Ever since I removed power to the 70GB drive with sector problems, the computer has been solid as a rock.

Fine by me, just replaced it with a 250GB drive instead. Ends up I get more space, and a faster, less noisy drive.

On with my daily life.

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Take a look at this website I found discussing the likelihood of an ice age returning sooner rather than later.

Interesting read. How Global Warming May Cause the Next Ice Age…

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See our new listing here.
Our new listing is priced $272,900 and has our newly revamped front yard with newly painted bridge and wishing well converted to flower pot.

PPPPPPPPPPLLLLEEEEAAASSSSSSEEEEEEE SOMEONE BUY THIS HOUSE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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I swear, as soon as I wrote that blog entry that my problems were cured, boom, I froze again. LOL.

So, back to the drawing board. The drive I thought was the problem was now in Tammy’s computer and I was still having problems.

I then rebooted with that hard disk utility program and went to bed with the software scanning my 70GB drive. It held my software, audio files, and restore files.. That’s right, restore files. Irony eh?!? lol

When I got up in the morning, the software was reporting bad sectors all over the place. I think this drive was causing all the freezing problems.

So, I took my new Seagate drive and copied all my files from that drive to my 250GB drive in Tammy’s computer via the network. This took the better part of the day… transferring 200GB of files is no small job.

Once done, I repartitioned my new drive to smaller drives including a new 20GB drive for Software.

Once I had that done, I copied all my Software files from the old drive D to the new 20GB partition. I shut down. I unplugged the old drive from power. I booted back up.

Now there’s a missing drive D that had all my program files. In otherwords, 50 errors on booting up that everything is missing.

I loaded the disk manager I changed the drive letter of the new 20GB drive to drive D: and rebooted. Believe it or not, after the reboot, it worked!! No errors and all the software from what I can see is working.

Hopefully this will be the end of this computer problem issue!!! So tired of it. Now I will transfer my other 250GB drive from Tammy’s computer back to my computer and install her new 250GB SATA drive there. Once done, we should have plenty of storage for a couple years.

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I was always a huge fan of Press Your Luck as a kid and had no idea that Press Your Luck was hacked by a contestant.

Read the story. Very good read.

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Remember my blogs from a week or so ago where I said I was having computer problems? I have been struggling since to get this computer working correctly.

2-3 days ago, I unplugged the power to one of the HDDs I just added recently and my computer became solid as a rock. Ah ha! That hard drive (non system disk.. no formatting required) was the culprit I thought!

So I went to newegg and bought a couple new HDDs at 250GB each. I bought an SATA one for Tammy’s computer since she is running out of disk space again and I bought another 250GB for me.. this time, a Seagate one with a 5 year warranty.

Last night, I finally opened my computer, installed the new 250GB disk drive, hooked up the old bad one again, and disconnected my CD-Rom since all 4 IDE ports were now taken. From there, I immediately formatted my new disk using the Computer Disk Manager that comes with Windows XP (thank God Microsoft made this available, I hate FDISK with a passion!).

After formatting the disk, I realized in the disk management screen, that the “bad drive” had a partition with a swap file on it. WHAT!?!?! I don’t know WHEN I thought having a drive P with 70GB disk space would be a great candidate for a 1GB system swap file. So, I removed the swap file from there and drive C and placed a 3GB swap file (fixed size) on drive D.

I then started copying about 200GB worth of data from the old disk to the new disk. I chose to copy instead of move because if the disk failed, I wouldn’t know where to pick up the new transfer or what files may be corrupt. Wouldn’t you know it, not one BSOD, not one crash, not one error, NOTHING!

One last thing I did before going to bed was I downloaded a Drive Fitness Test from Hitachi. I let that run all night as I went to sleep and everything checks out fine.

So, now, I will probably put 2 250GB disks in Tammy’s computer. I moved all the HDDs around in my computer to allow more space for heat and removing the swap file from drive P, my computer is solid as a rock again. Even with 4 HDDs going right now.

Hopefully this disk will hold up in Tammy’s computer. If not, I will claim the 3 year warranty on this retail drive and send it back.

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Our house’s escrow fell through and the house will be going back on the market.

Apparently the buyer was in a bad car accident and had the choice of either buying a new car or buying a house. She chose car.

There’s so many problems with that excuse but oh well, I can’t fight it. We will just relist the house at a much lower price and hopefully move it faster.

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Last night, we finished up painting the entire house. Cole’s room and ours took the longest to do.

The only thing left to paint is behind our heavy china cabinet. We will do that in the last week before we leave. We don’t want to move that thing until we know for sure the escrow will close without problems.

Next week, we will start the packing process. Yay! LOL

Thinking about going quading tomorrow in Daggett just to take a break and see the neice’s and nephews. Need a break. They don’t know this yet so hopefully they will be available in the afternoon sometime.

I slept overnight for 9 hours and must have slept another 2-3 hours in the afternoon. So tired and sore. Oh well, tomorrow is another day.

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