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Roger Wright26-Feb-15 4:23

26-Feb-15 4:23

Neither scandisk nor chkdsk will run; both bail out. The recommended fix is to Restore to a date when the problem wasn't happening, but I have no idea how far back that might be. But once I get the new drives installed and the files transferred, I'll reformat this one and make a portable of it.

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Mark_Wallace26-Feb-15 4:36

Mark_Wallace

26-Feb-15 4:36

A real case of the Murphy's -- it's broke, and so are the tools to fix it.

I got one of these[^] for days like that (and for the pile of "spare drives" that has grown way too high, over the years).

It's cool to be able to plug a drive into a different machine without opening boxes and fiddling with cables.

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Cornelius Henning26-Feb-15 2:25

26-Feb-15 2:25

If you are installing a Western Digital drive: Download a free copy of the WD version of Acronis from the WD website. With Acronis you can make an image of your systems drive from time to time. This means you can restore your systems drive to exactly what it was at a certain point in the past in about 10 to 15 minutes. You can even restore it to a completely new drive. Acronis creates a bootable CD that has all the software to install the image on any drive. It is more dependable than System Restore (and more flexible). I snap an image after every major Windows upgrade. By the way: The free WD Acronis only works if it sees a WD drive attached to the machine. If you don't have a WD drive, you can buy the full version of Acronis.

I must say that I have been using only WD drives in many machines at home and at work, and have never regretted this choice.

Roger Wright26-Feb-15 4:25

26-Feb-15 4:25

I'm definitely planning to get the Acronis product; that's a tool long overdue on my machine!

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Cornelius Henning26-Feb-15 4:29

26-Feb-15 4:29

I have been using it for many years with good results. The user interface is a little counter-intuitive and takes getting used to, but the software does its job!

Cornelius Henning26-Feb-15 4:32

26-Feb-15 4:32

One more thing: When taking an image, it must be stored on a drive different from the drive you are imaging. I have a separate drive that connects through a USB 3 port and that works fine. USB 2 also works, but is slow when doing a 40 or 50 GB image.

Mike Hankey26-Feb-15 3:05

Mike Hankey

26-Feb-15 3:05

Is a fresh install possible? Since you're starting from scratch, so to speak you don't want to copy over problems if any. Fresh install and copy data!

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Roger Wright26-Feb-15 4:28

26-Feb-15 4:28

I could probably do that, but I really don't want to take the time to re-install everything, especially since I'm not sure where all the CDs might be hiding. Some of the stuff I have is rather hard to install, like ESRI ARCInfo. What I may take the time to do is to clean things up by removing files I don't need - I can do that in a few evenings after work, I think - then make an Acronis image on one of my portable drives, from there it should be a snap to get it working again.

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Mike Hankey26-Feb-15 5:07

Mike Hankey

26-Feb-15 5:07

Yeah I know it's a PITA, takes forever to get things back to the way they were!

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Cornelius Henning26-Feb-15 5:28

26-Feb-15 5:28

After taking an Acronis image: Use Acronis to verify the image. Images are large - mine are around 40 GB - and one bit out of place in the image will ruin it. I rarely do get an image that fails to verify, rendering it useless. This is probably due to defect on the drive, more than a fault of the software. It is just worth while to verify!

Roger Wright2-Mar-15 17:39

2-Mar-15 17:39

You seem to be fairly up to date on this, so I ask, if I'm upgrading to a RAID 1 array using the hardware and BIOS level configuration, will the WD version of Acronis work? The documentation says that this version doesn't support RAID arays, but it seems to me that, if this is done in hardware, the Acronis will 'see' it as a single drive. Is that correct?

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l a u r e n26-Feb-15 5:44

l a u r e n

26-Feb-15 5:44

let's see... 24Gb RAM and 2Tb HDD.... hmmmmm... *might* be enough to run chrome with a couple of tabs open
Roll eyes | :rolleyes:

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Cornelius Henning26-Feb-15 5:57

26-Feb-15 5:57

Quote:
*might* be enough to run chrome with a couple of tabs open

You are maybe a little optimistic?

Roger Wright26-Feb-15 16:24

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-02-26/nt-woman-lights-fire-to-scare-snake-burns-down-caravan/6265968[^]

26-Feb-15 16:24

I wouldn't want to run short, lauren. That's why I also keep a pair of 1 TB USB drives handy; they're slow, but hold a lot of naughty pictures! Wink | ;)

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Set up to fail?

User 5924125-Feb-15 18:39

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25-Feb-15 18:39

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JimmyRopes25-Feb-15 20:05

JimmyRopes

25-Feb-15 20:05

story said:
A plan devised after a few "cold drinks" to drive a snake out of a caravan has not ended well at property in Darwin's rural area.

The opening sentence says it all. D'Oh! | :doh:

I might add she lived near Humpty Doo. Big Grin | :-D

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Super Lloyd25-Feb-15 21:33

Super Lloyd

25-Feb-15 21:33

Pff... this news don't even have a croc in it!
Must have been a slow news day! Poke tongue | ;-P

At least she had a drink, that's the local way! Laugh | :laugh:

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Mark_Wallace25-Feb-15 22:27

Mark_Wallace

25-Feb-15 22:27

Where was that?

"in Darwin's rural area"

Where?

"in Darwin's rural area"

Hold on, could you repeat that? I thought you said...

"in Darwin's rural area"

Oh.

OK.

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