On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 2:37 PM, David C. Rankin <drankinatty@...> 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. -- Kris "Piki" Ark Linux Webmaster Trinity Desktop Environment Packager