Some of you may know I recently had two hard drives fail on me. Two completely unrelated coincidental failures of the two most important storage drives on my PC. One was full of 25000+ MP3s of hundreds of different artists that was very respectable standing next to Razi’s collection… and the other one full of my favorite TV shows LOST, NIP TUCK and 24. F@@kin blows.
The first failure came on Tuesday when I was in the middle of watching the Shield. The Sheild video stopped so I got up, minimized it, opened the hard drive it was sitting on and BLAM! Froze. Re-started to my bios picture for about 5 minutes before I shut my PC off and went to be. Woke up in the morning to find my PC boots, but boots very very slowly. Like 10 minutes slowly and when it finally opens, my hard drive is visible, but if I click on it I get the BSOD. F@@KED!
Two days later I am deciding to back up all my shat. So I highlight all my MP3 folders and copy them to another HD. What the fook could go wrong with this? BLAM BSOD! This time if I even try and boot windows with the hard drive plugged in, I instantly get the BSOD
So what to do?
KNOPPIX is the answer. A Linux based bootable OS from your CD/DVD drive and allows you to access corrupted windows drives and copy the info to other existing hard drives. This is the most brilliant invention ever conceived by man. I am so impressed with how reliant this software is, I may end up switching to Linux permanently.
The one problem you may encounter with KNOPPIX is the fact that you can only write to FAT32 drives. Which means, you need to format another hard drive in windows for FAT32, which means you can only format partitions in 30GB size drives. So that 150 GB NTSF drive you have, will be five 30 GB FAT32 drives. But hey, if it saves your data, you shouldn’t be complaining right? Well just wait until you see the 3MB/sec transfer rate you get. Then you’ll be crying a river like I am now.
The bottom line is KNOPPIX is probably the single best FREE solution for people who think all their data is completely lost, but really it just needs the touch of a non-sucky-OS to get it all back.
Any questions, you know where to find me.
-F@@kin Duke
The first failure came on Tuesday when I was in the middle of watching the Shield. The Sheild video stopped so I got up, minimized it, opened the hard drive it was sitting on and BLAM! Froze. Re-started to my bios picture for about 5 minutes before I shut my PC off and went to be. Woke up in the morning to find my PC boots, but boots very very slowly. Like 10 minutes slowly and when it finally opens, my hard drive is visible, but if I click on it I get the BSOD. F@@KED!
Two days later I am deciding to back up all my shat. So I highlight all my MP3 folders and copy them to another HD. What the fook could go wrong with this? BLAM BSOD! This time if I even try and boot windows with the hard drive plugged in, I instantly get the BSOD
So what to do?
KNOPPIX is the answer. A Linux based bootable OS from your CD/DVD drive and allows you to access corrupted windows drives and copy the info to other existing hard drives. This is the most brilliant invention ever conceived by man. I am so impressed with how reliant this software is, I may end up switching to Linux permanently.
The one problem you may encounter with KNOPPIX is the fact that you can only write to FAT32 drives. Which means, you need to format another hard drive in windows for FAT32, which means you can only format partitions in 30GB size drives. So that 150 GB NTSF drive you have, will be five 30 GB FAT32 drives. But hey, if it saves your data, you shouldn’t be complaining right? Well just wait until you see the 3MB/sec transfer rate you get. Then you’ll be crying a river like I am now.
The bottom line is KNOPPIX is probably the single best FREE solution for people who think all their data is completely lost, but really it just needs the touch of a non-sucky-OS to get it all back.
Any questions, you know where to find me.
-F@@kin Duke
