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EvilWayz

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I bumped the power button on my home theater system and fried the micro sd card. Lost all my music, my OS and my backup won't read. So I have to buy a new sd card, re-install my OS, and reinstall my ten terabyte library, AND copy all the music off my phone back to my home theater.

BALLS.
 
I bumped the power button on my home theater system and fried the micro sd card. Lost all my music, my OS and my backup won't read. So I have to buy a new sd card, re-install my OS, and reinstall my ten terabyte library, AND copy all the music off my phone back to my home theater.

BALLS.
Have you tried one of those recovery services? Ones that can restore bad hard drives? They might be able to recover your SD card. I've got backups of backups because I have two decades of crap stored on SD cards.
 
Have you tried one of those recovery services? Ones that can restore bad hard drives? They might be able to recover your SD card. I've got backups of backups because I have two decades of crap stored on SD cards.
I can recover a standard or SSD hard drive myself, all day long. When an SD card goes bad, it's gone.
 
Do you recommend any companies for recovering a physically failed HDD?

It's a standard drive.
Are you able to open in safe mode? If so you can probably recover yourself going back to the day before it crashed.
 
Its in an adapter in a usb port, and it's not identifying it as present.

I think i have a standard card reader in my laptop, assuming it even works, I'll try that next.
My question was for fats. But I've had an adaptor crap out on me before, wouldn't read card anymore. Something else to try.
 
I got three, none of them are reading.
Maybe try that site I cut and pasted, borrow a windows system and try and recover card to windows, then reload into Linux? I know zilch about Linux. No idea if they are compatible. At least the underlying data should still be there.
 
Maybe try that site I cut and pasted, borrow a windows system and try and recover card to windows, then reload into Linux? I know zilch about Linux. No idea if they are compatible.
one fun thing about linux, using a virtual machine, or WINE, I can run windows programs within the linux environment. The problem is the sd card is formatted in ExFat, and the linux partion is in ext4 for the boot partion and the rest is partitioned in reiserfs. That's going to be the hard part.
 
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Because I chose to run Xubuntu on reiserfs, it squeals when I try to read anything other than ext2/3/4 or reiser. Thats what happens when you use a lite Ubuntu distro.

Although....

If I run full Ubuntu on a liveUSB, I might be able to get around that.

THANKS!
I have Linux Mint on a 1TB USB backup drive. I am using windows 10 on a desktop and my laptop. One can update to 11 the other can not. I will not update until forced. All my old machines get some version of Ubuntu or Mint once they lose Windows support.

I am curious, why reiserfs?

Good luck with the recovery.
 
I have Linux Mint on a 1TB USB backup drive. I am using windows 10 on a desktop and my laptop. One can update to 11 the other can not. I will not update until forced. All my old machines get some version of Ubuntu or Mint once they lose Windows support.

I am curious, why reiserfs?

Good luck with the recovery.
reiser automatically marks bad sectors. its also better at moving around blocks in the rare case of defrag.
 
one fun thing about linux, using a virtual machine, or WINE, I can run windows programs within the linux environment. The problem is the sd card is formatted in ExFat, and the linux partion is in ext4 for the boot partion and the rest is partitioned in reiserfs. That's going to be the hard part.
Congrats to the SD card on its weight loss and new outlook on life.
 
The Seagate is a 10TB drive or do you have multiples? What app are you using? Plex?
Its a 10 tb drive I got out of a video surveillance system in a external enclosure.

I use LibreElec, which is Kodi and a library server, plus fun addons like netflix, hulu, disney+, and prime all rolled up into a distro that runs half a gig.

EDIT: I have five drives total, mounted to /var/media/
 
I lost all 52 episodes of Blake's 7 in a HD crash. The HD was newer and I had not gotten around to duplicating it when it crashed. Unknown to me it was a known issue with that drive's firmware and recovery involved using a RS232 port and hyperterminal. I never got around to procuring the cables needed. That drive still sits in a drawer.
 
I have Linux Mint on a 1TB USB backup drive. I am using windows 10 on a desktop and my laptop. One can update to 11 the other can not. I will not update until forced. All my old machines get some version of Ubuntu or Mint once they lose Windows support.

I am curious, why reiserfs?

Good luck with the recovery.
I stayed on Windows 7 until they no longer supported it. The newer Windows programs may be better but they moved EVERYTHING around and make it impossible to find. They could have improved the platform without completely hijacking the dashboard. :mad:
 
I lost all 52 episodes of Blake's 7 in a HD crash. The HD was newer and I had not gotten around to duplicating it when it crashed. Unknown to me it was a known issue with that drive's firmware and recovery involved using a RS232 port and hyperterminal. I never got around to procuring the cables needed. That drive still sits in a drawer.
Do you need it? i could make a torrent file real quick like...
 
