Aomei logo - does Microsoft know?

Hazel123 said:

Typewriter carriage - plenty of welly and then a ping

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You know I'm kidding, right? I'm over 80, and I learned to type on a mechanical Smith-Corona. I spent a lot of time hitting that lever on the left that advanced the rubber ROLLER a linespace and took the CARRIAGE back to character-position 1.

When I was older, my brothers and I bought my father his first electric. No lever, but a rubber roller still, and knobs at both ends so that you could manually adjust the line if you wished. Took my father a long time to break the habit of hitting the left knob, accomplishing nothing. He had typed on a mechanical for well over 50 years by then, and old habits die hard, especially in old people.

Yes, Carriage. That was the moving part in (almost) every mechanical typewriter. It had a handle on the right left, with which you could send the carriage to its null position. Carriage Return.

Later on, when coding was developed for telexes, one of the coding standards was ASCII. In that Carriage Return was hex 0D, but you had to transport the paper as well: Line Feed (hex 0A). The combination used then always used (but still used in plain text files) was 0D0A: CRLF. Carriage Return Line Feed.

7 bit ASCII was used too on the electric teletypes (for commanding early computer systems), partly functioning with 8-hole paper tape (the last hole had hardly any function). One I had to do with was the 33 ASR, that can be seen here (Wikipedia). I was supposed to maintain it mechanically as well. That was about from 1976 until 1983! It was used to operate the main computer (Prime 100) of the typesetting system.

My main job in that time was to (electronically) maintain the typesetting machine, controlled by one more Prime 100 minicomputer.
That typesetter had about the size of a small room: Linotron 303. You find it here: The Typesetter that's part TV set: the Linotron 303.

Kees said:

It had a handle on the right, with which you could send the carriage to its null position. Carriage Return.

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Just a minor adjustment: if the handle was on the right, it would have moved the carriage to the END of the typing line. Yes?

Yes, you are right! It was on the left!

(Changed it in my post, but left the wrong word crossed out.)

Hazel123 said:

Fair enough and yes it’s possible the usb just failed at that moment. It still didn’t give me a lot of confidence though.

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Does the USB drive show in Disk Management? It may need to be assigned a drive letter.

I'll take that logo and raise you an inversion.

TBH I am quite pleased with my MiniTool Partition Wizard Pro Ultimate with the life time warranty even if it is a mouthful to type.