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The dieing computer

Friday, November 9th, 2007 – 4:45:24 pm

[Clip art]Ok, so my old computer is slowly dieing. Slowly might be the wrong word. It is down to less than 200mb out of a total 10gb.  (Both of those numbers might look a bit sad to you tech-savvy people out there)  I’m thankful, however that the external hard drive connected to it is only about 5% filled out of a total of more than 20 times the space on the main hard drive.

Anyway, I tried backing up the entire hard drive via network, but Windows was using the hard drive so certain files couldn’t be read.  Then I put in my ubuntu disk and rebooted to load the livecd environment.  After a while of searching for the right options, I

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Upgrade in a few days.

Saturday, September 22nd, 2007 – 5:18:01 pm

I’ve removed the ability to post comments and this will be the last post until Monday or Tuesday next week. Let’s hope that the backups I made will work well if I need them.

You can find an article about what I’m going to need to do here

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