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RARgh!

Posted by Tarbolde on .
This post concerns data backup and continues from here, which was part of a sub-topic that began approximately here, in a thread that started with this post.

Many of the files that I needed to back up were split RARs and I wanted to join them before saving to DVD-R. With my HDDs nearly full there was no easy way to do that, so I finally took some advice and bought an external drive, a WD Elements 3TB USB 2.0, for $110.

I was unpacking RARS to the external drive when things took an alarming turn. The IDE channel that supports my 2 internal HDDs kept dropping from UDMA 5 down to PIO mode. With the drives as full and fragmented as they were, this was no surprise. Removing the IDE channel through the Device Manager and letting it re-detect would make things alright again for a while. But soon my PC began crashing frequently, and Windows would want to run chkdsk on a partition or two when it rebooted. Sometimes chkdsk recovered a few orphaned file fragments, other times it found no problems.

*CRASH*

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Another Fine Mess
Tarbolde -- 11/23/2013 3:11 pm UTC
Partition Politics
Tarbolde -- 12/11/2013 9:15 pm UTC
Evacuate The Bridge
Tarbolde -- 2/28/2014 9:49 pm UTC
Auxilliary Control
Tarbolde -- 3/22/2014 6:05 pm UTC
Non Sequitur
Tarbolde -- 5/23/2014 9:30 pm UTC
Deus Ex Machina
Tarbolde -- 7/16/2014 5:37 am UTC
Phonetasm
Tarbolde -- 9/12/2014 10:27 pm UTC
If Wishes Were Horses
Tarbolde -- 1/25/2015 6:01 am UTC
Like A Rock
Tarbolde -- 1/24/2016 6:02 pm UTC
Like A Cat In A Box
Tarbolde -- 4/26/2017 8:14 pm UTC
Re: Like A Rock
Tricob -- 1/24/2016 11:47 pm UTC
Re: Deus Ex Machina
Tricob -- 7/16/2014 9:25 pm UTC
Re: Deus Ex Machina
Tarbolde -- 7/18/2014 3:08 am UTC
Re: Non Sequitur
Tricob -- 5/24/2014 10:09 am UTC
Re: Non Sequitur
Tarbolde -- 5/25/2014 8:04 am UTC
Re: Non Sequitur
Tricob -- 5/25/2014 4:25 pm UTC
Re: Non Sequitur
Tarbolde -- 5/25/2014 7:29 pm UTC
Re: Non Sequitur
Tricob -- 5/26/2014 10:40 am UTC
Re: Auxilliary Control
Tricob -- 3/23/2014 12:42 am UTC
Re: Auxilliary Control
Tarbolde -- 3/25/2014 3:39 pm UTC
Re: Evacuate The Bridge
Tricob -- 3/1/2014 11:22 am UTC
Re: Evacuate The Bridge
Tarbolde -- 3/4/2014 6:40 pm UTC
Re: Evacuate The Bridge
Tricob -- 3/4/2014 7:17 pm UTC
Re: Partition Politics
Tricob -- 12/14/2013 10:42 am UTC
Muddy Waters
Tarbolde -- 12/16/2013 5:47 pm UTC
Re: Muddy Waters
Tricob -- 12/16/2013 10:17 pm UTC
Re: Muddy Waters
Tarbolde -- 12/17/2013 7:05 pm UTC
Re: Muddy Waters
Tricob -- 12/20/2013 6:28 pm UTC
Re: Muddy Waters
Tarbolde -- 12/22/2013 5:04 pm UTC
Re: Muddy Waters
Tricob -- 12/23/2013 3:29 pm UTC
Re: Muddy Waters
Tarbolde -- 12/24/2013 4:47 pm UTC
Uh, wait -
Tricob -- 12/23/2013 3:34 pm UTC
Re: Another Fine Mess
Tricob -- 11/23/2013 11:23 pm UTC
Re: Another Fine Mess
Tarbolde -- 11/25/2013 12:24 am UTC
Re: Another Fine Mess
Tricob -- 11/25/2013 8:34 pm UTC