Crazy Wiring, Part 5I should take pictures of my new job and submit. It's not all I.T. wiring, but equally harrowing in places.
Murk: But you're a God! The Sacred Glorificus! Glory: I'm a God in exile. Far from the Hellfires of Home and sharing my body with an enemy that stabs my boys in their fleshy little stomachs!
'Dirty Girls'
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omnis_audis - Aug 18, 2008 8:51:05 pm PDT #7445 of 25501
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir
Theodosia - Aug 19, 2008 4:32:08 am PDT #7446 of 25501
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
I got my desktop computer back from MicroCenter and my data is secure! And it works! And so on...
Except that I used to have a 640Gb hard drive partitioned into two equal size drives of ~320Gb... and now I only seem to see one ~320Gb (which shows 288Gb in Windows Explorer, but IIRC that's normal).
My question is... is this something that I can fix here at home, or had I better get on the horn back to MicroCenter and start complaining pronto?
DCJensen - Aug 19, 2008 5:13:04 am PDT #7447 of 25501
All is well that ends in pizza.
complain, first.
Theodosia - Aug 19, 2008 5:35:01 am PDT #7448 of 25501
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
I keep thinking there should be something deep in the Control Panel that will fix it with a couple clicks. But if nobody here knows that offhand (given the Buffista general level of expertise), I KNOW I'm DOOMED to probably have to take the Damnthing back, a day after I got it home again.
SIGH
Sean K - Aug 19, 2008 5:43:23 am PDT #7449 of 25501
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
I should take pictures of my new job and submit. It's not all I.T. wiring, but equally harrowing in places.
This is one reason I'm a tiny bit bummed I've been promoted from Crew Lead to Associate Designer for Halloween this year -- my crew's cable runs looked better than everybody else's. The higher-ups even said as much.
Of course, we burned through probably three times the zip ties of any other team in order to make that happen....
Jon B. - Aug 19, 2008 9:13:56 am PDT #7450 of 25501
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
Except that I used to have a 640Gb hard drive partitioned into two equal size drives of ~320Gb... and now I only seem to see one ~320Gb (which shows 288Gb in Windows Explorer, but IIRC that's normal)
Was there data on the second partition? If not, you should take a look in Control Panel >> Administrative Tools >> Computer Management >> Disc management And see if there's a partition that's not active.
If there was data on the second partition, then go straight back to MicroCenter.
Theodosia - Aug 19, 2008 10:38:23 am PDT #7451 of 25501
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
Thanks, Jon! I tried and it's stubbornly telling me that it only has 320. So there'll be a trip back to the store in just a little while longer....
erikaj - Aug 19, 2008 11:37:15 am PDT #7452 of 25501
Always Anti-fascist!
My antivirus detected a thing it called a POSSIBLE_HFIRM(or something like that) but it couldn't remove it(I've got the company working on it, too,ftr) Computer seems fine...but I've just been through Virus Hell...how much should I be concerned about this?
omnis_audis - Aug 19, 2008 7:46:09 pm PDT #7453 of 25501
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir
Of course, we burned through probably three times the zip ties of any other team in order to make that happen....zip ties are cheap, awesome cable runs are priceless. Seems like a good deal to me. Especially where safety is involved.
NoiseDesign - Aug 19, 2008 8:07:01 pm PDT #7454 of 25501
Our wings are not tired
I'll be buying extra zip ties this year.