How to Save a Dying Hard Drive
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- Опубликовано: 21 авг 2024
- Ever wondered what to do if you hear the click of death coming from your hard drive? …No? Ah, well we're going to tell you anyways, so you know. Unsolicited advice, that's what we're all about over here.
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NO. NO. NO...... real men don't do backups we just lay down and cry when the shit i dead
I literally laughed for 5 minutes uncontrollably when I read this!
Well that is what happened today
its too true
Does anyone know why my whole windows explorer is not responding when I connect my "almost dead" hard drive ? I want to try to backup last bits and pieces while it still has some life juice in it, but can't because as soon as windows boots up my whole explorer (file browser) crashes... Anyone knows how to fix it?
@@bojan0258 its dead already.
3:42 "If you're not tech savvy enough to find a few folders and copy them make a disk image"
10/10 flawless logic
Probably means get someone else to do it, since if youre that clueless about where your files are youre screwed anyway without help.
Navigating directories to back up specific folders is a bitch, plus you might overlook a few things. I rather download a program to back them all up EASY
My PC clicks 70% of the time for 4 years now. Still isn't dead, miracle?
Yup
My ps4 does that but its fine (sometimes)
@@Rain_r4in yea my hdd is clicking way more now. STILL. NOT. -BITTEN- dead*
edit: oh I replied in 10 secs after you posted yout reply lol
@@bobi_lopataru well my ps4 does that
Mine is 15% in 4 years lmao.
i remember that day like it was yesterday all porn gone it was a sad day
ha
+Andy oh yes, we also remember the despair.
+Andy Same
My condolences.
+Andy lol
I've been doing freelance IT for the last 8 years, and here are my tips.
1. Put a Ziplock bag with a little bit of water and ice on top of the drive. Make sure you put a paper towel (thinner the better) on top of the drive first in case the bag starts to condense. This has fixed infinitely clicking drives, extremely slow (50Kb-100Kb just the other day) drives, and simply ?? don't work drives (just once for me).
On the flip side you can heat up the drive! that should ONLY be a last resort!!! as you can easily cause irreparable damage.
2. Make sure you know where the files you want to recover before you start. You don't want to find yourself with a dead drive half way through when you could have finished if you knew where they were.
3. If you make an image, make sure the program reads the old drive sequentially. "bit to bit" and don't change the partition sizes.
4. Sometimes using slower USB works better, USB 3.0 can possibly stress out the drive. And make sure its a quality USB adaptor. I've gone through my fair share of shit ones thinking they would get the job done.. NOPE! Vantec IMO make the best, S.M.A.R.T. works, and even on newer systems its seen as a Native UEFI drive (that caught me by surprise). And my 8+ year old one it still working like new.
5. You CAN repair bad sectors that S.M.A.R.T. and OS software can't recover (chkdisk for one)!! AND recover the corrupted DATA!! first make an image of the drive as stressing the drive can kill it. I use HDD Regenerator and its saved countless drives and files for me, what it simply does is if you remember old TVs when you would have magnet close to them? it would ruin the image right? and what did you do to fix it? air massage the same magnet! :/ I haven't found an alternative to that program but I'm guessing there might be.
6. The power supply might be messing with how the drive works. This is rare, but I've seen it a few times and would have to use an external power supply or just put it in a PC with a good PSU.
7. Use multiple recovery programs, they all work differently and will give you different results. Example; Program 1, will recover files A,B,C, but not D. Program 2 will recover files A,B,D and not C. Program 3!! A,E,F,G etc etc. Some will recover the file damaged and others will actually repair the damaged file, this is very important for corrupted photos.
8. I don't know anything else off the top of my head, and good luck!!
Didn't Linus's server die and didn't he lose a bunch of data?
Because of mobo
Benny Rosario Well that makes me feel so much better about him teaching me tech stuff... not!
ProtoMario Also, I don't think he lost any data.
+ProtoMario He unlost all of it.
But eh, LinusTechTips is a complete misnomer. Usually more like LinusTechPreposterousTorture.
Siana Gearz Yeah man I feel you.
I thought Linus was done with NCIX?
+PhantomTech I think he recorded a shit ton of vids in advanced
+Darkstar 197
Yeah I knew he had videos pre-recorded, but damn he must've made a ton of pre-recorded videos
+PhantomTech well a 6 minuite video where he reads a pre-written script is not hard to do....
+Chaython Meredith
Hmm I guess that's true
+PhantomTech Why if I'm allowed to ask?
