Comments on: Blinking Dash Update And The Wisdom of Yahoo Answers http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2007/12/27/blinking-dash-update-and-the-wisdom-of-yahoo-answers/ I will not fix your computer. Tue, 04 Aug 2020 22:34:33 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.7.26 By: ths http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2007/12/27/blinking-dash-update-and-the-wisdom-of-yahoo-answers/#comment-7532 Sat, 29 Dec 2007 16:57:35 +0000 http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2007/12/27/blinking-dash-update-and-the-wisdom-of-yahoo-answers/#comment-7532

I like the windows debug mode very much. it displays each filename that it tries to load and execute, at least as long as text mode is active. when it switches to graphics nothing more is shown. when the boot process hangs usually the last filename shown is the one with problems.
this is the same nice thing as was alt-f2 in OS/2 boot process (sigh).

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]]> By: Luke Maciak http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2007/12/27/blinking-dash-update-and-the-wisdom-of-yahoo-answers/#comment-7515 Fri, 28 Dec 2007 19:45:33 +0000 http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2007/12/27/blinking-dash-update-and-the-wisdom-of-yahoo-answers/#comment-7515

I actually tried it – the drive died the day after Christmas so I pretty much got a full day out of that mouse. It’s a good mouse, but bit on the bulky side. I will probably write a full review in a few days. :)

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]]> By: Ben http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2007/12/27/blinking-dash-update-and-the-wisdom-of-yahoo-answers/#comment-7514 Fri, 28 Dec 2007 19:25:03 +0000 http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2007/12/27/blinking-dash-update-and-the-wisdom-of-yahoo-answers/#comment-7514

Hey! I got the Sidewinder mouse for Xmas too. Still playing with it a bit, but I’m happy so far. Hope you get to try it soon.

I once had a crazy hard drive like that. It turned out that the boot sectors were bad, but the rest of the drive was OK. Nothing to do but junk the drive.
Good luck.

-Ben

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]]> By: Luke Maciak http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2007/12/27/blinking-dash-update-and-the-wisdom-of-yahoo-answers/#comment-7503 Fri, 28 Dec 2007 02:51:41 +0000 http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2007/12/27/blinking-dash-update-and-the-wisdom-of-yahoo-answers/#comment-7503

I was actually able to copy my whole user profile to my external USB drive under Knoppix. I also scooped up random save game files from Program Files and etc. So all my configuration settings (including Firefox profile) and the shit I had in My Documents (bunch of pictures, some movies and torrents) got saved.

My Floppy haven’t worked for like 3 years now. :P I booted the Ultimate Boot CD but FDISK version that shipped with FreeDos said that C: is the active partition.

Sigh… I’m sick of this. I’m going to reformat, and see if that helps.

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]]> By: Dan http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2007/12/27/blinking-dash-update-and-the-wisdom-of-yahoo-answers/#comment-7502 Fri, 28 Dec 2007 02:02:35 +0000 http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2007/12/27/blinking-dash-update-and-the-wisdom-of-yahoo-answers/#comment-7502

Well I assume you tried this but . . . pop in a dos boot disk and run fdisk and set the drive bootable. Sometimes this gets “unset” when problems occur. Even if you wiped the MBR using /mbr this step may need to be redone.

I did not see that mentioned yet but beyond that I also found that the ICEPACK boot manager tends to save my ass every time no matter how f’d a drive is and no matter what OS were on there. It tends to work some voodoo and always gets me booting into every OS on any given drive.

If you still need to get data off the drive I recommend doing that first and via a USB/IEEE1394 to IDE/SATA adapter. That way you can just make the drive a secondary external USB device and take whatever data you need off of there.

Good luck dude.

//Dan

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