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Chewy, the card is bootable; I have booted into WXP from it after cloning. It is W98 that won't boot. I installed the driver for the SATA card into W98 and WXP before cloning, so not a problem there. It is the multi-boot aspect that's getting screwed up. The CloneZilla ISO images don't seem to...

To clarify: Boot drive is an 80GB WD Data drive is a 120GB WD. This is dying. Both are PATA drives. Since I don't have any spare PATA drives, I have to use a spare 250GB SATA drive. I do have a PCI SATA controller with 2 ports lying around. My intention is to clone the 80 GB system drive to...

Folks, I need to replace a failing HDD. This is not the system drive, but drive 2. However, both drives are very old, and I'd like to make the newer drive going in there the system drive. Once this is up and running, I will make the previous system drive the new data drive and junk the data...

It's the same all over the world. How these dumbos are elected to power would make a fascinating doctoral thesis. It's probably because the good ones don't want to get into the filthy waters.

Ed Orcutt, a Republican member of the House of Representatives in Washington State. He argued for a fee for bicycles to help pay for street infrastructure, but hit the brakes on Monday after much ridicule and outrage. a) How do these dumb asses get elected? b) Since when is a Republican...

My Nokia E71 (in those days, it was the smartphone!) is now 4+ years old. The biggest drawback to it is the slimy body; highly polished stainless steel that picks up finger oils and becomes slimy. I've dropped it numerous times on hard surfaces like concrete and cement, at speed (whipping it out...

Somebody else posted a link to this video quite a while back; DD or Merc or someone else. Makes me nauseous just to see the video. Those guys are so nonchalant about it, though. Likewise construction, electrician types who clamber to the tops of buildings. I'd think at those heights, the guys...

Glad you're ok, Chewy!

A man of many talents! Kudos, DD.

If cycle helmets are only marginally effective, why not wear motorcycle helmets? I agree they're bigger, bulkier, heavier, etc., but if the situation warrants?

DD likes to live dangerously.

You guys take life too seriously. This'll help put things in perspective: The Hubble Deep Field: The Most Important Image Ever Taken

Just what is it with you guys there?? Even my ISPs here are night & day better; normal response is half a day, extended response is one day (even if I call Saturday night). This is with the private phone/DSL ISP. The govt. telco is a bit worse - a couple of days to respond.

Lawyers as friends? Ain't no such thing! Just kidding. A niece and a nephew are lawyers.

Can't you guys say something provocative to make Handy come back? Still feel like a limb or eye is missing since he's not around.

That sucks, Coug. Anything that is not a letter / document will have problems of some kind or the other across borders. To assume it won't is plain wrong. Most of the times, the bloke at the shipper's local office won't even have shipped across borders, and will not have a clue as to what might...

And so, the Gods have spoken... Are these things learned only the hard way? Seems like a rather painful learning curve.

++1 to what DD said; he makes total sense. Spoken like a man who's won these types of battles! The good thing, Coug, is that things are now at an inflection point that you can take advantage of.

We should all get together and gift Merc shares in and a complete suite of products from WD & NVidia :-D

That's the way it is in a lot of businesses, Coug. Sometimes it's frustrating as hell. But time is on your side. These servers are near the end of their life. Flip the problem on its head, and you have a great opportunity to show these people how to do it right, save them money, and become a...

Had a lot of fun on this website. Creator has time and a sense of humor!

I find it exceedingly difficult to sign the occasional check, even worse if I have to fill out a form. The keyboard has become the friend, the pen the enemy. One of these days, one of my checks will be dishonored because "signature does not match".

Right; be careful what you wish for! Not dying could be a curse too. In some scriptural epics (in my culture), the very very good are blessed with eternal life (I suppose in a good way), and some very bad ones damned to eternal life. The latter wish to die and end it all, but can't. The most...

Just back after seeing Lincoln. Loved it.

Sheesh. You should outright publish this story on your website, Tannin. Of all the things difficult to understand, hitting the poorest of the poor, the weakest of the weak, the sickest patient - these defy all understanding. Sick bastards. I don't know how they can sleep at night.

Had to happen sooner or later. Wife had an email in her spam folder that read "You have an invitation to join Fu*kbook".

Am thinking I'm glad I stayed with Win-7... Never been one to be on the bleeding edge. Last wave of the trailing edge, in fact :)

I believe you have to write a script to truly power off a Win 8 machine. I can find the source for you if you want the details.

No place I know of. I was referring to the changing climates all over.

Looks like the big giant in the sky shook this snowglobe called earth hard.

Thanks Tannin and Howell, I'll check them out. I agree with Tannin, that it's the useless *it that's added that makes them a pain to use and clutter up a nice, clean, lean install!

The first time I faced this problem (got off Compuserve), I started using a 3rd party email forwarding service for ~ $15 a year and handing out that email address to everyone. At will one could change where the 3rd party forwarded your mail to. Subsequently I discontinued the 3rd party service...

I read somewhere that Win 8 never really shuts down when you ask it to; it just goes into some kind of deep sleep, which is why it "boots" so quickly. I believe you have to write a script for it to power off.

Sheesh, I shot coffee out of my nostrils reading that!

Coug, sure you're not a penguin? :)

Thanks; I was talking about -30C. The coldest I've been in is about -9.5C in Connecticut in Feb 2009. Spent barely a few mins outside, hotel room to car, car to office and back. Somebody else was driving (thankfully). Saw many cars kissing poles and trees. I can imagine how catastrophic it...

Yeah, but a Raid-5 rebuild will stop when an URE is encountered. In Raid-10, this may be a "silent error", but at least the rest of the data is recovered. Pick your problem.

What special precautions does one need to take in temperatures like that to keep the car and house going?

I found these enlightening: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAID#Problems_with_RAID http://www.miracleas.com/BAARF/BAARF2.html. A whole movement against RAID (5, 6, Z and 51)! Art Kagel's articles (on the left side) are worth reading. I am beginning to think Raid-10 is the safest. The one big...

As drive capacities go up, UREs (Unrecoverable Errors) also are, spelling disaster during Raid recovery processes. The highest capacities I've stumbled on for Raid drives these days are 900 GB (this is for Dell NAS systems). Of course manufacturers (WD, Hitachi, Seagate) list drives up to 4 TB...

Can be used in another country with different carriers (if unlocked) ?

Oof! Glad you are ok. Cars can always be repaired.

No idea what you mean by 86° BC. I meant degrees F.

Consistent high of ~ 86 here :)

sdbardwick, that's awesome! I learned something very useful today, thank you very much!

IIRC such programs have always been commercial. But then, I'm pretty much out of touch with much that is happening out there.

Thanks Tannin.

This is unbelievable! Tell that to Obama!

I don't know about that. Surprise him by calling and let's get this over with. Then we can talk about Audis and porn, cats 'n stuff. BTW, a stray adopted us a month ago and littered this morning in a box we provided. Don't yet know how many little ones.

Weird. The forum is removing blank lines and concatenating text. I edited the above post three times, trying to get the last sentence in a new paragraph. What gives?