[hblug] External Storage

[Brett Wilkins]

I've recently acquired a piece of software from a friend of mine called
Spinrite. What it does (essentially) is "revive" HDDs.
For example, at brebner print, where my friend works, they had a couple
of server drives fail (dunno if they were scsi...) and he offered to try
his program, and they accepted seeing as the drives were useless to the
any-which-way. After he was done, they were working perfectly fine. And
still are.
As said, I have since acquired this software from him.
Now it is a boot disk, and as such it is DOS based (FreeDOS! (we're
safe)). This should of course make sense as such a program would need
low-level access and the last thing you'd want is for the OS to attempt
to access a drive during recovery.

Perry, do you think this might help with your wife's PC's drive?
Or Rene, do YOU think this could help with Perry's wife's PC's drive?

Whatever to help,

Brett

On Tue, 2007-12-04 at 13:11 +1300, Perry Spiller wrote:
> ----------------Earlier, Chris commented--------------------
> > > Is that what you meant by 'server,' Chris? And/or similar
> > > to what you described, Ralph?
> > Any 'networked drive" is gonna need a computer to run it ( eg:
> > server )
> > I dont know of any remote drive cases that can act as a node on a
> > lan - or even if there is such a thing...
> > 
> > Just about any old box can be used as a server. And once it is setup
> > it can be run headless and kb/mouse-less via vnc from one of your
> > 'main' pc's
> > I have just such a beast sitting under my desk. It holds an
> > assortment of drives ( backups and storage ) and does nothing else.
> > It runs kubuntu and samba shares which are accessible from both
> > linux and win PC's.
> 
> OK - let me drop the word 'external' from this topic.
> (Sort-of, becasue a networked storage space on another
> PC/server is external, in a sense.)
> 
> What I'm seeking is:
> 1) more space on a crowded windoze machine HDDs
> 2) back-up for critical data, as well as storage for might-be-needed
> stuff
> 2a) the data in (2) above will come from a Linux and windoze PC
> 3) a fall-back machine if one of the normally-used PCs dies.
> 
> Some time back, Rene built me a box that's got Ubuntu on it
> and the plan is to use that as a VNC (Linux) machine, for me
> to run from my windoze PC.
> 
> Presently, according to Dr Rene, the HDD on my wife's Kununtu
> machine is in the early stages of senile decay and needs replacing.
> She's keen to get her PC back soon, from where it presently languishes
> at Rene's place.
> 
> Now, I'm trying to step back a bit from these loosely related things
> and ask myself  what a more coherent approach might be. Something
> that might be close to your under-desk-beast arrangement, which you
> refer to.
> 
> Something like . . . . (using our LAN)
> 
> a) Replace the HDD in my wife's machine, and add another, if that's
> possible;
> b) If it's possible, put a new, extra, big HDD in the spare ubuntu
> box;
> c) Partition that big HDD and back up all critical data to those
> partitions, from
> both the Linux and windoze PC, as well as park a lot of downloaded,
> might-be-needed stuff, off my windoze PC. In that scenario, at least
> my
> wife will have a back-up PC, if her's fails, for any reason.
> 
> For the time being, I miss out having a back-up PC, because I'm still
> using
> windoze on my PC. Although having lots of networked storage space
> might be a help to my inkling to re-install windoze on my PC, as it's
> become too slow, of late.
> 
> Perry
> 
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