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[georgie]

I can help, I can heeelp! I got this!

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[Gwadien]

2bn in savings from this cut alone?

Franky, this strikes a personal vein with me, and not for the right reasons.

Just to weigh up what I'm about to say, I have a close friend with a severe physical disability, so obviously in that case it's clear that they should have stuff like this for them.

However.

I also have relatives of a family friend who got with this bloke, told him to stop working because its easier to live on benefits, they got fat, they used mobility scooters when they didn't need to, and the woman got to a stage where she nearly had her legs amputated.

They get a car from the Government.

Fine, perhaps in some situations you can be a bit more sympathetic but because I personally know the situation it's infuriating.

The Government doesn't help theirselves though, they get a new car every year or two years, usually a Vauxhall zafira and I can pretty much guarantee its leased and I doubt they have the best contract rates going.

So yeah.

Stop with the emotional blackmail, get humans to suss each individual case, stop being so wasteful and address the cultural issue at the heart of this.

I'm positive that the Government isn't picking on disabled people, because if this was true, they would be committing political suicide, I'm sure the cuts are aimed at cases which I described, but they can't say that either cos its prejudice.

 

[fettoken]

I think my WD external usb drive is knackered. Its got power, windows recognises the device as hardware, but I can't access any of the files as its not showing up in file explorer

E:\ is not accessible
The request could not be performed because of an I/O device error

How do I recover my data?

How long have you had it for? In my experience, those external drives dies like flies. Specialists might get the data back if it's something of value to you.

 

[old.Osy]

I think my WD external usb drive is knackered. Its got power, windows recognises the device as hardware, but I can't access any of the files as its not showing up in file explorer

E:\ is not accessible
The request could not be performed because of an I/O device error

How do I recover my data?

My ST2000DM001 (2.5 years old, sob) started acting up couple days ago. It's my internal 2TB drive used for torrenting and some games, plus Plex repository ofc. I was trying to update Elite, and the drive just disappeared - not visible in Device Management. Reboot, nothing, not even visible in BIOS.

Get in, switch motherboard SATA port (was thinking dark thoughts at this point), and lo and behold it became visible in BIOS. Boot up, drive's there, partition visible and accesible under Windows. Try the same Elite update again, and it does the same Houdini thing on me.

By this point I had realized the drive is knackered, so a full barrage of tests (SeaTools Advanced Long Test, which failed, indicating serious errors).

chkdsk /r ran two times, 32KB of bad sectors identified - it's working now, but I don't expect it to last long now, so i've moved off everything "important" off it, and ordered this:

HGST 4TB Deskstar NAS HDD Review | StorageReview.com - Storage Reviews

HGST drives come highly praised in terms of durability, so I thought a drive designated as NAS drive should take even more torrenting and Plex metadating than its predecessor did. It's arriving Monday.

Edit: I have this as external backup drive (The 1TB variant), it came with Acronis based backup software (think cloning), going 5 years strong now:
http://www.seagate.com/files/docs/pdf/datasheet/disc/ds_blackarmor_ws_110.pdf

 

[Lamp]

Will try the chkdsk at the weekend
Gracias

 

[Lamp]

How long have you had it for? In my experience, those external drives dies like flies. Specialists might get the data back if it's something of value to you.

About 4 yrs. Working fine until yesterday. 1TB of music films tv shows and other stuff.

 

[Lamp]

I've managed to access my drive and am frantically copying to my laptop. Might have to take the day off work

Anyone recommend something i can buy today? Have to be external usb until a better solution presents

 

[Deebs]

I've managed to access my drive and am frantically copying to my laptop. Might have to take the day off work

Anyone recommend something i can buy today? Have to be external usb until a better solution presents

I have a few WD drives which are years old and still going strong, recently purchased some of the Samsung 1TB USB drives for work and have been hammering them constantly without any issue.

 

[Lamp]

@Deebs, your work ones are they HDD or SSD?

 

[caLLous]

I have a few WD drives which are years old and still going strong, recently purchased some of the Samsung 1TB USB drives for work and have been hammering them constantly without any issue.

I have a 1.5 TB My Book that has to be 6 or 7 years old and it's still 100% ok. I also have 2x 2 TB My Books, a 3 TB and a 4 TB and 3x WD Passport (2.5") drives (80 GB, 320 GB and 1 TB) and they are all ok. I have retired most of them from active duty since getting into ZFS but they all hold backups.

 

[caLLous]

@Lamp, is it a 3.5" drive (which needs its own power) or a 2.5" drive (all but the biggest ones take power over USB)? As a last resort (you're outside the warranty period anyway) you could open up the enclosure and then take the disk itself out. Buy something like this and try plugging the drive into a USB port. There's a chance that it's just the controller in the external enclosure that's screwed, not the disk itself.

 

[Deebs]

@Deebs, your work ones are they HDD or SSD?

HDD

 

[Hawkwind]

Using the below formula in the new column referencing your origional dataset...

