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What the fuck is wrong with my computer.
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It's not hard to assemble but I wouldn't go around saying it's like lego.
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Also put that shit in the freezer if it's dead. You might get ten minutes of new life out of it, enough time to grab some files.
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Has anyone successfully cloned a 360 hard drive and extended it's partition? I've been rocking this 12 gig one for the longest and I don't really think it's necessary to pay what microsoft is asking for what is essentially a laptop hard drive. I have looked through google but info on cloning is sparce. I have access to all the equipment I'd need and a bootable instance of Ghost. I'm just wondering if I have to do anything special to the drive beforehand, ie flash the firmware. I'd rather not redownload all the content.
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Let me know how that works out Joel, I have been interested in getting a new hard drive to replace my old 12 gig one but paying $120 always seemed a little steep.
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You got a i7-2700K for 120 bucks? Those things cost over 300 euro's here. So that's like $450 or whatever.
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if you have spare ports on Xbox you can always just use up to 2 16 GB flash drives to boost space.
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The Joel said:
Has anyone successfully cloned a 360 hard drive and extended it's partition? I've been rocking this 12 gig one for the longest and I don't really think it's necessary to pay what microsoft is asking for what is essentially a laptop hard drive. I have looked through google but info on cloning is sparce. I have access to all the equipment I'd need and a bootable instance of Ghost. I'm just wondering if I have to do anything special to the drive beforehand, ie flash the firmware. I'd rather not redownload all the content.
Flash the firmware? doubtful but I think there is some kind of custom code that you need on there before it will work. You should be able to use a guide for putting a larger hd in and then just copying the dataz over.
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Mozesh said:
You got a i7-2700K for 120 bucks? Those things cost over 300 euro's here. So that's like $450 or whatever.
Whaaat.
I work in retail and we have training sites made by intel. They had a holiday promotion so I got 2700k for $120 ($150 with shipping)
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Last night my computer restarted and now it can't boot windows. Internet seems to think HD problem. I got no idea how to fix it.
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Do you have another computer available? If possible, grab an adapter, pull the drive, and test the HD. If it checks out you can use test disk to recover a lost partition or just run chkdsk.
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Yakov: IDE or SATA?
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SATA I think.
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Ah hell. I have an IDE to USB enclosure, but not a SATA. Sorry.
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That sort of thing is mad cheap. If you have another desktop you can probably just scavenge a cable and hook the drive up to that. On boot it will be visible if it isn't dead.
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Got it in the second computer. How do I check the disk for problems? In captain dummy talk please.
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You need to identify the drive in "My Computer". Once you know the drive letter, you can open command prompt (start "cmd") and then type "chkdsk n: /f" without the quotes and with N being the letter of your drive. If you get a shitload of unreadable sectors, the drive is most likely dead. You might be able to recover some data, but that is a more lengthy set of instructions. As Dave said before, if it doesn't work at first, throw the drive in the freezer for a few hours and try again.
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Who figured out that you could put a hard drive into a freezer to make it work? That sounds insane.
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If the drive does not automatically show up in 'My Computer', you should check if it appears in Disk Management. If the drive is NTFS formatted, then the second machine might not immediately mount it with a drive letter and label it "foreign". If so, then you just need to initialize the drive and Windows should play nice with it from there.
To get to Disk Management, just type "diskmgmt.msc" in Start > Run, or in the "Search programs and files" field after clicking the Start button and press Enter. The bottom half of that dialog will display all of the physical drives. If one is there that is labeled "(foreign)", that's your daisy. Right-click on it, and there should be an "Import foreign disks" option. Select that and run through the wizard that comes up, and the drive should mount from there.
Chances are this won't be necessary, but if the disk was converted from "basic" to "dynamic" in the past, then this would be required. More than likely, Joel's directions should be sufficient though. -
If you don't see the disk in my computer, the shit gets real. Like loss of all data real. It could be a corrupted partition, in which case testdisk, as with Feddy, is your friend.
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I had a similar thing happen. Never did figure it out.
Note: WinXP SP2 does not have the ability to read a SATA hard drive. As a result of this I now have Windows 7. -
Whaaaaaa, that can't be true. Are you sure it wasn't an issue with the bios config? I've definitely had Win XP on SATA.
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Got to have special drivers that aren't included in the OS. So if you are doing a fresh install you have to make sure the drivers are on the disc. Which usually means you have to make your own install disc.
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Is chkdsk supposed to take a long time to run?
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Depending on the size, yes. What does the read out say?
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I want to jump in and mention that if you're in corrupted partition territory, you may be able to recover the files by using Linux. I've successfully done this twice before - I am by no means a Linux expert, but basically I just used a Linux boot CD (I think it was a Knoppix distro), mounted the drive, copied all the files over to a working drive, and patted myself on the back for good measure. This was (one time, at least) on a hard drive that Windows refused to boot from due to corruption. I think the second time, there was actual physical failure involved and I could only get about half of the files, but that was still better than nothing.
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With physical failure, you content yourself with any byte you manage to extract. I will forever lament the simultaneous deaths of two hard drives in two separate machines. I thought having my backups on another machine would be secure. I thought incorrectly.
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Digitalguardian said:
Who figured out that you could put a hard drive into a freezer to make it work? That sounds insane.
So my understanding of this phenomenon is that what causes some hard drives to die is that the platters get stuck or obstructed such that the heads cannot read them correctly, thus putting the drive in the freezer makes all the pieces get colder and shrink a tiny bit which then, occasionally allows the drives platters to spin normally for a short time.
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Ha! It's like the reverse of the Xbox 360 towel trick.
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So for some reason I am unable to fathom my laptop is incredibly temperamental about what DVDs it will and will not read; I've bought movies brand new (such as Redline just yesterday) that it is unable to read, to the point where it doesn't even recognize that there's a disc in the drive, despite the fact that the discs don't have a scratch on them (and obviously are the right region). And yet I have a whole bunch it will read with no problem, some of which have some wear. The fuck? It's a Gateway NV79 for whatever that may be worth.
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might be a dirty laser thing, or the laser may be out of adjustment, something to do with the laser something something laser laser. No easy way to take care of something like that.
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Have you tried a lens cleaner? Every so often that actually helps.
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No, but I shall. Can I pick one up at Staples or someplace like that?
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Yeah, you can get them just about anywhere. Office supply, electronics store, music store, and probably even the grocery store anymore. Any place that has something resembling an electronics section should have them.
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So I tried the hard drive in the freezer thing, and it totally worked for about 15 minutes. Unfortunately the data I wanted wasn't accessable or was corrupted.
