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So I had a weird display issue crop up this morning. When I bring up Newspapers.com and try to view an article, the screen goes black for a couple seconds, then comes back to a mostly white screen with a warning message about the display in the lower right corner for a couple seconds, then back to b...

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Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home.

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Have you had any problems buying extra Ego batteries? None of the big box stores like Lowe’s and even Ace Hardware can't get them in my area. Same thing goes for mom-and-pop hardware shops. I had to buy it off Amazon. yes. I did manage to find some from time to time at local hardware stores, but wh...

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Cool. Thanks.

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There's always something else, y'know! OK, so I pulled the "bad" 1.5 TB drive and swapped in the new 4 TB drive that I robocopied the data to. Good so far. So i went into disk management to reassign the drive letter (that went fine) but the new drive is now listed as "Disk 2". Is...

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Could be. Wouldn't be the first time I got started on some, came back much later, and had little or no memory of what I had wanted to do.

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Well this is interesting. I installed WinMerge to do some folder comparisons between the old and the new drives after the robocopy. When I put the two Win7 Stuff folders in on my two existing 1.5 TB drives and compare them, it does display that it is scrolling through a list of files, all of them in...

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Interesting. Haven't drilled into this before. However, it seems I have read and execute permissions on the "Win7 Stuff" folder, but still can't see what's in the folder. When I tried to add a permission for that I got this - [oh buggers -can't remember how to post an image] one window sai...

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The mystery folder I have that won't show the file contents is called "Win7 Stuff". I may have created this folder - but maybe not.

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Data copy project completed. I put the new 4TB drive in an enclosure, formatted it, then did a robocopy of the potentially failing 1.5 TB internal drive to the new 4TB drive. Took a while but went mostly smoothly - got hung up towards (what I presume was) the end of the robocopy with an Error 5; \Sy...

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Bonus question from me. My original ssd for this system was 128GB (Samsung MZ-7PC128D). Would I get much of a boost out of imaging the ssd c drive and replacing it with say a 1TB Samsung 870 EVO Series (only about $100)? Or should I just wait since I really need to do a complete new build with Win 1...

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Thanks. So robocopy is this thing, huh? https://adamtheautomator.com/robocopy/ I'm no expert, but not a total noob either, and I don't remember anything about robocopy. Sounds like a better approach. The two current 1.5 TB drives pretty much have the same data on them - I use them as duplicate backu...

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My current system, which I'll be replacing probably in the next year or so, has an SSD as the C drive and two other conventional hard drives. I'm getting some inklings that one of the data drive hard disks is reaching the end of its lifespan (CrystalDiskInfo). So I bought a (larger capacity) replace...

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Quite interesting. i hope i live to see the results some of it. Clock is tickin' people!

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I find they engage my mind if the picture is interesting. I let my younger relatives help with the harder puzzles as their interest permits - I like them as they require patience and delayed gratification, and teach the younger folks some persistence, a virtue for their own lives.

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Puzzles. You know, the kind that come in a box and the finished item is a purty picture.

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yeah, and now, rust never sleeps

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See, that's what I mean. Haven't been here in a fair chunk of time, and I come back, and it's like nothing has changed.

Feels like home.

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Happy New Year y'all.

Thanks to Krom et. al. for keepin' this place up. Have enjoyed my times here.

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Yeah, I'm in the market for a snowblower; looking to end of season sales. The drifts we got with one of the February storms were a lot of work with a shovel. I ain't gettin' any younger.
I wanna be prepared for next year.

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Neptin wrote: ↑Thu Feb 28, 2019 5:03 am What do I get?

Here ya go >> . <<

Don't spend it all in one place.

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Impressive and moving story there Cuda.

Yeah, those little grand-relatives are something to live for, ain't they. Cheers man.

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I just sent out for the Ancestry version a few days ago. Had one of the National Geographic Genographic Project kits done on me years and years ago, but that's when this stuff was in it's infancy. I'll be interested to see how the results compare to my paper and interwebs research, which is fairly e...

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I was walking out of one of the process wings at work the day before yesterday. After regular hours so the place was pretty empty. Almost walked straight into a decent sized spider that working it's way down a length of silk from the ceiling about 30 feet overhead. Right about at eye level. Body was...

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My dad bought a "smart" light control switch that used the cloud so you could use your cell phone or our amazon echos to turn it on or off. It only worked about half the time, congested the wifi, and ate up power because it had to keep its wifi going. Also we needed to borrow someone else...

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Well the hard part is done - getting one end of the ethernet patch cable down the wall from the attic to where the existing wall plate was. Turns out the cable line does come horizontally through a stud (at least one), so had to drill through a chunk of wood in the attic above where the wall plate w...

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I was wondering about the powerline thing, but was concerned with throughput compared to plain ethernet. Looks simple, but I've never used it before. I have been considering the long ethernet cable thing; from the attic I could run the line into a small hole in the wall in the bedroom's closet and j...

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Hey folks. I've got another conundrum that I'd like to run past the resident brains here. I'm trying to help set up a network in a house. One bedroom on 2nd floor is where the Comcast m/n TC8503C gateway is located; it has one computer plugged into one of the 4 ethernet jacks on the back. Now I need...

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Indeed. Rest in peace. 'Twas a good long life.

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Well, I had my doubts, since previously I was unable to boot from and rescue cd or dvd. However, I did boot from the new windows 8.1 disk i bought. Windows Setup started. This is an acer box with 5 partitions on the hard drive: Recovery, System, MSR (Reserved), Primary and Recovery. Should I delete ...

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I'll celebrate again on 3-14-16, because rounding to four decimals. And I like pie.

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Bummer for me. Can't get diskpart to run from a command prompt. I get a UAC popup ask me if I want to let the program make changes to the computer; I say yes and then nothing happens; I just get the cmd window back. I'm really beginning to hate this piece of malware. edit - doesn't matter if I turn ...

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Sorry for the delay; just getting back to this. Was out of commission with a sinus cold thing the week before (wiped me out for the whole damn week) and spent all of last week getting caught up with work and home stuff. I see that diskpart has a bunch of options associated with it. Am I basically ju...

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Crazy weekend. In the Network and Sharing Center, the top item says "The service to detect this status is disabled". So I clink on the more information link under that and I get a button saying do you want to turn on the Network List Service? and when I click to turn it on I get a box sayi...

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Hmm. All sound like good suggestions. I'll check them out over the next day or two. Thanks.

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It's Comcast. The wireless still works fine. I have a backup laptop running through that.

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Hey there Krom. What would you recommend to use for scanning the drive? Should I be concerned that malware on the bad drive will try to write something over to the scanning computer?

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Maybe the knowledgeable folks here can give me some ideas, cause I'm fresh out. As the family IT guy (yeah, yeah, I know; but my rates ARE cheap), I got called in to help with an apparent malware problem. Some clown was trying to con them into paying $175 to "fix their computer". [yes, I h...

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Heh! Merry Christmas to all u krazy kidz!

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Excellent snoopy. Well done!

Now find (or keep) a good gig, invest well, and in 30 years enjoy that retirement.

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