Thursday, September 4, 2014

Troubleshooting GPT Protective Partition Issues

Ran into this problem again moving my 840 EVO from my Mac to PC.
Cannot remove or delete GPT protective partition via disk manager in Windows.

This is how to fix it or get rid of it:

http://knowledge.seagate.com/articles/en_US/FAQ/207837en?language=en_US


Tuesday, April 29, 2014

Storage Spaces

Some tips on working with the new Storage spaces feature of Windows:

http://blogs.technet.com/b/josebda/archive/2014/04/01/step-by-step-for-mirrored-storage-spaces-resiliency-using-powershell.aspx

A demonstration of the first web browser, the Nexus browser

Tuesday, April 15, 2014

The CRPG Addict: Game 142: The Valley (1982)

The CRPG Addict: Game 142: The Valley (1982): The Valley Argus Press Software (developer and publisher) Published 1982 as code in Computing Today ; commercial versions relea...

Wednesday, April 2, 2014

Tuesday, March 25, 2014

TLDR what's the deal?

Should You Use TLER Drives In Your RAID NAS? 

 Bottom line seems to be not if you are using software raid since it's more forgiving and waits longer on drives before marking them bad.

 

Sunday, March 23, 2014

Recover files from Failed Buffalo Hard Disk

 

namely a Buffalo LinkStation 421e

1. Remove drive from Linkstation

2. attach drive to PC

3. boot PC with Knoppix CD

4. open terminal and type:

 parted -l

to make sure drive is showing up

5. type mdadm --assemble --scan

you should see some messages saying something like /dev/md/101 has been started with 1 drive (out of 2). Have no idea why drive is seen as raid even if you don't use raid with your linkstation but it is split up into a whole bunch of partitions and the 6th one should be largest and have all your data.

6. Now open up file manager and the disk from your Linkstation should now show up and you can recover and copy all your data without having to pay a fortune!

 

had to write this up because you'll find all kinds of crazy advice about having to modify partitions,etc whereas you can see here it only takes one line and you aren't making changes to original drive in case something goes wrong!

 

 
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