Make a bootable floppy with a batch file that XCOPYies (no replace) the critical data from the drive (e.g MYDOCU~1) to some other device.
Power down, power up. It's a little bit like a crapshoot:
If you power up and hear 'the click of death', power down, try again.
If you hear a normal drive startup, you should be ok for a few files, the AUTOEXEC.BAT is going to pull out a few files-- maybe get stuck on a bad sector, mash the [I]gnore button repeatedly to skip over them.
When the drive freezes up again, start over.
I was able to salvage data off a IBM StinkPad laptop that way.
Excellent suggestion. I've always wondered why noone has integrated PAR2 into INFOZIP, BZIP2, etc...
Errors would be detected and recovered automatically while PAR2 files scanned for recovery info. Heck, why not stream recovery packets right into the compression stream -- just like solomon-reed and CDROMs.
Ti-Paul is not friendly to quebecois. He gonna screw us over in ways never seen since the Trudeau era.
Just watch him
Btw we are ALREADY paying a levy on blank CDRs and soon on any other medium that could be used to store music. This "Internet tax" is just a logical progression.
486/66 running Red Hat 5
Nintendo NES with 5 carts
Five Commodore 64 and 1541 disk drive
Commodore 128 and 1571 disk drive
A shoebox filled with C= floppies
Apple ][ clone with floppies and monitor
Atari 2600 second gen, 6 carts
Sinclar ZX-81 with 16KB and printer
And most importantly, transfer cables to move data between C= and A][ to the x86 PCs via LPT
When Asia decided to go ahead and create their own video disc regional standard (VCD, SVCD) the same arguments were thrown: It's not compatible, you'll be locked out of the world market, yadda yadda...
Today, the majority DVD player now support VCD, SVCD (which have NO DRM whatsoever) and MP3s (bonus). DiVX;-) support is just starting to appear. I betcha by XMAS the 'de facto' player will list DVD,SVCD,VCD,DiVX,WMA,MP3 compatibility (and OGG too hopefully).
Simple marketing: Q: "How do we get all those people with DVD players to spend money on a new one this Xmas?" A: Release a new line with new ATTRACTIVE features.
A nice resource for all that is USB. I found some UBS drivers for DOS that allows mounting Pendrives off a strait msdos boot floppy -- something that was supposed to be impossible.
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Ohhh. I thought a 'Passion of Christ' shot got in there accidentally...
Power down, power up. It's a little bit like a crapshoot:
If you power up and hear 'the click of death', power down, try again.
If you hear a normal drive startup, you should be ok for a few files, the AUTOEXEC.BAT is going to pull out a few files-- maybe get stuck on a bad sector, mash the [I]gnore button repeatedly to skip over them.
When the drive freezes up again, start over.
I was able to salvage data off a IBM StinkPad laptop that way.
Errors would be detected and recovered automatically while PAR2 files scanned for recovery info. Heck, why not stream recovery packets right into the compression stream -- just like solomon-reed and CDROMs.
Nuff said...
(Use the preview button, Luke!)
- You can use it as a fridge magnet. Keep a pry bar around to detach it
- Stick one on a toolbelt, it's strong enough to hold a magnet!
LINL Is Not Lindows
LOAD"GETGEOSPROGRAM",8,1
SEARCHING FOR GETGEOSPROGRAM
?DEVICE NOT PRESENT ERROR
OPEN1,8,15:INPUT#1,N,D$,T,S:?N,D$,T;S:CLOSE1
500 SLASHDOTTED 0 0
FP Light Cycle Game (open source, multiplatform) just like the movie.
And expanding on buzzword betting pool: Buzzword Bingo
On a semi-related note, read Cringely's column on the evil that is a Powerpoint 'stack'.
BTW, 'Clikits' is much too phonetically similar to a word that ends with 'oris'
The passware product merely computes a password that matches the checksum found in the word doc.
MS Bob is Microsoft's Star Wars Holiday Special ...
"With Macrovision we will eliminate bootleg VHS copies once and for all!"
"With Laserlok we will eliminate software piracy once and for all!"
"With Cactus Datashield we will eliminate Audio CD ripping once and for all!"
for each $drm_product
for each $technology
"With {$drm_product} we will eliminate {$technology} piracy once and for all!"
end
end
Just because I can.
Boy that takes me back ...
Ti-Paul is not friendly to quebecois. He gonna screw us over in ways never seen since the Trudeau era.
Just watch him
Btw we are ALREADY paying a levy on blank CDRs and soon on any other medium that could be used to store music. This "Internet tax" is just a logical progression.
Suddenly two years ago GWB decides that Biological, Chemical and Radioactive "dirty" bombs are now WMDs.
Let's be clear about this. Them beer-dipped roaches are not going to find any nukes ...
The VICe Emulator multiple plarform, open-source Commodore Vic20, 64, 128, PET emulator
FCE2 is 64738 in decimal. As in SYS 64738. As in COLD BOOT.
CHROUT, the routine you're thinking of is FFD2.
Nintendo NES with 5 carts
Five Commodore 64 and 1541 disk drive
Commodore 128 and 1571 disk drive
A shoebox filled with C= floppies
Apple ][ clone with floppies and monitor
Atari 2600 second gen, 6 carts
Sinclar ZX-81 with 16KB and printer
And most importantly, transfer cables to move data between C= and A][ to the x86 PCs via LPT
Today, the majority DVD player now support VCD, SVCD (which have NO DRM whatsoever) and MP3s (bonus). DiVX;-) support is just starting to appear. I betcha by XMAS the 'de facto' player will list DVD,SVCD,VCD,DiVX,WMA,MP3 compatibility (and OGG too hopefully).
Simple marketing: Q: "How do we get all those people with DVD players to spend money on a new one this Xmas?" A: Release a new line with new ATTRACTIVE features.
USBman's Linux section
Gibibyte -- still getting used to that one ...
Whaa? Dalton McGuinty is CEO of Both Verisign and SCO???