Date: 10/12/2003
| Yep, I've lost 70gb (30+40) worth of hard disk in the last month.
I think I've saved everything important off the failed disk.. but now my machine is down to 13gb and Windows 98 + Gentoo. Ironically it's the oldest (6yrs) drive thats still going. The other 2 drives were both less than 2 years old. However still out of warentee of course, and the IBM drive was already a replacement for a failed disk. Not that I'd put an IBM drive into my machine these days even if they paid me.
Yeash!
Although I had my first positive Linux experience in months when I managed to move all the files around to get Word working again from Linux, as Win98 just hung badly with the failing drive powered up. Konqueror of all things has a "skip all" option when copying huge directories of files and some files are not readable. Plus it seemed less inclined to get stuck on bad sectors.
I managed to get enough things working to see us through the week with some judicious deleting and moving of files. I think I've got less than 100mb free on each partition (Windows + Linux). Although no compiler... that didn't fit, and my mail is stuck on the Linux partition, but thats alright... I can just use this ;)
It feels really old skool to be micro-managing space like this again, I vaguely remember the bad old days of never enough disk space. Even after years of always having free GB's on every partition.
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