Today has not started well.
I got to work only to find that my PC had died again with the usual Dell thermal cutout problem. Fair enough, it’s happened before, I’ll just grab a spare machine and transplant my drives and memory across. I get another machine, pop everything in, and it won’t boot, mainly because it won’t detect the primary HD. So I grab another spare machine, and that one does the same. It turns out that the primary drive has failed as well.
I end up getting a brand new machine, and start reinstalling all my apps, the only problem is that I’ve lost my email archive, and the backup of my work is a few weeks out of date. After much faffing I decide to try rebuilding the dead drive with the electronics from a working one, and much to my surprise it works perfectly. I’m now trying to find space to dump the contents of the old drive so I can sort through it all. At least I’ve got my Firefox bookmarks back though :)
Geek :)
Woop! My computer’s power adaptor’s flaking out on me now, well i might have fixed it after I twisted the wire and a bright light lit up inside the power cable.. so I replaced that before it causes and inferno (not a disco one)
I’ve got meself a new laptop :) Now just got to work out the best way to copy 40gb of data from one to the other… hmmmmmm
Crossover Cable.
would be an excellent idea if i had one :)
Bluetooth ;-p
Luddites.
Use wireless, that’s what it’s there for.
I prefer wires, I don’t want my data getting sucked under the fridge or blown into the garden.. don’t you know anything about data security, rich, sheeesh! ;)
Print it all out and copy it back by hand. Much safer. And you can burn all the paper afterwards so no-one can look at it.