Saturday, December 02

Geek

The Delights Of Independent Power Control

While I was ferreting about inside my PC to replace the video card, I also pulled the old failed C drive and stuck it in one of my external drive cases.

As I thought, it's pretty much gone to the big rust farm in the sky. It comes up fine, but if you try to do anything serious with it like actually reading the data, it's not long before it stops responding and Windows freezes up.

But now, now I just reach over and turn it off, and Windows is like, oh, your USB device has gone away, and everything comes back to life.

So now I can recover critical information like my AMV.org password...

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