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Dooomed, we're all doooomed
Jul. 18th, 2006 08:54 amWell, as advised by my friend and former IT guru at my old office, I let the surface scan run all night and all this morning through Tech Tools, to see what I could find on the failed hard drive. I finally gave up just now, because I can't stand listening to this noise anymore of the drive just chug... chug... chug... It's too annoying to have to work in here and listen to the clacking of the yellowjackets in the nest above me and this drive just groaning under the strain.
Weirdly, though, last night iTunes let me copy over some music to the iPod, so I spent the evening doing that, though I'm sure I missed a lot of stuff that I wasn't keeping track of. In my opinion, iTunes' greatest failing is that they don't let you sort by date added. That would make my life so much easier. ETA: Life can be easier! Thanks to the mysterious M for the advice on how to make iTunes sort by date. Many, many thanks!
Anyway, I keep all the music on the external drive, since the internal drive isn't that big, and I don't know if it was having the app itself on the iMac, but the music files on the external drive, that made it possible, but it's a relief to at least have saved a bit of my music to the iPod. What I'm having trouble finding the Apple support files, though, is how I would go about making those files accessible again when I get a new external drive. iTunes thinks they're there, of course, but can't find them if I turn off the external drive, so if it thinks they're there... do I just wipe out everything, and copy over the iPod contents... or what? I'm bewildered, and the support info doesn't seem to address such a weird situation.
I guess I have to lose the working files for the Bride of remix and start over again. And buy a new external drive (not feeling really good about the LaCie/Maxtor folks right now), which... not in the budget and kind of a hit I didn't need on top of the full copper repipe coming possibly next week, and the extermintor arriving tomorrow. But I have to do it, since I have a bunch of discs to make for the con. And say bye-bye to my working files for the BSG and LoM vids. I will try some of the suggestions people made, like freezing and dropping and stuff, but right now, I have to get a new drive and get cracking on some of these things. Playing with it will have to wait.
But I love the TT reports on the surface scan -- "If bad blocks are reported, the only cure is to reinitialize the drive with the option to zero all data. First back up any data since this will erase the drive." Yes, and if I could do this, I wouldn't be running this test for over 16 hours and getting nowhere.
In other words, I'm fracked, but I gotta get moving so no time to mourn the loss.
Weirdly, though, last night iTunes let me copy over some music to the iPod, so I spent the evening doing that, though I'm sure I missed a lot of stuff that I wasn't keeping track of. In my opinion, iTunes' greatest failing is that they don't let you sort by date added. That would make my life so much easier. ETA: Life can be easier! Thanks to the mysterious M for the advice on how to make iTunes sort by date. Many, many thanks!
Anyway, I keep all the music on the external drive, since the internal drive isn't that big, and I don't know if it was having the app itself on the iMac, but the music files on the external drive, that made it possible, but it's a relief to at least have saved a bit of my music to the iPod. What I'm having trouble finding the Apple support files, though, is how I would go about making those files accessible again when I get a new external drive. iTunes thinks they're there, of course, but can't find them if I turn off the external drive, so if it thinks they're there... do I just wipe out everything, and copy over the iPod contents... or what? I'm bewildered, and the support info doesn't seem to address such a weird situation.
I guess I have to lose the working files for the Bride of remix and start over again. And buy a new external drive (not feeling really good about the LaCie/Maxtor folks right now), which... not in the budget and kind of a hit I didn't need on top of the full copper repipe coming possibly next week, and the extermintor arriving tomorrow. But I have to do it, since I have a bunch of discs to make for the con. And say bye-bye to my working files for the BSG and LoM vids. I will try some of the suggestions people made, like freezing and dropping and stuff, but right now, I have to get a new drive and get cracking on some of these things. Playing with it will have to wait.
But I love the TT reports on the surface scan -- "If bad blocks are reported, the only cure is to reinitialize the drive with the option to zero all data. First back up any data since this will erase the drive." Yes, and if I could do this, I wouldn't be running this test for over 16 hours and getting nowhere.
In other words, I'm fracked, but I gotta get moving so no time to mourn the loss.
