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Ever since I took down the Windows Home Server and converted it as a Linux file server, I have been having some trouble connecting my wife’s Windows 7 laptop to the Samba file shares.  And recently her hard drive is getting full and we need a quick way to backup her work.  So I decided to pick up a Western Digital My Book Essential while it was on sale.

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You would think that after I got the Acer easyStore Home Server, my files are at least safe.  Well, they are from a hardware point of view, but not from stupidity point of view.

Yesterday, I realized I lost a lot of files: 7 years worth of photos.  The Acer easyStore Home Server did not fail me.  I did.  So here is what happened.

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