I had problems with my main computer the other day, it was acting weird, not a virus. So I also found at that point that my Seagate GoFlex 3TB Desktop drive was malfunctioning.<\/p>\n
I made a new profile in Windows 8.1 and everything was fine, except for that Seagate drive.<\/p>\n
It’s a real downer because ALL my old HD videos are on it. (Raw movies I took with my Sony Handycam since 2008, most recent years I put new ones on my main computer pictures drive.)<\/p>\n
I wasn’t doing anything with them, I’m accruing more and more and more footage all the time, from concerts and festivals, and even that stuff I do hardly anything with. My plan was to get to all that old content when I built my big desktop. I did get that built, but then didn’t get decent software for it until later, and right now nothing is installed because I Refreshed Windows right before I made my new profile this time, and actually did do that for another reason several months ago, and my software has been dormant mostly since then.<\/p>\n
I said all that in order to mean saying, even the Refresh of Windows didn’t fix my profile, I didn’t even think it would, just did it because I like to start over on computers.<\/p>\n
So I tried TestDisk with the drive, and I had limited success in seeing something was still there. I finally made an Ubuntu Live DVD today and was able to use TestDisk to see there was my partition and all the data. Just wouldn’t function as a real drive. I don’t have another 3TB sitting around, so I can’t do anything more until I get a new one.<\/p>\n
I have space I could move some stuff to, but that’s not really an option, unless I piecemeal it somehow, I’d rather clone the drive, a full image, at least. I don’t have that much space in one place, it’d take moving heaven and earth to accumulate it, but I’m not sure I could get enough space anyhow.<\/p>\n
Which brings up another data saving project I was doing long ago, I was able to pull data using Xcopy on another drive, but wanted to fully image it, clone it too. Augggghhhh!<\/p>\n
It’s not a big one, at least, only a 320gb I guess. Ha ha! Storage is so cheap compared to a few years ago. I need to get everything sorted out and onto new storage with backups and backups for the backups.<\/p>\n
Not to mention even my web stuff I’ve not backed up in ages.<\/p>\n
Getting Ubuntu installed was a chore. I installed it in space I made on our HP All in One. To get it dual booting I had to use a grub-repair thing, instructions found online worked out beautifully, but to get to that point I had to install Ubuntu twice. So hours of F’ing around at least I have a decent computer with dual booting now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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