Comments on: DeathDrive http://www.jeffdarlington.com/2007/08/29/deathdrive/ The personal blog of Jeffrey T. Darlington, creator of General Protection Fault Sat, 05 Dec 2009 02:07:38 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Jeff http://www.jeffdarlington.com/2007/08/29/deathdrive/comment-page-1/#comment-124 Jeff Fri, 07 Sep 2007 14:48:39 +0000 http://www.jeffdarlington.com/2007/08/29/deathdrive/#comment-124 Aaaand... it's back. Just got the LD back from Chris Short yesterday. The new screen is awesome; got an after-market glass digitizer that's smoother than... well, Ben's bottom. It writes <em>so</em> much better. I've even restored about 90% of my data, so I'm mostly back in business. Aaaand… it’s back. Just got the LD back from Chris Short yesterday. The new screen is awesome; got an after-market glass digitizer that’s smoother than… well, Ben’s bottom. It writes so much better. I’ve even restored about 90% of my data, so I’m mostly back in business.

]]> By: limax http://www.jeffdarlington.com/2007/08/29/deathdrive/comment-page-1/#comment-123 limax Thu, 30 Aug 2007 16:59:35 +0000 http://www.jeffdarlington.com/2007/08/29/deathdrive/#comment-123 Nah... the system file went missing or got corrupted. I'm going to search online to see if there's any way I can 'see' the old data on the hard drive, but I've not had a chance. The photos are the hardest part of what went missing... Nah… the system file went missing or got corrupted. I’m going to search online to see if there’s any way I can ’see’ the old data on the hard drive, but I’ve not had a chance. The photos are the hardest part of what went missing…

]]> By: Jeff http://www.jeffdarlington.com/2007/08/29/deathdrive/comment-page-1/#comment-122 Jeff Thu, 30 Aug 2007 00:26:54 +0000 http://www.jeffdarlington.com/2007/08/29/deathdrive/#comment-122 I was lucky enough that the LD was pretty much functional aside from the digitizer. Thus I could do a few little things using the hard buttons and 5-way navigator, and I was able to do a full backup sync before securely erasing all the data. So my data is completely safe (assuming Apollo the laptop's hard drive doesn't crash before it comes back). If your catastrophic failure was a hard drive crash, might I recommend <a href="http://www.grc.com/sr/spinrite.htm" rel="nofollow">SpinRite</a>? I've become a rather devoted follower of the <a href="http://www.twit.tv/sn" rel="nofollow">Security Now podcast at TWiT.tv</a> and bought a copy as a show of support (and I was getting tired of all the constant plugging for it). I haven't used it in disaster recovery (yet), but they have some <a href="http://www.grc.com/sr/testimonials.htm" rel="nofollow">very compelling user success stories</a>. I was lucky enough that the LD was pretty much functional aside from the digitizer. Thus I could do a few little things using the hard buttons and 5-way navigator, and I was able to do a full backup sync before securely erasing all the data. So my data is completely safe (assuming Apollo the laptop’s hard drive doesn’t crash before it comes back).

If your catastrophic failure was a hard drive crash, might I recommend SpinRite? I’ve become a rather devoted follower of the Security Now podcast at TWiT.tv and bought a copy as a show of support (and I was getting tired of all the constant plugging for it). I haven’t used it in disaster recovery (yet), but they have some very compelling user success stories.

]]> By: limax http://www.jeffdarlington.com/2007/08/29/deathdrive/comment-page-1/#comment-121 limax Wed, 29 Aug 2007 23:49:23 +0000 http://www.jeffdarlington.com/2007/08/29/deathdrive/#comment-121 Man... if my m130 went right now too, I'd be in a world of hurt. Our desktop just had a catastrophic failure yesterday and we lost everything (machine's less than a year old). And silly me, I did no backups. We lost some irreplacable things... but here's hoping we'll learn from our mistake. Man… if my m130 went right now too, I’d be in a world of hurt. Our desktop just had a catastrophic failure yesterday and we lost everything (machine’s less than a year old). And silly me, I did no backups. We lost some irreplacable things… but here’s hoping we’ll learn from our mistake.

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