Comments on: A Word To The Wise http://www.chiriquichatter.net/blog/2009/01/06/a-word-to-the-wise/ "Dream as if you'll live forever, live as if you'll die today." - James Dean Fri, 12 Mar 2010 17:14:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Don Ray http://www.chiriquichatter.net/blog/2009/01/06/a-word-to-the-wise/comment-page-1/#comment-47021 Don Ray Fri, 13 Mar 2009 23:58:15 +0000 http://www.chiriquichatter.net/blog/?p=4143#comment-47021 Hi Kevin. Thanks for taking the time to leave a comment. No I haven't used BartPE. I only have played with the <a href="http://www.newlinuxuser.com/the-perfect-os-x-dock-for-linux/" rel="nofollow">AWN dock</a>. It seemed pretty good, but I continue to just stick with KDE. Hi Kevin. Thanks for taking the time to leave a comment.

No I haven’t used BartPE.

I only have played with the AWN dock. It seemed pretty good, but I continue to just stick with KDE.

]]> By: Kevin http://www.chiriquichatter.net/blog/2009/01/06/a-word-to-the-wise/comment-page-1/#comment-47020 Kevin Fri, 13 Mar 2009 23:48:07 +0000 http://www.chiriquichatter.net/blog/?p=4143#comment-47020 Hi Don, It's been awhile since I have contributed. Have you or Tuxi ever used a BartPE bootable disk to recover Windoze XP. I have a friend who is a computer forensics expert who made me one. Worked like a charm on my wifes IBM T30 with a dead hard drive. Directions are available on the net. Oh, bye the way, upgraded to Hardy Heron on my IBM T30 and gave it the Apple Leopard look with the SIM dock. I get lots of questions form people inquiring about how I put Apple OSX on my Thinkpad. Take care, Kevin Hi Don,
It’s been awhile since I have contributed. Have you or Tuxi ever used a BartPE bootable disk to recover Windoze XP. I have a friend who is a computer forensics expert who made me one. Worked like a charm on my wifes IBM T30 with a dead hard drive.

Directions are available on the net. Oh, bye the way, upgraded to Hardy Heron on my IBM T30 and gave it the Apple Leopard look with the SIM dock. I get lots of questions form people inquiring about how I put Apple OSX on my Thinkpad.

Take care,
Kevin

]]> By: Don Ray http://www.chiriquichatter.net/blog/2009/01/06/a-word-to-the-wise/comment-page-1/#comment-45913 Don Ray Wed, 07 Jan 2009 13:31:30 +0000 http://www.chiriquichatter.net/blog/?p=4143#comment-45913 Tuxi. This is a Toshiba laptop that was new in 2002. When I tried to use the Toshiba recovery CDs, they tried to install Windows 98. The PC was purchased with Windows XP. Not wanting 98 and not wanting to invest a lot of money bring this PC back to life, I am using the new openSUSE 11.1 and installing KDE 4.1. It is in the middle of the install process, but seems to be going OK. How much trouble I have getting everything working will be the next problem. Well, it still would not boot after the install, so I am assuming the hard drive is bad. I am going to take another drive and try it in the laptop, If that works, I will believe it was really the drive, If it doesn't I will say it is something else in the laptop and it time to pitch the laptop. This laptop probably cost $1,200 new and you can get a better one now for $600. Tuxi. This is a Toshiba laptop that was new in 2002. When I tried to use the Toshiba recovery CDs, they tried to install Windows 98. The PC was purchased with Windows XP. Not wanting 98 and not wanting to invest a lot of money bring this PC back to life, I am using the new openSUSE 11.1 and installing KDE 4.1.

It is in the middle of the install process, but seems to be going OK. How much trouble I have getting everything working will be the next problem.

Well, it still would not boot after the install, so I am assuming the hard drive is bad. I am going to take another drive and try it in the laptop, If that works, I will believe it was really the drive, If it doesn’t I will say it is something else in the laptop and it time to pitch the laptop. This laptop probably cost $1,200 new and you can get a better one now for $600.

