[mdlug] Lemonade on laptop erases hard drive?

[Ingles, Raymond]

First off, apropos to this thread, there's a program called "ntfsfix"
for Linux that has restored access to a corrupted NTFS partition for me
before. Basically, it can get the filesystem repaired to the point where
it *can* run chkdsk.

> From: Garry Stahl

> A tool that is well worth having is an everything drive adapter for
USB
> SATA IDE and narrow IDE.  It turns anything into an external drive.
> they can be had for 10 bucks and up, and needs to be in your toolbox,
> they are just that handy.

 I'm very irritated this morning. I've been planning on installing Linux
on my PS3, but I needed to back it up first. The drive that I was using
for backups is a 30GB IDE laptop drive, used through a USB-to-SATA/IDE
cable. I tried to hook it up over a month ago and... no dice, on any
computer.

 I figured that the drive had perished. Someone at work has been
promising to loan me a drive, but I finally gave up on them and got a
different drive on loan from my nephew. Hooked it up last night, and...
no dice. Nor with any of the other drives I have.

 It looks like the *adapter* died, not the drive. Hopefully I can borrow
one of those from my nephew tonight, and I'll get a new adapter for
Father's Day. But that adapter got light usage and no obvious abuse,
it's irritating that it would die like that. :-/

 Sincerely,

 Ray Ingles                                     (313) 227-2317

  "If your faith is disturbed by my doubt, perhaps your faith
         wasn't all that strong to begin with." - Me
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