A Pox, I Say!
A pox on all makers of disk drives and designers of file systems!
A pox! Yes, while I was backing up everything on my Windows box so that I could attempt to convince it that the boot disk was not the G drive and that the system disk was not that spare disk I installed one day with a certain amount of comfort that I would not lose every last one of my files, my trusty* external disk decided that it didn't want to play any more. Well, it decided it was going to make some unhappy noises and refuse to write anything more and Windows decided that that was a good enough excuse to lock up completely. So I've now pressed my emergency back-up Linux box into play. It's built up out of all the spare parts I have lying around from previous systems, and it has so far stubbornly refused to die. Of course, it's old and clunky and slow, but it actually works. So now I can copy all my files onto that, reformat everything attached to my Windows box, reinstall Windows for the third time in a week, and then copy everything back again. Joy. Then I'm going to buy me a UPS. * It hasn't suffered massive file corruption for, like, months.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at 10:30 PM
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Pixy;
Don't you image your windows install after you first create it? At least then it's just a file copy, instead of a 2.5 hour install to get it back...
Don't you image your windows install after you first create it? At least then it's just a file copy, instead of a 2.5 hour install to get it back...
Posted by: Light & Dark at September 18, 2004 11:32 AM (eT6wp)
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You might find this useful when it comes time to pick out a UPS: UPS Info.
MGE makes the Rolls Royce of UPSes, but you'll pay a little more for them. The company also fully supports the open source community and has made full technical specifications available. Unlike APC, which has become a bit too secretive in my opinion.
MGE makes the Rolls Royce of UPSes, but you'll pay a little more for them. The company also fully supports the open source community and has made full technical specifications available. Unlike APC, which has become a bit too secretive in my opinion.
Posted by: Rossz at September 18, 2004 04:10 PM (n5Jbg)
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