The "Quick Questions that does not Deserve a Thread"...Thread. V4
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[QUOTE=YuckFou;44251542]I didn't think to put this question in here instead of making a thread earlier tonight! Whoops....
So here'goes....
Hi everyone, I'm in a bit of a jam. My macbook pro (17inch mid 2011) had a panic attack (August 2013) I didn't really dig into it's cause for the panic, but I'm pretty sure it was CPU caller issue.
Anyway, I am super strapped for cash, and in serious need to get the documents off of the hard drive. I went to best buy, bought a cheap $40 120GB or something, just to get my computer up and running again. Reinstalled Snow, then later upgraded to Mavericks, to use the computer to view and erase footage and create future space for future recording on my security camera. Problem is, I tried hooking up the computer to an IDE cable, to the MBP that's now running again, and it pops up under disc utility, but when I click on it, or try to act on it in any way, it just sits there, and either freezes up the computer, or tells me it's just unreadable or something (it's been a while.)
I really really need a way to get my data off of it (around 500GBs), but more importantly, right now I need a pages document off of it for an emergency situation. I've been searching the web when I have time for data recovery services/software, but nothing seems like it's concise enough or guaranteed to work in any satisfying capacity.
If there's anyone here who can help, it would be greatly appreciated![/QUOTE]
Erm, Macbooks don't have IDE ports. Either you're describing things wrong (which makes it hard for us to help), or you're doing something [I]incredibly[/I] wrong.
If you're just trying to get documents off the hard drive, just remove the hard drive and put it in another computer. [url=http://www.ifixit.com/Guide/MacBook+Pro+17-Inch+Unibody+Hard+Drive+Replacement/3401]This guide might help[/url], since Macs are needlessly difficult to disassemble. Take it out, plug it into another working computer or an external enclosure, and it should appear as a readable partition. Copy everything off of it that way, rather than trying to use a broken computer to copy things off it.
[QUOTE=gman003-main;44251626]Erm, Macbooks don't have IDE ports. Either you're describing things wrong (which makes it hard for us to help), or you're doing something [I]incredibly[/I] wrong.
If you're just trying to get documents off the hard drive, just remove the hard drive and put it in another computer. [url=http://www.ifixit.com/Guide/MacBook+Pro+17-Inch+Unibody+Hard+Drive+Replacement/3401]This guide might help[/url], since Macs are needlessly difficult to disassemble. Take it out, plug it into another working computer or an external enclosure, and it should appear as a readable partition. Copy everything off of it that way, rather than trying to use a broken computer to copy things off it.[/QUOTE]
I bought an IDE to USB cable. And I don't think you can take the disc out and just plug in anywhere else and get that kind of activity off of it. It's a panic'd drive, It crapped out on me and my mbp wouldn't boot (2nd time I've had a mac panic on me.) So the hard drive is corrupted somehow obviously, reason I'm reiterating this is because if it were able to work like that, I wouldn't have had to take the disc out and replace it to get the laptop to boot again.
I could be wrong, but I've never read anywhere on the net so far, since august of last year that is, of anyone successfully getting a drive that panic'd the way mine has, and have had a successful recovery off of it by simply plugging it in anywhere else without specialized software/recovery tools.
[QUOTE=LaughingStock;44251473]at this point i'm not sure if it's me being stupid, or some outside force just not wanting me to exceed.
I'm trying to port forward so I can set up an IRC channel and stuff but nothing I'm doing seems to be working. The most progress I've made is setting the IP that it forwards to to the default address on my Mac, which gives me "Connection refused" instead of "Connection timed out."
It tells me "Connection timed out" on Windows and OS X when I manually change the address, and change it accordingly on my router settings page. I tested it with my firewall off too.
sorry if that sounds like mumbo jumbo, I only sort of know what I'm doing.[/QUOTE]
oh sweet jesus i must be stupid. In order for it to show up as open an application has to be actively using the port.
[QUOTE=lavacano;44231114]Are you using Windows 8.1?[/QUOTE]
I am
My XP rig built in 08 is getting slow as fuck. I've been too lazy to format. It's pretty clear that dear old XP is getting old, so I'm thinking of formatting and moving on to new OS. Is windows 8 the answer? I like to play games, but I'm getting a little more into making music. Mostly just normal browsing.
[QUOTE=Maucer;44259318]My XP rig built in 08 is getting slow as fuck. I've been too lazy to format. It's pretty clear that dear old XP is getting old, so I'm thinking of formatting and moving on to new OS. Is windows 8 the answer? I like to play games, but I'm getting a little more into making music. Mostly just normal browsing.[/QUOTE]
Yes, well 8.1 of course
Specs?
