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Challenges keep us occupied, John! That's a good thing 
Geek Post - My last two weeks rebuilding a computer [emoji3]
Our computer upstairs doesn't get used much these days, but once in a while we need it for something. It's a Dell optiplex 760. The disk was clearly getting crunchy on the system partition, so I decided it was time for an upgrade, double the ram and drop in a new solid state drive.
I ordered the ram and a pcie adapter for an M.2 drive that I had around. Memory went great but the m.2 was no good - turns out the 760 bios doesn't support it, no upgrade with that capability.
Newegg had a decent sale on a sata ssd so I ordered one.
In the meantime, my overall plan was to use clonezilla, which meant I had to shrink my existing hard drive's system partition down to a size that would work with the new disk. I did a half dozen rounds of compacting and optimizing using partition master and gparted tools. Gparted is fast, but the optimizing stuff is really slow, takes multiple reboots, sliding the file table around, temporarily disabling pagefile and swapfile on the system partition.
The new sata ssd shows, along with a 3.5" adapter. I do a partition-partition clone with clonezilla, connect the new drive as primary, and voila! - won't boot, no operating system detected [emoji3]
Running through my available cloning tools I broke out aomei. I set it up to do a direct system clone to new ssd and it throws a mystery error 209, which is it saying it isn't happy with the new ssd's file table before it even starts to clone - a nutty error since cloning involves writing over anything that previously exists on the disk.
I recable the ssd to act as an external usb drive, reboot the old hard disk, format the ssd, run a chkdsk /f /r on it, no errors.
Reconnect the ssd as as internal sata drive, tell aomei to clone, end up with the same error.
More head scratching, research, I finally break out minitool partition wizard. I tell it to clone the system to a new partition, and do the same for my old disk's data partition, as well as leaving a bit of blank space that I could reconfigure later to be the pagefile and swapfile partition.
Finally success! The computer is now much more responsive, no glitches, and I've retained the old disk in it in case I ever have to swap back.
I'll probably look for another sata ssd on black Friday sales, a larger one for my data files and to be the backup for the relatively small ssd.
I've got another sata cable on the way, so I can reconnect the dvd, but that one really "should" be a 5 minute job.
Our computer upstairs doesn't get used much these days, but once in a while we need it for something. It's a Dell optiplex 760. The disk was clearly getting crunchy on the system partition, so I decided it was time for an upgrade, double the ram and drop in a new solid state drive.
I ordered the ram and a pcie adapter for an M.2 drive that I had around. Memory went great but the m.2 was no good - turns out the 760 bios doesn't support it, no upgrade with that capability.
Newegg had a decent sale on a sata ssd so I ordered one.
In the meantime, my overall plan was to use clonezilla, which meant I had to shrink my existing hard drive's system partition down to a size that would work with the new disk. I did a half dozen rounds of compacting and optimizing using partition master and gparted tools. Gparted is fast, but the optimizing stuff is really slow, takes multiple reboots, sliding the file table around, temporarily disabling pagefile and swapfile on the system partition.
The new sata ssd shows, along with a 3.5" adapter. I do a partition-partition clone with clonezilla, connect the new drive as primary, and voila! - won't boot, no operating system detected [emoji3]
Running through my available cloning tools I broke out aomei. I set it up to do a direct system clone to new ssd and it throws a mystery error 209, which is it saying it isn't happy with the new ssd's file table before it even starts to clone - a nutty error since cloning involves writing over anything that previously exists on the disk.
I recable the ssd to act as an external usb drive, reboot the old hard disk, format the ssd, run a chkdsk /f /r on it, no errors.
Reconnect the ssd as as internal sata drive, tell aomei to clone, end up with the same error.
More head scratching, research, I finally break out minitool partition wizard. I tell it to clone the system to a new partition, and do the same for my old disk's data partition, as well as leaving a bit of blank space that I could reconfigure later to be the pagefile and swapfile partition.
Finally success! The computer is now much more responsive, no glitches, and I've retained the old disk in it in case I ever have to swap back.
I'll probably look for another sata ssd on black Friday sales, a larger one for my data files and to be the backup for the relatively small ssd.
I've got another sata cable on the way, so I can reconnect the dvd, but that one really "should" be a 5 minute job.
I’m sorry it was such an ordeal for you Mark but yay for a new pc!!!!
After a nerve grinding crazy summer at work, we are going to close the vape shop. The mall is in a sad state of decay, been happening for years and despite our best efforts it’s just time to go.
I wasn’t sure what I would do next but decided no amount of stressing over it would help.
On Friday, to my complete surprise, I was offered a position in the vape shop I worked out of 2 years ago before they moved me to this location. Guys, it’ll be like going HOME! Yayyy!
Wish me luck?!?! This shop is a BUSY one!
After a nerve grinding crazy summer at work, we are going to close the vape shop. The mall is in a sad state of decay, been happening for years and despite our best efforts it’s just time to go.
I wasn’t sure what I would do next but decided no amount of stressing over it would help.
On Friday, to my complete surprise, I was offered a position in the vape shop I worked out of 2 years ago before they moved me to this location. Guys, it’ll be like going HOME! Yayyy!
Wish me luck?!?! This shop is a BUSY one!
WTG figuring out how to get a stubborn rebuild done, Mark!
Congrats Tracy!!
We're having a couple of cooler days in the lower to mid 80s...I'll gratefully take them
Congrats Tracy!!
We're having a couple of cooler days in the lower to mid 80s...I'll gratefully take them
Cooler here too and I’m digging it!!!
Yesterday was my daughter Lauren and her fiancés engagement party. It was held outdoors under a pavilion and boy was it ever gorgeous weather for it!
I’m more than ready for you FALL!