My SSD is clicking, what should I do?
panic
Stop eating the purple mushrooms... Or call the fire department.........
+𝘀𝗸𝗶𝗹𝟯𝘇 yep... I would...
+mv03dl100 you OK mate?
+Lindelwe Ncube u ok? m9 u got a liquid ssd woiew
FYI you can shrink the partition before making the image, if the drive is defragged. depending on the defrag quality, this can save you a lot of space and/or you won't need as big of a target drive
You should have 4 backups
1: Keep a copy on the computer
2: Back up to an external HDD
3: Back up to a Bluray
4: Back up to the cloud
I have this xD 2 240gb ssd- 500gb external drive and online in onedrive
5. Back up your ass
+GGRektNoobeZ360quickscopelegendnazi666 -0 videos-
740Gb is that all?
I have the following.
2x120GB SSDs
1x1TB HDD
1x500GB USB HDD
16TB in a RAID 5 config.
7GB of free dropbox storage.
2x50GB BD-R discs.
LooooooooL i only have 240gb of files xF
Blu-ray is kinda good idea
u are not saving a dying hard drive, u are saving only data...
i was thinking to watch a video when linus open the hard drive and do something crazy to save it -.-
+LPnova99 while there are things that can be done to repair the harddrive, it would be cheaper and easier to buy 10 4TB HDD's then to repair the one dying drive.
+LPnova99 I thought the same thing. He is talking about saving the data, not the drive itself. That title is very misleading.
+LPnova99 save it for a coaster, or in a box full of old hardware in the back of the closet.
+LPnova99 Like HDD CPR?
I also was expecting there to be some sort of home remedy however I'm not the least bit surprised that there wasn't one since companies that specialize in data recovery and don't even guarantee success will charge thousands of dollars to do so... so it doesn't make sense that they would charge such an incredibly high amount if there was some way a person who doesn't know shit about computer components could fix it on their own. This video was at least full of useful information, especially the creating an image of the hard drive part. That sounds like the best course of action IMO.
I remember the day when one of my hdd wen't to the big motherboard in the sky
went*
What to back up .
#1-porn
#2-csgo settings
#3 - have i mentioned porn?
Kaneki Ken I have a dedicated porn drive 😅😂
porn Drive 😂😂
my fuckin porn drive died guess I should've backed it up
OH SHIT
i havent even thought about csgo!
my life is over....
Ah yes csgo settings.
my 3TB HDD just got the click of death, i cried like my father died
@@youmoron1917 lol
well my ssd is dead so can i have a small loan of milion dollars
+sam rit Still waiting on mines
Sure trump
+It's Akile Are you building the wall? What mines are you using to keep the fuckers out?
k lol Proximity of course
Heading: How to save your hard drive
Video: How to backup your hard drive
🙌🙌🙌CLICK BAIT🙏🙏🙏
L. BARUAH I know right
He wasn’t lying though. He just explained how to save your data by making a backup on another hard drive
@@tokenchoke But that's saving data, rather than saving the hard drive.
How to save HDD. Victoria is best for this.
No way. It’s not like it’s titled that because it’s the only way to do it
I don't think you explicitly mentioned this anywhere Linus. Whichever method you decide to use, if it's your boot disk, hook it up to a different PC first so you don't boot from it. If not, your (sequential) backup will be intertwined with regular reads by the OS thus rendering the whole operation riskier than needed.
I think the "I thought linus left" thing is becoming a troll.
I think that they filmed these videos before he left
+Joona Pimiä you missed the point
The8BitLego not so obvious... Whatever
WOW seriously ! My hard drive just died this week, still clueless and depressed about it. Thanks NCIX tech tips! Hope this works!
That was some good advice Linus, thanks.
I have seven 1TB drives I've collected over the years and never had an issue. Problem is, they are all full and I don't know what I should do with all that data haha. Contemplating just leaving most of it and buy a couple drives to backup only the most important stuff. a good 70-80% of it is blu-ray movies so it isn't that bad if I lost it.
This is what kinda sucks about SSDs. You get no warning at all if your SSD dies. There is software to monitor its health but if it just decides to die one day you're screwed. Ask me how I know.
+NiceGuysRUs Tried to turn on my PC one day and couldn't. That's about it.