[QUOTE=PollytheParrot;44259461]Yes, well 8.1 of course
Specs?[/QUOTE]
Nvidia 9600gt 512
2 gigs or ddr2 800 mhz
E4600 at 3Ghz
Crappy 250 gig WD drive that's probably near its end.
I haven't really been fixing computers for a hot second and I need some help. I have a hard drive from a laptop with Windows 8 on it, and I need to pull the data off of it. I currently have it hooked up through an external dock, I can read that it's there through disk management, but I can't currently read the data on it.
[QUOTE=Nsybouts;44260809]I haven't really been fixing computers for a hot second and I need some help. I have a hard drive from a laptop with Windows 8 on it, and I need to pull the data off of it. I currently have it hooked up through an external dock, I can read that it's there through disk management, but I can't currently read the data on it.[/QUOTE]
What error are you getting when you try to read from it? I'd expect permissions problems, which is easy enough to bypass (google "ntfs take ownership" and you'll find a solution), but it sounds like you might be having other issues.
[QUOTE=gman003-main;44260848]What error are you getting when you try to read from it? I'd expect permissions problems, which is easy enough to bypass (google "ntfs take ownership" and you'll find a solution), but it sounds like you might be having other issues.[/QUOTE]
I'm not getting any errors, I just can't see it. I can see it in disk management, but that's it.
[QUOTE=Nsybouts;44260899]I'm not getting any errors, I just can't see it. I can see it in disk management, but that's it.[/QUOTE]
Sounds like the volume just isn't mounted. Right-click on the volume in Disk Management, there should be an option to mount it or set the drive letter or something (I can't remember the exact wording, and I can't exactly test right now).
[QUOTE=gman003-main;44260966]Sounds like the volume just isn't mounted. Right-click on the volume in Disk Management, there should be an option to mount it or set the drive letter or something (I can't remember the exact wording, and I can't exactly test right now).[/QUOTE]
Alright, when I go to set the new drive letter it's giving me the option to make 100% of the space available on the drive available. I don't want to wipe what is currently on the drive though.
[QUOTE=buster925;44257530]I am[/QUOTE]
That's why - when you installed 8.1, your useragent string changed. I'm not exactly certain what to, but it's not one Facepunch expects to see, so it doesn't have an icon for it.
If it bothers you enough, I've used [url=https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/user-agent-switcher-for-c/djflhoibgkdhkhhcedjiklpkjnoahfmg?hl=en-US]this useragent switcher[/url] successfully in the past, you can report a vanilla Windows 8 to Facepunch if you like.
Okay, here's a thing.
This morning my sister came to me all distressed because her school laptop wasn't booting into windows and all her homework is on there. It's some Lenovo thing where the keyboard flips all the way around to the back so that it becomes a tablet and she got it from the school.
I had a look and it had some boot device selection screen up but the only two options (windows and the big long factory name of the samsung ssd that windows was installed on) both just resulted in the screen going black for half a second and the same menu coming up again. I went and got a usb stick with my favourite linux distro on it and put that in and it decided it was okay with booting from that so that was good, I guess, but when I got in there it seemed like the drive with windows didn't have any mountable partitions on it or anything. I looked at it in GParted and it just had the whole thing marked as "unknown".
I ran the is-my-drive-fucked test that GParted lets you do and it said the thing was fine hardware-wise so I decided to just cat /dev/sdd (I think that's which one it was anyway) and in between all the usual garbled ascii shit there were some big long microsoft windows looking strings of text so I am guessing most of her homework and stuff is all still on there and now I just need to figure out how to get it back.
Long question short: If a drive is fucked to the extent that it can't be mounted or booted from but not so much that all the data on it has ceased to exist, how do I get my little sister's word documents off of it?
[QUOTE=Little Donny;44263177]Okay, here's a thing.
This morning my sister came to me all distressed because her school laptop wasn't booting into windows and all her homework is on there. It's some Lenovo thing where the keyboard flips all the way around to the back so that it becomes a tablet and she got it from the school.
I had a look and it had some boot device selection screen up but the only two options (windows and the big long factory name of the samsung ssd that windows was installed on) both just resulted in the screen going black for half a second and the same menu coming up again. I went and got a usb stick with my favourite linux distro on it and put that in and it decided it was okay with booting from that so that was good, I guess, but when I got in there it seemed like the drive with windows didn't have any mountable partitions on it or anything. I looked at it in GParted and it just had the whole thing marked as "unknown".
