It is 7:30am on a holiday weekend and already I am having a hard day.
The Hard Drive Chronicles Continue…
My RMA’d Hitachi 500 GB hard drive was received by Newegg and the replacement drive arrived today. This time they packaged it with great care with the drive wrapped in bubble wrap in a box that was wrapped in crumpled papers within another box. I feel a little like they may have seen my recent picture of their previous package. Using Hitachi’s tools (a live CD) I have inspected the drive and it passes all tests. Now I am using Clonezilla to restore the image of the 60 GB drive that has been my life blood for much of the past decade. Fingers crossed I can resume working in my dungeon in a few hours and my son won’t have to keep loaning me his laptop. (that laptop has spoiled me…I want one!)
Update: Fail. The dreaded 89%. I have access to the data. Nothing is really lost. I’m just faced with reinstalling Windows and a enormous number of applications.
Of Grasshoppers
Student: How did this happen?
Master: You didn’t do anything different.
Smoky Mountain 75th
September 1 summary
Wrap up of today
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Phone Missing
My phone has gone missing hopefully temporarily. In the meantime, please contact me through email via juggler@gmail.com. skype at djuggler, Twitter @djuggler, or try Google Voice at (865) 686-8693.
Update: Phone recovered. All contact info listed here still valid.
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And I can feel the changes coming on…
Walking through Butler & Bailey, I feel a swell of joy
I sense positive change in my life
As if I am in the process of emerging from a cocoon.
I am calm
I can handle the next part of this journey with ease
I am happy!
I exit the store
To see a dragonfly dying on the sidewalk
Slowly moving its wings for the final time.
I have but one goal today
I have a small project to complete. Today is all about that project.
Windows won’t boot past the logo
In trying to clone my 60 gb hard drive to a 500 gb hard drive, I ran some utilities on the 60 gb hard drive to fix bad sectors and find missing data. Apparently in the process, I damaged something in Windows. Right now the drive will not boot beyond the blue screen with the Windows XP logo in regular mode nor in safe mode. I’m documenting my steps here because the usual troubleshooting steps have failed and I need to make sure I’m not repeating the same steps twice. Continue reading Windows won’t boot past the logo
On the square
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Evening adventure
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Caution!
Busy day ahead!
Of Grasshoppers
Student: One more fight.
Master: Is there a purpose?
Today’s Technical Feat
Today I am installing openssh server on Ubuntu’s Hardy Heron 8.04 LTS which is remarkably easy so that I can use Clonezilla to make an image of a hard drive from one machine, across the network, to Seagate FreeAgent Go 500 GB USB 2.0 Portable External Hard Drive
