formatting as anything else? Are they genuine?

Another thought: if your files are important to you then you should have a backup in the cloud: Google, Microsoft, or any other with reasonable expectation of outliving your requirements.

Also maybe don't use windows explorer for big copies. I've found it unreliable in the past. Maybe try a specialized backup program. I use FreeFileSync which I think is available for windows.

[buksida]

Are you sure you bought the drives from the official stores? There are a lot of fakes on Laz and they will fail. Two new HDD failures in a row is very very rare.

[hhinner]

Are you sure you bought the drives from the official stores? There are a lot of fakes on Laz and they will fail. Two new HDD failures in a row is very very rare.

Precisely! Deep formatted to report 2TB size but really only 200GB.