On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 2:37 PM, David C. Rankin drankinatty@suddenlinkmail.com wrote:
Good luck Kristopher.
With 2.5 & 3.5 inch drives so cheap these days, It always pays to have a backup sitting in your desk drawer. Hope you get it going soon. One word of caution -- If you think it is a drive issue, then don't run that drive any more than possible.
Doesn't seem like it will run at all. Sounds like the head may be bouncing off the platters or something.
How cheap can they be? I'm using a SATA laptop drive, don't have it with me to check the dimensions, but I'm hoping to get a large one -- I plan to have two distributions installed, one for development stuff (which will be the larger partition), and one for just normal use whenever I don't have time for fixing stuff.
I have had most success in this area by just removing the drive when I get the first indication of failure. I install a new drive, then I use a USB -> IDE/SATA adapter to start the old drive and copy the data to the new box.
The USB adapter runs ~ $14, provides its own power supply and has 2.5 and 3.5 inch IDE data connectors as well as SATA. The adapter provides ~ 33 MB/s (2G/min) 'actual' throughput and can be real a life saver. Not to mention, it allow you to use any old hard drive as a 'zip drive'
I've got my important stuff on DVD already. The more time-consuming part will be grabbing TDE svn again, that is the one part I didn't put on backup because it will be changing a lot for awhile.