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... due to serious computer issues. Signs point to the swap partition on my desktop being borked.
Will try to write tomorrow, but it's been a long day here.
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When they work too well, we take them for granted. But the first hiccup...
Ok thanks for the update
Good luck with your computer
That's a RIP... good luck with the computer, though. Here's to hoping you can fix it without having to swap the drive
Good luck with your computer.
That's unfortunate. Good luck!
What do you mean the swap partition is borked? You mean only the partition doesn't work, or you mean the entire drive doesn't work and you narrowed it down to the partition? Because as far as I can tell, swap isn't used for anything between full reboots, only for runtime, hibernation (not implemented in Windows 10 or Linux anymore) and sleep mode. It is safe to simply boot up a recovery disc like gparted live or the Windows installer, and just reformat/remake the swap partition, directly overwriting the old one.
Oh, dear; good luck.
No worries, this story is more than worth a little waiting. Good luck with your computer, hope it's not too serious of an issue.
Thank you for letting us know what's going on and that you're personally OK.
Here's hoping that you benefit from any extra rest that comes from this and that it's a minor and inexpensive issue to remedy.
Be well!
I'm just going to pretend this was a chapter, and that swap partition got screwed on the rower so they had to spend one day fixing it.
Yes, computer problems can be timesinks when your not prepared for them.
Considering problems with partitions, have a backup of all important data before doing anything else. That can't be repeated often enough.
4933222 4933299 More in-depth diagnosis revealed it wasn't the partition; it was the whole HD going bad. Atapi faults growing on an exponential curve, and two of the first three sectors in a disk scan coming back as bad. So I'm finishing up a full disk backup while it still runs at all, then shutting down the computer and taking it to someone who can clone the drive or do whatever else is required to keep certain apps (particularly the old, paid-for copy of Adobe Creative Suite 5.5) and to keep running on Windows 7.
4933343 BTW, the draft files for Maretian do not reside on that HD. They're on a flash drive that I take with me on my convention trips.
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You can use magic jellybean keyfinder to grab your win 7 key if you don't know it.
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Well, I do strongly recommend replacing it with an SSD, even if it's smaller. Used swap partitions on HDD drives hurt my soul.
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I'd love to exchange the 1tb hdd in my pokey laptop with a ssd someday. Takes a few minutes for it to go from a cold start to system idle (so much disk churning!). The gaming rig has a ssd (well, a main ssd, a storage hdd, and another ssd for huge games like FO4 and WoW) and takes under half a minute to get to idle and that's with a dozen rather fat apps taking their sweet time downloading this or checking that.
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Magical Jellybean Keyfinder recovers keys from a wide variety of software; it may also be able to recover Adobe Creative Suite's.
I feel your pain, Overstreet. My external 4TB HDD backup drive failed last weekend while I was using it to restore files and software on one of the very computers that it had been backed up to after a reformat. In other words, some of the stuff on it was temporarily not anywhere else.
Good luck with the file recovery.
How's it looking, Kris? I think everyone here feels your pain.
4933672 It's looking like I'll be without my desktop machine for a while, until I get a replacement HD with the old one cloned onto it. The HD is under warranty, but it looks to be replacement only, which isn't terribly helpful if I have to send back the bad HD before I can get its replacement, I need both in the same place at the same time.
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Cloning can be performed on any BSD or Unix-like operating system/live disc using just the DD command with some parameters. This however is not recommended for a disk with bad sectors because it clones the disk as-is without attempting to recover any corrupt data
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I would not bet on cloning to work. It might, it might not.
If you want to be able to get keys and the likes out of it, copy the windows registry files. A lot of those things are in there.
You could use your PC with a Ubuntu live USB drive. Not an ideal solution, but usable.
4933753 I manually transferred all the contents of the dying HD, directory by directory, to a backup drive using Windows Explorer, including the Windows directory. Is that enough?
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The registry files are in C:\Windows\System32\Config
So yes.
Most programs store their keys in these files.
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Actually, double check that to be sure. These are protected files and I wouldn't be that surprised if they got skipped.
4933866 Rgh. You're right, they got skipped. And I'm not powering that compy back up. I'll just tell the tech about it tomorrow.
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I fully support this plan. Booting from failing drives is a bad idea.
....can we has more CSP? The Maretian literally has a couple hundred chaps now and CSP....
Did they manage to clone the drive?
4936823 Yes. The computer boots, at least. Won't get it back until Monday, though, since I have to drive to Abilene today for my next convention.