ARAX Disk Doctor is going to take almost 60 hours to scan my 300GB HDD.  The good news: It says it already found 1 deleted partition!  Unfortunately, it thinks it found an 80GB partition.  I had the whole HDD in a single partition before.  But, I probably only had ~80GB of data on there.  So [...]

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I’ve installed demos of several different disc recovery applications trying to recover my lost data. So far only one, Arax Disk Doctor, has found a deleted partition. It’s still going through its deep scanning, but I have some hope now.

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How hard is it to make a triple-grande-soy-white-mocha-no-whip?  I understand that it’s a foofie drink, but it’s what I like to order.  Most Starbucks get it right.  Unfortunately, the Starbucks on Miramar Road can’t seem to get it right.
I used to (read: last day is today) drive through the Miramar Starbucks on my way to [...]

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…even Windows XP!  I’m installing Windows XP Home in a VM on Ubuntu 6.10 (Edgy).  Instead of taking hours to install (OK, at least half an hour in the past) the whole installation was done in less than 10 minutes.  Pretty cool!
I’m still bummed out about my lost data, but I’m coming to terms with [...]

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Well, I’ve got Ubuntu running, seems to be (finally) working.  I had to install twice, though, because the first time my video card got all wacky.
I think I’ve narrowed my lost data to my homemade videos and pr0n.  I hope that’s it.
Wow whatta day so far.

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I learned that I also can not use the AHCI mode for my SATA drives, I had to drop back to IDE. At least Ubuntu is installed now. I’m downloading and installing all the updates now.
I’ve completely lost sight of what I’m trying to accomplish. I’ve lost so much so quickly.

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After doing lots of Google searches, checking out the Ubuntu Forums, and plenty of other research, I’ve come to the conclusion that I can’t use my hardware to create a RAID1 array.  I have the Intel P965 chipset and JMicron controller.  Basically, from what I’ve been able to find, this is completely upsupported by all [...]

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I just realized all the movies I had created are now gone. I don’t think I ever copied them anywhere. And, of course, I removed all old backups of my drive, since I had geniusly backed up to my now useless Firewire drive.

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Wow. I just f*cked myself.
I made sure all my stuff on my HDD was backed up to my external Firewire drive, including the Windows XP (32-bit) VM that I had moved all my data to.
I added my second 300GB HDD to my PC and configured a RAID 1 (Mirroring) array.
I then started the Ubuntu [...]

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For some reason I’ve been itching to get rid of Windows and start using Linux. There are a multitude of reasons why this is important to me, here are a few highlights:

Why I gotta ditch Windows:

The only reason I’ve been able to keep up with Windows is MSDN. I haven’t bought a Windows [...]

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