Yesterday was my daughter Lauren and her fiancés engagement party. It was held outdoors under a pavilion and boy was it ever gorgeous weather for it!
I’m more than ready for you FALL!
Howdy Y'all. I hope everyone is in good health. It's been cooler here too.
Mark you should of just went into the boot menu and reset the boot drive. I run SSD's on all mine and disk drives for storage. This one has two 500 gig SSD's and 3 HDD'd. My other one has a 350 SSD and a HDD. The only thing I have on the SSD is the Op sys.
We had to put one of our cats down. It had pancreatic cancer and was getting pretty bad.
Mark you should of just went into the boot menu and reset the boot drive. I run SSD's on all mine and disk drives for storage. This one has two 500 gig SSD's and 3 HDD'd. My other one has a 350 SSD and a HDD. The only thing I have on the SSD is the Op sys.
We had to put one of our cats down. It had pancreatic cancer and was getting pretty bad.
I run an Apple laptop....If it quits I hit the Best Buy.....Very interesting that ya'll can fix those computers though.....
Sorry about the cat 5.....
Congrats on the job and engagement party 908 !!! I'd rather work be busy so the time won't drag by......
Cuzzo was married to a rich girl....her family owns a Carmel candy factory in Carmel California....or some such shizz anyways....Girl's Pop died and Mom is in a facility....house on lake empty for 5 years now...Cuzzo's Ex and kids got what they wanted outta the lake house and then hired myself and Cuzzo to clean it on out....There have been some real prizes found....today I brought a stuffed pickup bed worth of stuff back....04 ranger pickup in the garage and details being worked out on me getting that for some landscaping...We'll see and I certainly hope it works in my favor....These people ain't even got a job and have to hire help....Sheesh...I'll take advantage...Pretty much down to touching up the paint at the beach....little errors like hitting the ceiling with wall paint and where the tape had other ideas...gotta install the toilet and caulk everything....paint the doorknobs and install the curtain hanger thingys....Then clean out the tools....I'll be glad to be finished with that...
Sorry about the cat 5.....
Congrats on the job and engagement party 908 !!! I'd rather work be busy so the time won't drag by......
Cuzzo was married to a rich girl....her family owns a Carmel candy factory in Carmel California....or some such shizz anyways....Girl's Pop died and Mom is in a facility....house on lake empty for 5 years now...Cuzzo's Ex and kids got what they wanted outta the lake house and then hired myself and Cuzzo to clean it on out....There have been some real prizes found....today I brought a stuffed pickup bed worth of stuff back....04 ranger pickup in the garage and details being worked out on me getting that for some landscaping...We'll see and I certainly hope it works in my favor....These people ain't even got a job and have to hire help....Sheesh...I'll take advantage...Pretty much down to touching up the paint at the beach....little errors like hitting the ceiling with wall paint and where the tape had other ideas...gotta install the toilet and caulk everything....paint the doorknobs and install the curtain hanger thingys....Then clean out the tools....I'll be glad to be finished with that...
Thanks Fran and LD.
LD I used to buy mine from Best Buy but I started building my own. I can get more bang for the buck that way.
LD I used to buy mine from Best Buy but I started building my own. I can get more bang for the buck that way.
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Hey'Ya !!!.... So the Cardio Doc canceled last week and just for kicks.... He's rescheduled again, this time it Sept 13th.
Hope everyone is well and I will make a better effort to hop in here more often.
Hope everyone is well and I will make a better effort to hop in here more often.
I'm sorry about your kitty, J5
Dee, I know you're glad the beach house is almost done!
Hey Wharf!!
Happy yall are enjoying some cooler weather, Fran and Tracy! And congrats again to Lauren
Dee, I know you're glad the beach house is almost done!
Hey Wharf!!
Happy yall are enjoying some cooler weather, Fran and Tracy! And congrats again to Lauren
Always nice to see ya pop in,Wharf
Hey, Bov It was dang chilly this morning. August is usually our hottest month. Not so this year.
Hey, Bov
It was dang chilly this morning. August is usually our hottest month. Not so this year.Wharf now I am worried. Your appointment is not only Sept. 13th it's also Friday the 13th.
Howdy all. I hope all is well.
I've been working on a newer table saw so I've been dismantling the old one that weighs almost as much as my Eldorado. It was one of them old Craftsman saws made out of pig iron. I figured I'd get some exercise and get some things done at the same time.
Howdy all. I hope all is well.
I've been working on a newer table saw so I've been dismantling the old one that weighs almost as much as my Eldorado. It was one of them old Craftsman saws made out of pig iron. I figured I'd get some exercise and get some things done at the same time.
Hi all!
I've been lucky to take most of the past week off, time to start working again (for two days - I'll take 3 day weekends through September, probably [emoji3]).
DW and I have managed to get to our state fair three times, will likely go there once more this coming weekend. There's simply a lot of different things to do, enjoyable days getting in a lot of walking, seeing exhibits and various performances, trying out specialty foods. Today's 2pm free concert was Blood, Sweat and Tears - a very nice set, closing with a handful of classics [emoji106]
We're painting the house at our camp, making good progress, then have a couple of other items to prep and paint.
I've been lucky to take most of the past week off, time to start working again (for two days - I'll take 3 day weekends through September, probably [emoji3]).
DW and I have managed to get to our state fair three times, will likely go there once more this coming weekend. There's simply a lot of different things to do, enjoyable days getting in a lot of walking, seeing exhibits and various performances, trying out specialty foods. Today's 2pm free concert was Blood, Sweat and Tears - a very nice set, closing with a handful of classics [emoji106]
We're painting the house at our camp, making good progress, then have a couple of other items to prep and paint.
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