I ran the is-my-drive-fucked test that GParted lets you do and it said the thing was fine hardware-wise so I decided to just cat /dev/sdd (I think that's which one it was anyway) and in between all the usual garbled ascii shit there were some big long microsoft windows looking strings of text so I am guessing most of her homework and stuff is all still on there and now I just need to figure out how to get it back.
Long question short: If a drive is fucked to the extent that it can't be mounted or booted from but not so much that all the data on it has ceased to exist, how do I get my little sister's word documents off of it?[/QUOTE]
Try using photorec or foremost
[QUOTE=Little Donny;44263177]Okay, here's a thing.
This morning my sister came to me all distressed because her school laptop wasn't booting into windows and all her homework is on there. It's some Lenovo thing where the keyboard flips all the way around to the back so that it becomes a tablet and she got it from the school.
I had a look and it had some boot device selection screen up but the only two options (windows and the big long factory name of the samsung ssd that windows was installed on) both just resulted in the screen going black for half a second and the same menu coming up again. I went and got a usb stick with my favourite linux distro on it and put that in and it decided it was okay with booting from that so that was good, I guess, but when I got in there it seemed like the drive with windows didn't have any mountable partitions on it or anything. I looked at it in GParted and it just had the whole thing marked as "unknown".
I ran the is-my-drive-fucked test that GParted lets you do and it said the thing was fine hardware-wise so I decided to just cat /dev/sdd (I think that's which one it was anyway) and in between all the usual garbled ascii shit there were some big long microsoft windows looking strings of text so I am guessing most of her homework and stuff is all still on there and now I just need to figure out how to get it back.
Long question short: If a drive is fucked to the extent that it can't be mounted or booted from but not so much that all the data on it has ceased to exist, how do I get my little sister's word documents off of it?[/QUOTE]
Maybe the partition table's somehow destroyed and you can just rebuild it?
[QUOTE=lavacano;44268925]Maybe the partition table's somehow destroyed and you can just rebuild it?[/QUOTE]
You know, I was actually just thinking that. TestDisk can do that can't it?
So no way of getting this issue resolved? (Bottom of page 110)
[QUOTE=YuckFou;44251542]I didn't think to put this question in here instead of making a thread earlier tonight! Whoops....
So here'goes....
Hi everyone, I'm in a bit of a jam. My macbook pro (17inch mid 2011) had a panic attack (August 2013) I didn't really dig into it's cause for the panic, but I'm pretty sure it was CPU caller issue.
Anyway, I am super strapped for cash, and in serious need to get the documents off of the hard drive. I went to best buy, bought a cheap $40 120GB or something, just to get my computer up and running again. Reinstalled Snow, then later upgraded to Mavericks, to use the computer to view and erase footage and create future space for future recording on my security camera. Problem is, I tried hooking up the computer to an IDE cable, to the MBP that's now running again, and it pops up under disc utility, but when I click on it, or try to act on it in any way, it just sits there, and either freezes up the computer, or tells me it's just unreadable or something (it's been a while.)
I really really need a way to get my data off of it (around 500GBs), but more importantly, right now I need a pages document off of it for an emergency situation. I've been searching the web when I have time for data recovery services/software, but nothing seems like it's concise enough or guaranteed to work in any satisfying capacity.
If there's anyone here who can help, it would be greatly appreciated![/QUOTE]
Data recovery software needs to be able to read the hard drive, if the OS can't read it I doubt any software will. You could try booting into Linux and seeing if that will read it, but if not I'm really not sure what could help. This is a reminder why you should always backup important files!
[QUOTE=djjkxbox360;44279299]Data recovery software needs to be able to read the hard drive, if the OS can't read it I doubt any software will. You could try booting into Linux and seeing if that will read it, but if not I'm really not sure what could help. This is a reminder why you should always backup important files![/QUOTE]
Most OS's give up when they cannot mount the disk, and OS's like OSX and Windows often just throws arbitrary errormessages like "Disk unreadable" etc, which is not to much help. Which is why I recommended him to try to mount it under an Linux distro, ex Ubuntu, to see what exactly the error is.
