About a month ago I put my laptop down on my wallet which has quite a strong magnet in it to hold the notes in the bill fold. The hard drive was buggered. That happened in the Bahamas, so I waited until I got home. It has taken a lot of testing, but it ended up looking like it’s just the hard drive broken (quite badly, 588 sectors or something so far are bad). Before repairing my Laptop, using an old one I decided to sort out my backup system, make sure everything is there, and increase the amount of space I have in my Linksys NAS200, I was only storing 500gb, not that much really.
After trying to work out the best way to do it, and 3 hours on the phone to Linksys I found out this was going to take a while, like 10 days as the LAN speeds of the NAS200 seem to top out around 500 to 600kbps but average around 400kbps, painfully slow. I managed to increase this by doing it all to a USB drive and starting from scratch on the NAS, only took 4 days of my only computer taken up by transferring data!
So now I have my broken laptop hard drive in an external enclosure and am running chk dsk on it. Not sure if it will allow me to get any data off afterwards but I hope so! It is saying it is 10% done and that is 12 hours since it started, Would be so much easier to buy a new one, but that doesn’t seem like an option right now, I want other toys first!
This could take a while.
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