Got my hard drive on Monday, so by now I’m pretty settled in. I know it sounds like I’m moving to a new house or something, but for the past two weeks I’ve been using Linux on my server, and I’ve felt like I’ve had a bag over my head. This is absolutely nothing against [...]
Sorry about the 404 errors, it’s all been fixed.
Please contact me if you see anything else wrong, I’ve been doing a lot of updating and reconfiguring on my server while waiting for my hard drive. Which gets here Monday BTW. Finally.
One of those miscellaneous blog posts…
So yesterday my fresh Windows installation on a new hard drive started freezing on me. Not only that, but I was getting write errors. (Little yellow popup in the corner saying Windows couldn’t write something to the hard drive.) I was afraid that it was dying, especially since a lot [...]
Well my laziness got me in trouble again.
I didn’t want to move my Windows installation off my old 60GB IDE hard drive, and of course it died on me.
Fortunately I didn’t lose much. Just Windows, and my Winamp and mIRC installations. Plus a few apps. Although I can’t even remember what I had installed on [...]
So I’ve got like 6 10GB hard drives that I’ll never use. What do I do with them?
I was thinking maybe I could use the magnets or the motor for something.
(I know about the hard drive speakers thing, I don’t think I’ll do that.)
So any ideas? If you don’t want to comment below, you can [...]
First of all, I thought my hard drive died. It started flipping on and off repeatedly, and when I rebooted I got a “unmountable boot volume” BSOD. But then I booted into Linux, which mounted the partition fine. Then I ran WD’s diagnostic utility and it didn’t find any errors. Thoroughly confused, I rebooted [...]