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 Linux, I suppose it’s just the effect of being in a different environment. It’s really hard to get things done with this sort of feeling. It’s a bit like jet lag I guess.
Tag Archives: hard drive
404 Errors
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.
Stuff
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 of the reviews said things about the drive being DOA or dying shortly after installation. So, trying not to panic, I tried using different data and power cables. Which thankfully worked. But like an idiot, I switched out both at the same time so I don’t know which it was. I’m thinking it was the power cable though because it was using a whatever-to-SATA adapter, which I switched to my PSU’s only SATA power plug.
Also, the 200GB hard drive I had Linux installed on decided to jump on the death bandwagon and die too. Unlike the other hard drive that died, this one had things on it that I will miss. Although they are probably replaceable. So now I have to figure out how I want to install Linux. I’m thinking of trying out Ubuntu. I had Gentoo installed before. I like Gentoo, but it’s much better as a server than desktop because people don’t generally want to have to recompile their kernel when they decide to install a CD burner or the like. (I’m not saying it’s completely necessary, blah blah…) Some people just want it to work. And you can’t say I’m lazy cause my server runs Gentoo. 
Borked
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 there so that’s a good thing.
My new drive is on the way and should get here sometime this week. Seagate 500GB SATA in case you were wondering.
In other news, my site was down for a while because of router/connection problems.
What do I do with my old hard drives?
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 email me at ortzinator [at] gmail [dot] com.
Fun with Electricity!
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 again into Windows and it worked fine. :X So now I’m thinking it’s my PSU acting crazy. Which sucks because it’s only like 3 months old.
Then, abeit unrelated, the wires on my front case fan must’ve shorted out (when I got the case, it had cut the wires somehow, so I had to solder them together) because shortly after plugging it back in and moving my case back into place, my carpet started smoking. (The side of the case wasn’t on, so it was lying on the carpet.) So I had to put a fan in the window and evacuate my room until the smoke was out. Great fun.