[QUOTE=YuckFou;44278757]So no way of getting this issue resolved? (Bottom of page 110)[/QUOTE]
I answered you in your thread and recommended you to try an Linux distro to read the disk, and get precisely what the error is. But I never got any response, did you try it? If so, what was the error? In most cases its just the partition layout, or other data which have been corrupted, and your files are still intact. This causes most OS's to throw diskerrors at you, as the disk is unreadable by convential means, but a tool like I recommended to Little Donny above (Photorec or Foremost) could get the data out.
I'm having problems with my Mic in goldsrc games, namely Sven Co-op. It's a Guitar Hero mic made by Logitech.
I can hear myself fine with the microphone test in the voice settings, but nobody can hear me ingame. Also it's pretty quiet even with all my levels maxed with boosted gain. Is it because it's USB and goldsrc is old as fuck?
[QUOTE=Anderen2;44279517]I answered you in your thread and recommended you to try an Linux distro to read the disk, and get precisely what the error is. But I never got any response, did you try it? If so, what was the error? In most cases its just the partition layout, or other data which have been corrupted, and your files are still intact. This causes most OS's to throw diskerrors at you, as the disk is unreadable by convential means, but a tool like I recommended to Little Donny above (Photorec or Foremost) could get the data out.[/QUOTE]
The error is mostly unknown to me, but when I took the codes and matched them to apple support, they came up as a CPU0 Memory problem. My guess is some kind of kernel panic.
[QUOTE=YuckFou;44283191]The error is mostly unknown to me, but when I took the codes and matched them to apple support, they came up as a CPU0 Memory problem. My guess is some kind of kernel panic.[/QUOTE]
That error have nothing to do with the disk. How are you reading the drive in the first place? You mentioned IDE, do you have an seperate working computer where you are reading the disk with some IDE>USB adapter?
Is it worth getting an upgrade from 4GB to 8GB now? Birthday coming up soon and I might be able to get an upgrade. Main reason is I want to keep my PC up to date for the future but how likely is it that I'm going to see a performance boost running what I have now?
Is the NuForce UDAC-2 any good? I'm getting one for free for helping someone build a computer and was wondering if it would be worth keeping or trading in for something else.
[QUOTE=Genericenemy;44288952]Is it worth getting an upgrade from 4GB to 8GB now? Birthday coming up soon and I might be able to get an upgrade. Main reason is I want to keep my PC up to date for the future but how likely is it that I'm going to see a performance boost running what I have now?[/QUOTE]
I run 8GB on my laptop, but 6GB of my desktop.
It depends on what you do with your machine.
If it's just browsing, or just gaming, not really a reason to upgrade.
If you're running a 2 or 3-screen setup and browsing the Internet while playing an MMO, oh God yes get an upgrade.
If you use virtual machines at all, yeeeeeeeeesssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss
[QUOTE=nikomo;44289876]I run 8GB on my laptop, but 6GB of my desktop.
It depends on what you do with your machine.
If it's just browsing, or just gaming, not really a reason to upgrade.
If you're running a 2 or 3-screen setup and browsing the Internet while playing an MMO, oh God yes get an upgrade.
If you use virtual machines at all, yeeeeeeeeesssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss[/QUOTE]
Or if you play minecraft
[QUOTE=Zerokateo;44290141]Or if you play minecraft[/QUOTE]
I haven't loaded up Minecraft in quite a long time, don't play MMOs or use multiple screens. I think I'll save some money and buy some game controller adaptors with it instead.
Hey guys I got a 780gtx couple months ago with a 620watt psu. I now ordered a evga 780gtx ti classified w/ ACX air cooling special gpu for OC'n Its on its way but I realised I still need a better psu for this monster card I dont think it deserves a thread thought. Is 750watt eneugh when I already have a OC'd i5 4670k cpu at 4,6ghz.
Considering I already did fair bit of research but im unknowlingly on what the rest of my pc would use. this card has wattage output off 370. Under full load and when OC'd. Might even be more. Since im considering water cooling for this card if the temps get to high.
[QUOTE=Stephen427sf;44290845]Hey guys I got a 780gtx couple months ago with a 620watt psu. I now ordered a evga 780gtx ti classified w/ ACX air cooling special gpu for OC'n Its on its way but I realised I still need a better psu for this monster card I dont think it deserves a thread thought. Is 750watt eneugh when I already have a OC'd i5 4670k cpu at 4,6ghz.
Considering I already did fair bit of research but im unknowlingly on what the rest of my pc would use. this card has wattage output off 370. Under full load and when OC'd. Might even be more. Since im considering water cooling for this card if the temps get to high.[/QUOTE]
You will be fine with a 750W if it is of good quality.
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