So by default there's nothing free to compress in Windows, right?
As far as I know, yeah.
Death is your art. You make it with your hands day after day. That final gasp, that look of peace. And part of you is desperate to know: What's it like? Where does it lead you? And now you see, that's the secret. Not the punch you didn't throw or the kicks you didn't land. She really wanted it. Every Slayer has a death wish. Even you.
Spike ,'Conversations with Dead People'
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Jesse - Mar 17, 2008 4:48:21 pm PDT #5196 of 25513
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
le nubian - Mar 17, 2008 5:43:55 pm PDT #5197 of 25513
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Jesse,
7zip is awesome.
ita, what kind of checking do you need to do?
recommendation: go to lifehacker.com and search around their archives. I'm sure you'll find what you need.
§ ita § - Mar 17, 2008 6:02:06 pm PDT #5198 of 25513
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I need to find out how dead my disk is. It went from failing some on chkdsk to undetectable on startup.
le nubian - Mar 17, 2008 6:08:36 pm PDT #5199 of 25513
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
§ ita § - Mar 17, 2008 6:16:51 pm PDT #5200 of 25513
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Thanks, LeN. If I can get it to mount, that sounds like the ticket.
tommyrot - Mar 17, 2008 6:21:54 pm PDT #5201 of 25513
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
ita - I don't have much else to offer... but is the drive still spinning? Have you tried replacing power and/or data cables? Reseated connections?
Kinda stabs in the dark, but easy to try.... (If the drive isn't spinning, there are tricks to getting it going one last time.)
Pix - Mar 17, 2008 6:48:09 pm PDT #5202 of 25513
The status is NOT quo.
After a discouraging Genius Bar experience, I made an expensive decision: time to buy a new laptop. My old one was so trashed that the tech guy declared it DOA. It was going to cost more than $500 to send it out to salvage the hard drive, and I decided that was not worth it. I'd watched ND install a new hard drive just a couple of months ago, so I figured I might be able to do it myself. With some help. We already had the enclosure, after all.
So ND sent me a link to a step-by-step site, and guess what? I disassembled the old laptop, took out the old hard drive, installed it in the enclosure, booted up my new laptop, started the migration process...and it WORKED! I am exceptionally proud of myself right now.
Also poor. Extremely poor.
P.M. Marc - Mar 17, 2008 6:52:10 pm PDT #5203 of 25513
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
P.M. Marc - Mar 17, 2008 6:53:21 pm PDT #5204 of 25513
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Yay, Kristin's data!
I'm glad you were able to rescue it, even if the base machine was toast.
Pix - Mar 17, 2008 7:03:01 pm PDT #5205 of 25513
The status is NOT quo.
I'm glad you were able to rescue it, even if the base machine was toast.
Thanks, I am too. Now I'm fighting with the migration assistant, which decided to make TWO users for me, but the data is there somewhere. Huge relief.