I stayed on Windows 7 until they no longer supported it. The newer Windows programs may be better but they moved EVERYTHING around and make it impossible to find. They could have improved the platform without completely hijacking the dashboard. :mad:
XP was the ultimate UI and i liked the 95 UI. As Tom from SwithedToLinnux says they are supposed to be "Desktops" as in you keep icons ON the desktop just like you would on a real desktop i.e postit note,s a stapler, your typewriter, clock, rolodex, calendar and etc.
 
XP was the ultimate UI and i liked the 95 UI. As Tom from SwithedToLinnux says they are supposed to be "Desktops" as in you keep icons ON the desktop just like you would on a real desktop i.e postit note,s a stapler, your typewriter, clock, rolodex, calendar and etc.
The entire "Windows" concept was stolen in its entirety from Commodore64.

Incidentally, Com64 is out again, ranging from 300 for the bare bones to 1100 for the ultimate gamer package. Runs linux or Windows, natively.
 
The entire "Windows" concept was stolen in its entirety from Commodore64.

Incidentally, Com64 is out again, ranging from 300 for the bare bones to 1100 for the ultimate gamer package. Runs linux or Windows, natively.
Gates stole Excel from Intuit's Lotus 123. He's an effing thief. :mad:
 
Do you need it? i could make a torrent file real quick like...
You have Blake's 7?

I recompiled it over time from various sources even using youtube.

What I have not done yet is run everything through handbrake to have a uniform format. I usually choose Roku 720p format to keep the file size nice with a decent experience when watching on my smart tv.

I just plug in an 2TB USB drive directly into the TV and avoid wireless or theater app hiccups altogether.

I click through a few folders and i am ready to go.
 
The entire "Windows" concept was stolen in its entirety from Commodore64.

Incidentally, Com64 is out again, ranging from 300 for the bare bones to 1100 for the ultimate gamer package. Runs linux or Windows, natively.
Well not to be argumentative but it was actually stolen from Xerox. But I had a C64 and look to get a new one with USBs once they are fully in the USoA and on shelves.

The last part is the tricky one for them it seems.
 
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Gates stole Excel from Intuit's Lotus 123. He's an effing thief. :mad:
Well he did not steal DOS although his procurement was shady.

I think he paid 50K for it and had a contract with IBM for millions for it. He closed both deals "simultaneously"

I wonder how the poor guy felt when he realized the 50K bonanza he just scored was chump change and Gate knew it when he offered him the 50K.

Its got to suck when that feeling you are on top of the world depositing that check is quickly replaced with the knowledge that you just got took to the cleaners.
 
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You have Blake's 7?

I recompiled it over time from various sources even using youtube.

What I have not done yet is run everything through handbrake to have a uniform format. I usually choose Roku 720p format to keep the file size nice with a decent experience when watching on my smart tv.

I just plug in an 2TB USB drive directly into the TV and avoid wireless or theater app hiccups altogether.

I click through a few folders and i am ready to go.
I have the complete series on .avi. My server is down for a library update right now, but here's the hash:
magnet:?xt=urn:btih:a4fa5bf59bdb03bc6d8f97ad1b954b112c40dde3&dn=BBC+-+Blakes+7+(1978-1981)+COMPLETE&tr=udp://tracker.openbittorrent.com:80&tr=udp://tracker.opentrackr.org:1337/announce

Its 18 gigs.
 
Well not to be argumentative but it was actually stolen from Xerox. But I had a C64 and look to get a new one with USBs once they are fully in the USoA and on shelves.

The last part is the tricky one for them it seems.
Did not know that, given Xerox's stance on its intellectual property, I'd imagine Commodore paid them a licensing fee.

C64 is still the only system that could display video at two different resolutions on the same screen.
 
Did not know that, given Xerox's stance on its intellectual property, I'd imagine Commodore paid them a licensing fee.

C64 is still the only system that could display video at two different resolutions on the same screen.
Actually Xerox invented tons of stuff and let others come in and take it for themselves. She may not be as big of a sl^t as she once was but she was easy once.

Yeah Unix, Linux, Mac and Windows all had their way with Xerox.
 
Actually Xerox invented tons of stuff and let others come in and take it for themselves. She may not be as big of a sl^t as she once was but she was easy once.

Yeah Unix, Linux, Mac and Windows all had their way with Xerox.
That doesn't surprise me. I understand Linus Torvalds, the guy who ported the unix kernel and created linux, is kind of an enormous douchebag.
 
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