=IF(AND(F15>=6,F15<=9),F15,0)

You create a second data set that shows "0" for any value that does not match your critera, and its own value for whan it does.
(in my example... column f contains the origional data set, and 6 and 9 are my upper and lower limits.. the highlighted values will be different based on your sheet and criteria)

You then just "max" on your new column of data

As I had some 0 events that I needed to capture I went with the following:
=IF(AND($I2 >TIME(1,30,0),$I2<=TIME(3,0,0)),$O2,"") in the col fields. So it did not fill with zeroes unless there was a zero there.
then did Max, Average and Count { =COUNTIF(Q2:Q1223, "<>" & "*") } column calculations

Thanks for the assist, made me at least stop trying to do it a way that was not going to work

 

[old.user4556]

So i've deactivated my Facebook account.

Enough being blasted with irrelevant likes and comments of friends, which I had opted not to see long time ago. My feed was a constant junk fest, browsing it was such a hassle. No more.

I've deactivated Facebook on and off over the years, but eventually I missed some stuff that was actually useful - discussing camera things in groups and in comments sections of PetaPixel, sharing ideas and learning in the astronomy and science groups etc. Everything else my "friends" put on was general garbage, so I pretty much unfollowed everyone I know and Facebook is much more tolerable. I use it for an applied purpose now, not for staying in touch with friends - that's what WhatsApp (ironically, owned by Facebook) groups and the pub are for.

 

[Edmond]

You can ignore people rather than unfriending them, I have a mate who keeps posting Britain First and the other day actually shared a post from Nick Griffin!! (no its not Job)

So I have ignored him rather than unfriending him, as I do still need contact with him

 

[old.user4556]

As I said above, "unfollow" .

 

[Raven]

I only use it for useful groups too.

Completely uninterested in pictures of babies, food or inspirational bollocks from pseudo feminazies.

 

[CorNokZ]

I use my Facebook mainly to post pictures of my son, the food I eat (followed by at least seven hashtags explaining exactly what is pictured and another four or five completely random ones with no relation to the food or picture) and pictures with inspirational quotes a famous person might have said once. When not posting pictures I usually make status updates about how great my life currently is or mention all of my friends' names in a video of something which is captioned with a click bait title but is usually pretty dull.

I've unfollowed most my friends as well seeing as they usually post utter shite, which adds no value to my Facebook feed

 

[Yoni]

I have less friends on FB than I had originally and only have close friends and family that I follow...

I missed it when I deactivated it as it keeps me updated on family issues the lives of close friends who all live so far from me...

I don't normally get involved in political discussions on there and I enjoy day to day posts from the lives of my friends...

I do however ban stupid sites so if any of them post looney left or radical right shit I don't actually see it

 

[Yoni]

Oh and Yay 5 days until im on Fuerteventura.... Adults only so no screaming brats... No laptop so urgent work stuff only.... and a jacuzzi on my terrace to lay in with the odd cocktail or glass of bubbly....HUZZAH

 

[old.user4556]

Sounds ace Yoni!

 

[Gwadien]

Oh and Yay 5 days until im on Fuerteventura.... Adults only so no screaming brats... No laptop so urgent work stuff only.... and a jacuzzi on my terrace to lay in with the odd cocktail or glass of bubbly....HUZZAH

I have some friends that live in Fuerteventura working as model photographers, living the absolute dream, it looks stunning.

Have fun!

 

[DaGaffer]

I think my WD external usb drive is knackered. Its got power, windows recognises the device as hardware, but I can't access any of the files as its not showing up in file explorer

E:\ is not accessible
The request could not be performed because of an I/O device error

How do I recover my data?

I have one of these:
Anker | Uspeed USB 3.0 2.5inch or 3.5inch SATA Hard Drive Docking Station

It has actually worked and I've recovered broken drives. It takes forever though.

 

[caLLous]

I have one of these:
Anker | Uspeed USB 3.0 2.5inch or 3.5inch SATA Hard Drive Docking Station

It has actually worked and I've recovered broken drives. It takes forever though.

Rubbish. It says "lightning speed" in the description...

And @Lamp: what @DaGaffer linked to is basically the posh version of what I linked to. You just drop the drive into it rather than faffing around plugging in connectors and things - much less hassle.

 

[Tom]

You can ignore people rather than unfriending them, I have a mate who keeps posting Britain First and the other actually shared a post from Nick Griffin!! (no its not Job)

So I have ignored him rather than unfriending him, as I do still need contact with him

You beat me to my joke.

 

[old.Osy]

New drive arrived, seems quite fast. It'a a 4TB Hitachi DeskStar NAS drive, 7200 rpm, 64mb cache.

Model is HDN724040ALE640, if anyone wants to know.

 

[old.user4556]

Did you know the DeLorean is going back into production?

DeLorean Motor Company

 

[Raven]

Just a warning to Iphone users.

iPhones 'disabled' if Apple detects third-party repairs - BBC News

Apple have confirmed you do not own your phone.

 

[Job]

Rule 1 NEVER update your phone if it's working OK, every update I have ever done has fucked up something.
From bricking the wifi module to loosing bluetooth, having battery life halved and generally fucking up the UI and adding a shed load of shit I don't want.

 

[Raven]

user error...