Posts by LtStinger

Try running Windows in safe mode and see if you have the same speed problems.

Fun example of a corrupted jpg lmao Would it be dangerous to attempt to defragment this drive? Or could the result turn out lucky?

Well the whole point of me doing it is so it doesn't cost money. This is one of the guys I work with at the firehouse, we're definitely not paid enough to spend money on data recovery, and I'm the most technical savvy friend he's got. ...

So shrink won't work because it's telling me that it's corrupted. Another way would be to get a live Cloning software that automatically skips free space. Does clonezilla do this? If not, what software to use to clone just the data...

Okay, thanks. I'll just shrink 800GB off of it and should be fine. Hoping for the best, expecting less. Anyone have any input on system freezing? Like when I know a file is corrupt and try to open it, it will open a picture that is...

Oh okay, so I can't shrink past losing files? I thought I heard that it would move some of them into the new partition, so if I had my 44GB of data and tried to shrink to 20GB, I would have 20GB of files on one partition and 24GB on...

Drive is a 1TB caviar green from a gateway computer that took a dive from the top of a desk while running. This drive is shot to an extreme degree. I'm trying to rescue as many pictures as I can, as the owner's family photos were not...

Success! The clean all function followed by a quick format must have done the trick. Was unable to find a hot swap function in my motherboard, might not have it. But I'm now able to run the drive with the SATA cord, giving me the...

Almost 4 hours later, the clear all finished lol now it's so late I'm going to bed. Gotta love the slow and steady progress.

Interesting. Is there a way to easily tell if a keyboard has these cherry switches without taking it apart? (Meaning if looking at a used one in a yard sale or goodwill) OT, I couldn't find any other keyboard either to meet that...