]]> By: Don Ray http://www.chiriquichatter.net/blog/2009/01/06/a-word-to-the-wise/comment-page-1/#comment-45911 Don Ray Wed, 07 Jan 2009 12:34:06 +0000 http://www.chiriquichatter.net/blog/?p=4143#comment-45911 Hi Scott. I have two external USB backup drives. One is 80 GB, which fits in a shirt pocket and doesn't require a powersupply and an other 500GB that has an external PS. Thanks for taking the time to comment. Hi Scott. I have two external USB backup drives. One is 80 GB, which fits in a shirt pocket and doesn’t require a powersupply and an other 500GB that has an external PS. Thanks for taking the time to comment.

]]> By: Scott http://www.chiriquichatter.net/blog/2009/01/06/a-word-to-the-wise/comment-page-1/#comment-45910 Scott Wed, 07 Jan 2009 12:30:59 +0000 http://www.chiriquichatter.net/blog/?p=4143#comment-45910 BACKUP, BACKUP, BACKUP! I use a WD Passport Elite 500GB usb powered external drive for my backups. No power supply to deal with, small and very portable. It's perfect for backing up or transferring data to another PC! http://www.wdc.com/en/products/index.asp?cat=9&language=en Best prices on Ebay! BACKUP, BACKUP, BACKUP!
I use a WD Passport Elite 500GB usb powered external drive for my backups. No power supply to deal with, small and very portable. It’s perfect for backing up or transferring data to another PC!
http://www.wdc.com/en/products/index.asp?cat=9&language=en
Best prices on Ebay!

]]> By: tuxi http://www.chiriquichatter.net/blog/2009/01/06/a-word-to-the-wise/comment-page-1/#comment-45905 tuxi Wed, 07 Jan 2009 03:38:10 +0000 http://www.chiriquichatter.net/blog/?p=4143#comment-45905 Don Ray, A followup would be great. It sounds like the person either had some bad sectors (a lot) or the drive was dying of other causes. I was able to get all the data of a drive of my wife's using an external enclosure and USB after the disk diagnostics from the <a href="http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/" rel="nofollow">Ultimate Boot CD</a> said it was a dead disk. It wouldn't surprise me if the shop replaced the disk. Don Ray,

A followup would be great. It sounds like the person either had some bad sectors (a lot) or the drive was dying of other causes. I was able to get all the data of a drive of my wife’s using an external enclosure and USB after the disk diagnostics from the Ultimate Boot CD said it was a dead disk. It wouldn’t surprise me if the shop replaced the disk.

]]> By: Don Ray http://www.chiriquichatter.net/blog/2009/01/06/a-word-to-the-wise/comment-page-1/#comment-45899 Don Ray Wed, 07 Jan 2009 01:26:17 +0000 http://www.chiriquichatter.net/blog/?p=4143#comment-45899 Hi Rob. Looks like it is oriented to Microsoft users, which would have taken care of the person I just recovered files for. Hi Rob. Looks like it is oriented to Microsoft users, which would have taken care of the person I just recovered files for.

]]> By: Rob Alan http://www.chiriquichatter.net/blog/2009/01/06/a-word-to-the-wise/comment-page-1/#comment-45898 Rob Alan Wed, 07 Jan 2009 00:46:12 +0000 http://www.chiriquichatter.net/blog/?p=4143#comment-45898 Don Ray, I use Carbonite (www.carbonite.com) to continuously back up all of my files on my PC. I have had to do a partial & a full resore (to a new disk drive) with no problems. I also run a disk to disk backup once a week. Rob Don Ray,
I use Carbonite (www.carbonite.com) to continuously back up all of my files on my PC. I have had to do a partial & a full resore (to a new disk drive) with no problems. I also run a disk to disk backup once a week.
Rob

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