Success
So friday I took the exact duplicate hard drive, and removed its logic board. Put it on the drive that I was trying to “save” and plugged it in to see if I made any progress. It spun up and did not have the seek errors that I was getting with the other “wrong” board. So That was a good start. From there it was time to see if I could get any of the info off of the drive. I pulled out my favorite computer “Swiss Army Knife” CD and booted into it on a old test machine. It could now read the drive was there and the correct size. I was happy, but the problem was still not solved. Some where in this process the MBR was corrupted. So I corrected it and restarted booted into mini windows xp and the drive could be read. From there I was pretty quick to take what I thought was most important off and get it on a usb drive. I shut down the Test machine and connected the drive with an external 3.5″ IDE to usb adaptor and my frankenstein power supply. Plugged it into my main work machine and pulled the files off for a second back up. Once I was satisfied that my results were going to hold up for a bit, I threw the drive into an enclosure and brought it to the lady to recover her files. As far as hard drive diagnostics that is probably the most I have ever done to get something working. I am still a true believer to back stuff up frequently. This would not and could not be a day to day occurrence for me due to the time it took to track down the parts, and get every thing sorted but on an individual bases it was acceptable. Saturday Bryan, Ryan, Molly and myself went for a short 15 miler. I was planning on taking out the trek I had been working on for kelly but I was not confident in the front derailleurs alignment for a trip that far out of town. Also I just wanted to ride and get some miles, even if not many, under my belt. It was a pretty day, good ride and I had a lot of fun. I took the LeMond which I still absolutely love to ride. There is a squeak from the bottom bracket/crank area. I bought the tool to fix the noise. It should be in here next week. Other then that I have not done a thing to the bike but put a computer, bottle cages, and my pedals on. It more then 1000 miles on it and has been trouble free. I do think I need to do a pretty good drive train cleaning, and spruce up the rest of the bike. I also want to get the clear frame protectors for the frame where the cables rub. Saturday Night Michelle and I met with Bryan, Jim, and Emily at Little Dooies for a crawfish boil. Since I don’t do crawfish I got a half rack of ribs. They had a good deal on cheap beer so we hung out there for quite a while, and ate some food enjoyed the weather and each others company. From there we went back to the apartments for a bit to wait for Stephanie to get in from work. We then went up to Sushi on main where I just got some water and some fried rice. Michelle got one small roll and a margarita. Once we were done there we all decided to go to the upstairs of State Theater. We had a good time there talking and having some drinks and just relaxing. After a bit Josh and his group of friends came up there to hang out. Once they closed down we came back and hung out at the apartment and then called it a night. Michelle and I had a really good time, but we definitely know we can’t do that to often so we made the most of it and enjoyed it. Today I have been cleaning all day. Completely re did my room. I moved the server combo to my closet on some wood. Wired up the Access point in there too routed the wires all nicely and clean. Hung up a lot of clothes and moved the “Man Chest” to another wall and moved the bed. Ryan is going to give me a two bike stand to hand some bikes in the room to create some more room and take up less floor space. I drove Michelle to work today so I will need to pick her up in about an hour(midnight).
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