+NiceGuysRUs My SSD decided to just die haha. Gave no warning at all
+NiceGuysRUs probably because he replaced his ssd and it worked
+Telly Vin-a Just over a year. Bought it last black friday and it died about 2-3 weeks ago? It's a reputable brand and drive too (sandisk ultra ii 240g) just sometimes you get bad luck and get a shitty one. It has monitoring software, but it didn't give me any warnings and said 99% health right up to when it died.
+HJOTech Harddisks only give warning in about half the cases. Often, they die unpredictably. Since SSDs fail much less than half as often as hard disks, you're still at advantage with SSDs.
SSDs have wear monitoring. If it was actually wearing out, it would not die altogether, it would become read only, and you'd get a warning before. So SSD wear out is easier to predict than hard disk wear out, and not as critical. But of course SSD death is a random event and has nothing to do with wear at all.
my 13 years old HDD works great, 65,7GB!
+Jakub Krawczuk 79GB on my old pc lol
Once you have saved all your data and it turns out the drive is out of warranty, one thing you can do is disassemble the drive. Not only will you learn the inner working of the drive, you can reuse and recycle the parts. For example, the controller board can be resold online because people buy those when they have a controller failure instead of the header failure. The platter can be reused as a mirror as they are really polished and very reflective. The magnets can be reused for your refrig or experiments. The casing and other metal parts can be recycled. It is a fun project.
His voice is deeper. I don't like it.
+Albert Einstein its just puberty, very normal for humans
+A Banana he finally reached it, heh
+A Banana hahaha :D
He is talking about a hard drive failing .. The most crushing thing that can happen to a human being
+Sultan Mansoor only commoners use hard drives :P
Simple, don't buy Seagate HDD's..
+Peter Jönsson So true, i bought me Seagate HD brandnew a little over a year ago and i'm getting really loud clicking when my computer boots and opening programs such as spotify ect.
+CS:GO is better than COD. I used to have a Seagate harddrive...when it died it took with it all my other HDD's that was on the same SATA line..
Western Digital team!
+Peter Jönsson I have a 3 year old 3TB, 2 year old 4TB, a 5 year old 1TB. All Seagate and all working fine. What should I do?
+camomatt My computer is eating through drives. I had about 5 drives fail in my rig in 1 year. 2 Seagate, 1 Samsung, 1 Toshiba, 1 Hitachi. So then what do I do?
i had a dying hard drive with gameplay recordings on it. trying to transfer or back up the data normally made it just stop being recognized by the system until the next bootup. but i could still put the files into a video editor and render them. so i did that and rendered them onto a new drive. im not sure how that worked, but it did.
That click of death has haunted me for the last months, we both still live on
Great tutorial....backing up files on a cloud based storage works great. Dupplica is a good one with almost limitless backup storage space options available.
5:10
That expression! Yeah. Gotta make backups.
All this talk of backups makes me realize how value-less my data is. If all my drives failed, I'd just have to re-download steam games.
I have a drive that is failing, not yet fully failed. And i have a 1.5tb of footage I really would like to keep on there for making video purposes. But I dont really have a spare 2tb hard drive laying around for the disk imagine and I my data corrupts when i just flat out copy it to another drive so im fucked until i get a new drive
I use a program called Hard Disk Sentinel on all my systems. It constantly monitors the SMART data on the disks, and it tells me if any problems arise (High temp, an bad sector develops etc) It also has a bunch of other tools that I can use to give a hard drive tests, like sequential read, random read and even controls the drive's acoustical and power management (where supported)
I saw our new IT guy put a hard-drive in a waterproof esd bag, then put frozen cold packs below and above the drive to chill it down as much as possible. He managed to read a raw image off that drive and copy it onto a new one. This was an old 500MB drive off a 20 year old pick-and-place machine. I was shocked/amazed how none of the many previous IT people ever bothered to backup any of the hard-drives on our equipment on the shop floor. They only fixed/backed-up people's PCs' and wouldn't touch any equipment on the production floor. (Not my job syndrome, I suppose). Me and the new IT guy made a continuous improvement project out of putting every piece of equipment (mission critical!!!) on the shop floor on a regular backup schedule.
never had a failed hdd. still got everything backuped about every 2 weeks.
I backup about every 1 week, on day where i do major change i will backup it up asap
I put important stuff on an SSD so I don't lose anything CRUCIAL
Get it? Crucial? Because Crucial is an SSD manufacturer? Haha...ha...
+Mr Kagouris SSD's can fail too
they fail too
But it's less likely to.
