Re: [H] HD troubles Part II

2007-04-07 Thread Brian Weeden
Can anyone help with deciphering this? Am I good or is this SMART stuff saying the drive is bad? http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=pIkHR2B_QrGUU7s5_T3v9eQ Basically, I am trying to clone the drive but both utilities I have tried (gparted and Acronis) weren't able to copy it. chkdisk

Re: [H] HD troubles Part II

2007-04-07 Thread Rick Glazier
Looks better than my drive! (I have 5 reallocations and one pending...) Note: Google recently released a white paper describing their experience with Smart HD stats on their (IIRC) 100K drives. They found no reason to trust them. Some drives complain and then work, and others go belly up with

RE: [H] HD troubles Part II

2007-04-07 Thread Bobby Heid
My Raw Read Error Rate is 0 on all 4 of my drives. Seek Error Rate is 0 on all 4 of my drives. I do have one drive with a Reallocated Sector Count of 72, a reallocation event count of 60, Current Pending Sector count of 2, Uncorrectable Sector Count of 1, and a Write Error Count of 1. Guess I

[H] Gold and silver recovery and refining was: I'm SHOCKED !!!!

2007-04-07 Thread Al Anger
FORC5 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: gold recovery, I wonder how this is done and if it is worth it ?. In the early eighties, I remodeled a good size, two story building called The Miami Postal Credit Union into a gold and silver recovery and refining plant for a company called IMC,

Re: [H] Gold and silver recovery and refining was: I'm SHOCKED !!!!

2007-04-07 Thread Rick Glazier
FORC5 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: gold recovery, I wonder how this is done and if it is worth it ?. From: Al Anger http://al_anger.home.comcast.net/gold/lab.jpg any questions? Just the original one (IIRC). How much is the gold worth that is recovered from a standard RAM chip. (Any pin #...)

Re: [H] Gold and silver recovery and refining was: I'm SHOCKED !!!!

2007-04-07 Thread Al Anger
Rick Glazier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just the original one (IIRC). How much is the gold worth that is recovered from a standard RAM chip. (Any pin #...) This was early eighties, so I don't know. Sorry (Neat pictures, thanks.) your welcome. al

Re: [H] HD troubles Part II

2007-04-07 Thread Hayes Elkins
Are you fairly certain it is the hard that is the culprit? You try that new drive with a new OS install in that same system sans the old drive? From: Brian Weeden [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: The Hardware List hardware@hardwaregroup.com To: The Hardware List hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject:

Re: [H] Gold and silver recovery and refining was: I'm SHOCKED !!!!

2007-04-07 Thread DHSinclair
for potential precious metal in the raw scrap: http://al_anger.home.comcast.net/gold/lab.jpg and http://al_anger.home.comcast.net/gold/lab2.jpg any questions? best, al __ NOD32 2172 (20070407) Information __ This message was checked by NOD32 antivirus system. http://www.eset.com

Re: [H] HD troubles Part II

2007-04-07 Thread Thane Sherrington
At 11:30 AM 07/04/2007, Brian Weeden wrote: Can anyone help with deciphering this? Am I good or is this SMART stuff saying the drive is bad? It's going bad: Raw Read Rate and Seek Error rate have high raw numbers and the Worst numbers are different than current (which means even the

Re: [H] Gold and silver recovery and refining was: I'm SHOCKED !!!!

2007-04-07 Thread Al Anger
DHSinclair [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just how have you managed to learn so many different kinds of stuff? Always ready for a new challenge. When ppl ask, Can you do that? Have you ever done that before? I reply with everything I've ever done, at one point, I hadn't done before. best, al

Re: [H] HD troubles Part II

2007-04-07 Thread Brian Weeden
I finally got the cloning done. I used the Acronis Emergency Disk to make a bootable CD-RW. It sat there for a good 15 min at 0% complete but I just came back after running errands for a couple hours and it was done. I am using the new cloned drive now and it seems to be perfect. I don't

Re: [H] Gold and silver recovery and refining was: I'm SHOCKED !!!!

2007-04-07 Thread Scott Sipe
On Apr 7, 2007, at 3:03 PM, Al Anger wrote: FORC5 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: gold recovery, I wonder how this is done and if it is worth it ?. In the early eighties, I remodeled a good size, two story building called The Miami Postal Credit Union into a gold and silver recovery and

RE: [H] HD troubles Part II

2007-04-07 Thread Bobby Heid
I had a system a work last year where the HD would click like the OP said, then there would be a freeze of a couple of seconds. PITA. After trying to figure out the problem, I replaced the HD and had no more problems. Bobby -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL

Re: [H] Gold and silver recovery and refining was: I'm SHOCKED !!!!

2007-04-07 Thread DHSinclair
Al, You're a brick, son! Very cool... :) That's about how I learned PC's and networking.. Best, Duncan At 17:31 04/07/2007 -0400, you wrote: DHSinclair [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just how have you managed to learn so many different kinds of stuff? Always ready for a new