So by default there's nothing free to compress in Windows, right?
As far as I know, yeah.
Well, you'd better not be thinking what I think you're thinking, because my answer is the same as always — no threesomes unless it's boy-boy-girl. Or Charlize Theron.
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Jesse - Mar 17, 2008 4:48:21 pm PDT #5196 of 25501
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
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.
Pix - Mar 17, 2008 7:03:01 pm PDT #5205 of 25501
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.