2:16 I believe the future would be Seagate's hybrid drives, only with a much larger "buffer" because Flash Memory is getting cheaper, with an option to slow the drive itself down to reduce stress. For instance, if it has a maximum speed of 7200 or even a ludicrous 10000 RPM, you could slow it down to like, 360 RPM or something.
Another option is to make SATA Hotplug (Motherboard bios must support this) hard drives and cut the 12V and 5V wires and connect them to a correct button that hold position 1 (ON) and position 0 (OFF) when clicking on more pins (2 pole or more) and just use the HDD when u want to turn the HDD on with the button. So basicly functionality is like an USB Portable HDD but the diference is that it is connected to SATA ports.
TL:DR : How to save a dying hard drive
step 1: save your dying hard drive.
back your files.
you're welcome.
had one HDD click for 2 months, and then went back to normal. I dont trust that HDD to not spontaneously blow up on me.
I have an interesting HDD here's the story:
The HDD is runs and working fine and one day the HDD start to give clicking noises, freezes and more and more errors like bluescreen, not booting windows etc and later the HDD is finally unable to boot the Windows and the PC says: Disk boot failure. The interesting part is I unplug the HDD and don't use for a long time and one day I start using it again and working fine without any problems for a long time and start that things again, again. That happened many times. I really don't know what's going on with the HDD. :D. I currently on the state when I not using it, one day I check again. (That's gonna be interesting to see the old Windows.)
I love that everybody thinks Linus is gone and still the most popular NCIX videos are with Linus. Not trying to say something though, I love every one of the creators of this channel. They are all both professional and funny. Love this channel.
One tip is to do a directory listing in DOS, if you can, to a text file on another drive. That way if you do loose the drive you'll know what you lost and it will be simpler to replace those files from your backups.
So I save all my videos/photos for work and personal on an external hard drive. I shoot 4K videos and photos so cannot store my files on my laptop. How do I back up my data? Do I back up my external hard drive on another external hard drive .... weeping because that's expensive
Just buy a quality USB External portable hard drives, thats what I do
More like ''How to save the files of a dying hard drive''
I couldn't even guess how many hard drives have failed on me over the years. Bloody good thing I do backups. I'm now using SSDs almost exclusively as I hear they do not fail catastrophically like hard drives do. They give you lots of warning when they are reaching their end.
With SSDs they work and all of the sudden die with all data gone and unrecoverable.
My hard drive started failing TODAY. Man, this video could not have been timed more perfectly!
I have an interesting HDD here's the story:
The HDD is runs and working fine and one day the HDD start to give clicking noises, freezes and more and more errors like bluescreen, not booting windows etc and later the HDD is finally unable to boot the Windows and the PC says: Disk boot failure. The interesting part is I unplug the HDD and don't use for a long time and one day I start using it again and working fine without any problems for a long time and start that things again, again. That happened many times. I really don't know what's going on with the HDD. :D. I currently on the state when I not using it, one day I check again. (That's gonna be interesting to see the old Windows.)
It is problem of mother board of HDD. Your platters are good . Ithink so
There is also the state when the PC doesn't recognize the HDD. Currently it works again.
Currently the HDD works again.
@@MMaheshThakur yes, they are probably good. I still can't imagine what is wrong with the HDD. You are probably right with the motherboard.
@@VDani16 my 2tb wd portable HDD is going is dead 1.1 tb data gone. I'm very sad. These compny are sucking our blood
False bait click title. This isnt how to save a dying hard drive its how to save data on a dying hard drive. If a hard drive is dying there is no way to save it.
+jazzthieve The only idiot here is the one who is incapable of elaborating his point.
+jazzthieve Excellent demonstration, thanks for playing genius.
+eraldorh
Protip: A hard drive IS data. All technology fails eventually.
Except Nokias. They're built out of Nintendium.
+eraldorh The title is indeed incomplete, but it isn't a bait click. The content is very related. If anyone was to attempt to repair a dying HDD, the first step would be to secure the data.
If your HDD is failing or clicking and you can't copy data off it, put it in an anti static bag, in a zip lock bag. And put it in the fridge/freezer. (If your freezer builds up with chunks of ice don't do this)
When you power it on try copy the data you need ASAP before the drive warms up again. Worked a few times, but if the drives dead it won't magically allow you to get everything.
