So by default there's nothing free to compress in Windows, right? We need to get everyone to broadband with big thumb drives so we never zip again.
I'm going to see to Wesley, see if he's still whimpering.
Giles ,'Chosen'
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§ ita § - Mar 17, 2008 4:44:55 pm PDT #5195 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Jesse - Mar 17, 2008 4:48:21 pm PDT #5196 of 25501
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
So by default there's nothing free to compress in Windows, right?
As far as I know, yeah.
le nubian - Mar 17, 2008 5:43:55 pm PDT #5197 of 25501
"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 25501
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 25501
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
§ ita § - Mar 17, 2008 6:16:51 pm PDT #5200 of 25501
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 25501
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 25501
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 25501
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 25501
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.