Tip of the Day

[70s_PotHead]

If you have anything on your computer worth saving then back it up cause you never know....my hard drive was less than 2 years old but had 10 years worth of info including allot of my work files, gone in an instant....woke up this morning to the never ending Microsoft blue screen of death Hard drive is toast..... Nothing was backed up, I don't have so much as a e-mail addy right now.
I bought a new hard drive at Best Buy and my son got it installed and XP up and running but I feel so naked, this puter is empty

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[UmphreyMcgee420]

they have people that can recover all that information for you... its costly... but if you need that info they can recover it all..

 

[70s_PotHead]

Thanks Umphrey my son got the same recommendation from one of his online gurus, I dont feel I had anything worth the kind of cost I was quoted, its just going to be a huge incovienence for a while, just losing basic shit like favorites and e-mail addys being gone is going to be a pain in the ass......

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[ChaoticEntity]

Put the hard drive in the freezer overnight, this is often enough to free up the platters, then install it as a secondary drive and transfer as much material as possible to the new drive.

I've used the freezer trick on a non redundent raid array that held ~1.2TB of data and managed to recover the data.

 

[70s_PotHead]

Put the hard drive in the freezer overnight, this is often enough to free up the platters, then install it as a secondary drive and transfer as much material as possible to the new drive.

I've used the freezer trick on a non redundent raid array that held ~1.2TB of data and managed to recover the data.

Yea its installed as a secondary hard drive right now trying to recover using the boot recovery disc, all we get is harddrive not formatted, wont even start in the safe mode. Freezer huh aint got nothing to lose I guess...

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[UmphreyMcgee420]

damn, sorry to hear my man... what were you quoted?

 

[sproutco]

Tip of the day: add dolomite lime to your soil to prevent calcium and magnesium deficiency. Did you expect me to say something different?

 

[Laxpunker]

Tip of the day: add dolomite lime to your soil to prevent calcium and magnesium deficiency. Did you expect me to say something different?

Somehow I think you're secretly sponsored by the Lime industry to whore out their product.

 

[glock23]

My tip of the day: tear the glue off your rolling papers. It'll still stick and it's less crap to smoke.

 

[sproutco]

Somehow I think you're secretly sponsored by the Lime industry to whore out their product.

I am being wry. http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=wry :friends:

 

[Laxpunker]

I am being wry. http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=wry :friends:

I was trying to be witty.
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=Witty&x=0&y=0

However I failed miserably and now I will be emulative.

http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=emulative&q=emulative

 

[glock23]

hehe...you guys are funny. I wish I could get dolomite lime here, but it simply isn't available...

 

[70s_PotHead]

Tip of the day: add dolomite lime to your soil to prevent calcium and magnesium deficiency. Did you expect me to say something different?

LMAO sproutco.....I wonder if it would help bring my hard drive back to life...

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