I had an experience with a failing drive many years ago. It was a Micropolis Full Height 40 Mb drive put in service in 1986. The problem seemed to be that the platters were very slow to come up to speed. If the computer was turned off, the system would report a hard drive failure, but if you left it on long enough it would operate normally. It was using a different operating system called Qunix which was like a small version of Unix that allowed multitasking on a 286 PC when DOS and Windows would not and was necessary for the application than needed to crunch analog data into digital in real time. It would have been difficult to restore in its later years of use, so the solution was to make sure the drive was never powered down. I managed to nurse it along until the year 2000 when it was no longer needed. 14 years was pretty good and I doubt if current drives would last that long.
you dont give any solution
I've been using computers since 1997, and never saw any of my HDD dying. Nevertheless it's a constant fear in my mind, even with backups.
Good for you, I most likely will get another one. Twice in total.
So true when you think that your backup drive could fail very soon after your hdd fail or when it just kind of make u go to full anxiety mode
Also consider a fantastic utility called Spinrite. Been around forever, and I've used it many times throughout my career. It's great if the drive is already starting to fail and you can't get to your files. Can often recover a drive to fully working when it had already begun to fail.
usually i use ddrescue for this task: unlike dd, it skip (initially) bad sectors, and continue to read all disk (to get more data quickly), then try to re-read bad sectors.
I managed to save 249.40GB raw data form an failed hard drive (my boss was angry and threw it's laptop on ground while it was working), but it tooks 3 weeks of 24h work before finishing (1 day for all good sectors, the rest for recovery damaged sectors).
However, an double backup of important data is an must, blu ray are the best for this.
Where did I go wrong?
I lost a friend.
Fireclaw Studios
Somewhere along in the bitterness
And I would have stayed up with you all night
Had I known how to save a life
My old hard drive has been making clicking noices for the past 4 years and it's still working :PP
You are soo freaking right. If you heard click before you probably have backup now.
RAID 1 is a life saver (literally). In 14 years I had to replace one of drives 3 times. Almost all data on drive is research results, customer projects and so on.
as soon as i heard about seagate hard drives' reliability, i bought two hgst nas hard drives. i'm so relieved i solved my problem before the seagate failed
my laptop fucked up on Thursday, completely... today there is the video...
If you don't care about the data on the drive (or have already recovered it and verified that it's correct) and just want to get the drive itself working again, try running the ATA secure erase with hdparm (which will fully erase the drive, including bad sectors). This may or may not get the hardware working again, depending on what the specific problem is. I was able to re-use two failed drives that were full of bad sectors using this method. You MUST set an ATA password on the drive before running a secure erase, and it MUST be connected directly to the SATA controller, not through a RAID controller or USB adapter.
I had a hard drive in which the disc would not even begin to spin. However, I removed the drive from being mounted within the computer, powered up the computer, and while holding the drive in my hand I gave it a quick spin in the opposite direction that the internal disc spins. This caused the disc to spin relative to the casing, and then the motor was then able to get the rpm up to norm after that on its own. Just getting it started was all that was required. Then I copied all the data to another hard drive.
Funny that they posted this video up now. I suffered a failing drive for the first time last week. I managed to get an image of the drive before sending it off for RMA so I haven't lost anything.
Interesting enough, as soon as this started I paused, went downstairs and started a backup that I hadn't done in a month. Need to make that a regular thing.
As long as it spins and is not your booting drive, *MiniTool Power Data Recovery* might help. It saved me a couple of times.
My old HDD started running SUPER slow, searches took forever, system would freeze, game loading times went mental. Opening a new tab in chrome/firefox just froze everything.
I got a new one and it works sooooooo much better. It never made any clicking, though... Managed to get the most important stuff off of there so I'm happy :) (Well, as happy as someone can be when they open their computer case and see a new desert...)
Acronis will image only the areas of data used so if you have a 2TB drive and only ~400GB used, you can image it to a 500GB drive, it'll even handle re-sizing partitions for you automatically.
Clonezilla can handle sector by sector for encrypted drives.
Active boot disk can image a partition and reduce the size of the partition to the size of the data that is used instead of size of actual partition. So if you have 700GB of data on a 2tb disk you can put the image on a 1TB disk if need be.
I haven't had a drive fail on me yet, but I do have a drive that is going to be 8 years old this year, so I have been babying it along until I can start backing stuff up.
Invest in higher grade NAS drives for your personal builds. I got a 4TB HGST NAS Drive for $164, which is great. 128mb cache, 7200 RPM, 1 million hour warranty, and tons of integrated features like anti shock. For that price, its a no brainer.
