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[ale] Did WD15EARX consume my weekend?
- Subject: [ale] Did WD15EARX consume my weekend?
- From: james.sumners at gmail.com (James Sumners)
- Date: Tue, 15 May 2012 11:14:55 -0400
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Nice. Glad you got it figured out.
On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 11:08 AM, PairOfTwins
<PairOfTwins at mindspring.com> wrote:
> Jim:
>
> Actually, memtest failed! ?Much to my surprise, the screen turned
> seriously red. ?I swapped RAM out and memtest was fine.
>
> I've just finished repartitioning, reinstalling, and then copying nearly
> 1 TB of data. ?The 2 target partitions both passed e2fsck, and a compare
> of 2 movies passed also. ?I'm happy now.
>
> The value of a second opinion! ?I was focused on the NEW hardware, where
> the problem WASN'T.
>
> Tom
>
> BTW - Win7 couldn't even see the hard drive due to a missing driver.
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pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it
is magnetic to the corruptible. Such people have a tendency to become
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