Retrieved data, rah!

[ciphergoth]

Some time ago I was very upset to find that the hard drive on my Archos Recorder MP3 player had died. Not only did it put the MP3 player out of action, not only did it mean that my many hours of ripping albums and transferring them to the Archos had been wasted, but I had used it to store some photographs taken in Italy. Now they, too, were lost.

Over the last couple of days, I've taken the player apart, taken out the hard drive (which is a standard laptop-style hard drive), plugged it into a PC I set up especially for the purpose using an adapter bought at Maplin, and successfully mounted the filesystem. I've already copied across and looked at the lovely photos from Italy, and now I'm slowly copying all 6GB of music onto my laptop across our 10Mbit network. Update: 51% complete...

It seems I haven't lost any data! Rah, rah and thrice rah!

Comments

[ex-suum-cuiq980.livejournal.com]

With our latest computer problems, my dad has lost all the photos he had saved on the computer :(

[imagesandwords.livejournal.com]

Cool...

I've got my msc deadline tomorrow and yesterday my pc decided it needed windows reinstalled....

Grrrr.

Once this peice of work is finally out the way I think my system may well be returning to linux and not just dualboot.

[valkyriekaren.livejournal.com]

so, those swimsuit shots, then...?

[ciphergoth.livejournal.com]

sent! hope they reached you OK! Paul xxx

[valkyriekaren.livejournal.com]

thanks!

Well, at least I can see how much weight I've lost since then - ugh!

[ciphergoth.livejournal.com]

see, I look at those photos and go phwoooar, but you are still gorgeous at the weight you are now so I shan't complain!

[lovingboth]

Does that suggest the problem with it is not the drive?

[ciphergoth.livejournal.com]

Well, fdisk won't talk to it, which suggests it is the drive that's at fault. Plus the drive is practically the only moving part...

10Mb network...

[(Anonymous)]

10 !! ?

:)

check dis...

http://www.insight.com/uk/apps/productpresentation/index.php?product_id=LNKNA01C1J

or, if you want the above with added joy of 54g wireless...

http://www.insight.com/uk/apps/productpresentation/index.php?product_id=LNKNA03D8S

just got one of these and it's l-o-v-e-l-y. easy to set up, some decent security features, looks like evil edna...

it also explains gingiber's first post from the garden the other day :)

later

anonymouseth
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Re: 10Mb network...

[(Anonymous)]

actually, ebuyer have it cheaper...

http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/products/index.html?action=c2hvd19wcm9kdWN0X292ZXJ2aWV3&product_uid=37451

good service, too. when i ordered the wireless stuff it arrived at 10am next day, even though i ordered at about 5pm.

later

anonymouseth
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