I just wanted to say thank's Linus, the info in this video helped me find out which one of my mechanical HDD was making that "clicking" noise, and now I have the software to do something about it. No more lost data for me. :)
Guys, I have a tip for some of you students that is always in fear of losing projects and what not. Get a google account and use google drive. This has saved my at least 6 times including today. You files upload instantly to the cloud (given you are saving to the drive sync folder) and you have no worries about losing that precious project. Also you can access it on any device once you have internet.
this has plagued me several times, now i back everything up!
I bought a year of Amazon Unlimited for $5 on Black Friday and now got my whole PC backuped. Damn that feels good.
Sorry for your loss, just dealt with this issue :(
hey, linus is back
If you're not tech-savvy enough to choose what files are most important, you're not tech-savvy enough to use PartImaged.
Quick tip: If you want to backup your save game files for games other than Steam, or even Steam ones since those can corrupt like any file, a good program to get is GameSave Manager, which will search your entire computer for save games and put them all in one handy file for safe backups.
Now my clicking developed its own clicking lol
this is for ncix tech tips. some big titles is coming up for ps4 .and I am going crazy with you tube videos, showing how to upgrade hard drives but to me all is so confusing. I am looking to upgrade for 6tb external hard drive upgrade. and many is saying that is not possible but yet I saw some other sailing that is possible. can u guys do a video regarding this issue for thousands of viewers that's struggle with this problem, so far this is the only channel I can give credits! thanks
You can try one more thing as a last resort
Remove the hard drive from the computer. Place the hard drive inside of a freezer bag. Place the wrapped hard drive inside of another zip top freezer bag. Place the double wrapped hard drive in your freezer. Leave the hard drive in the freezer for 12 hours at least. Once very chilled, install the hard drive in your computer and
start pulling off data. Begin with the most valuable data. At some point, the hard drive will fail again. When it does, mark the last successfully copied data, pull out the hard drive, double wrap it again and stick it in the Chill Chest for another 12 hours.
Linus, you always make me Smile! :)
Great video on memory back up, now I must not forget to do this :)
Use at your own risk Pro tip: If your drive is clicking and you cannot read data off of it,pop it into your freezer for 10-30 min then pop it back into the computer (don't let water condense on the dive if possible).
The change in temperature will change the density/size of the parts and can let the machine move past its mechanical failure. It let me use my drive for long enough to pull off critical data when I had a click of doom failure, Good luck!.
Eventhough I knew all if this already, I really think this video has broad use spectrum. Thumbs up
Damn, I bought a prebuilt PC back in 2009 and the 500gb drive in there is still working.
I built a PC 2 months ago, but I probably should get a new drive for it.
Expected a hard drive dissection video. You failed me Linus.
This video should be on tv in every NFL superbowl
Most partitioning software can actually shrink the copied partition to just a little over it's data size before copying it.
I heard you can find places that can replace the PCB of the hard drive if there was no physical damage to the platters or hardware done. You can at the very least get it back working to transfer to a new drive, however a lot of times its as good as 'new'
4:10 wrong, you can make a compressed image to a file to an actual smaller drive (assuming that used space is smaller than backup drive), all zeros get compressed
I have a computer that's click of deathing and has been for almost 8 years now, still working fine
I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you’re referring to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX. Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called “Linux”, and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project. There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use.
Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine’s resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called “Linux” distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux.
The way he said leisure It kills me
so that loud fan isn't my fan is a metal sniping disk every time i play an hour long video?
the times I've tried cooling off my laptop
My secondary Hard Drive has a bad sector. I just left the area with the bad sector non-partitioned. Works fine for me.
Back, back, back that data up Linus!
My hard drive is failing right now, and well, let's say I'm in deep sh*t
I took it out and changed the position of placement it turned on and backed up some of the things. When everything is backup just used it till it doesnt turn on
This is why I use solid state drives. If you plan on keeping your data, use a solid state. A hard drive without a disc
No, *you don't need a drive with as much space as the failing drive*. If you use a program like Aconis it will clone the drive or image proportionally, removing any wasted space. Acronis will also ignore bad sectors, which is great for failing drive recovery.
But for a failing drive MOST of the time the best approach to recover data is to grab small chunks of your mydocs, pic, music, videos in the order that is most important. Because from my many years of experience with recovering client data from dying drives the drive (if you can actually get into it) has a potability of completely failing at any time. So snatching small chunks at a time can give you the best chance of getting your important data at least some or most of it and not wasting time trying to recover useless system and temp files.
Ncix music is awesome
Oh sorry my mind drove off somewhere else while you were talking