In the garden, and RAIN!!!!
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UPDATED: Thursday, December 25, 2025 04:27
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Quote:My sentiments exactly. FWIW I have NEVER liked malls. There is just too much visual and auditory noise, and too many people. I never understood people who went to malls for fun.
Originally posted by 1KIKI:Quote:
Originally posted by Brenda:
Quiet, quiet, quiet. Malls I can see are going to be getting to me for the next month. Too many people.
Well, I had stuff to do. So the local mall was the best place. Though, I ate something and ended up eating too much sugar which didn't make me feel any better. So tomorrow is a stay indoors and not do anything much.
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Don't think I care for "Godzilla: King of the Monsters." Don't feel it bodes well for a movie when I can figure out who one of the bad guys is in the first 20 minutes.
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Uggggghhhh....
I think I'm going to have to write it off. The BIOS update was a success and the new version shows up when I boot the PC, but I don't get any new options and the drive still won't work. Apparently, it was just some behind the scenes stability updates, but nothing that will help my drive situation. Better than I have it installed finally than not, I guess.
I've got one or two more things to try, but I don't think they're going to work. After that, I'm just going to have to write it off.
Good news though, is with the new fan and new thermal paste, the temps on the benchmark programs are showing between 50 and 54 Celsius now. They were in the high sixties all the way up to 80 when the old fan was rattling around in there.
I'll have to figure out something else to do with the drive. It only cost me 30 bucks, but I hate wasting money like that.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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I know hubby has run into install problems many times, having to specify which drive to boot from and occasionally even which programs to load in what order. Ok if I ask his advice?
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KIKI just FYI I noticed that DuckDuckGo doesn't have that alpha-numeric soup in its search urls.
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
I'd nuke a BILLION PEOPLE if it would save the other 7 billion from living under Putin. Hell, I might go all the way to the last 100 people on Earth to keep this planet from being under fascist rule.- WISHIMAY
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By all means... If he's got a solution, I'm all ears.
Currently, I have it cloning for a 3rd time using another highly rated free cloning software. I think I'm just wasting my time though. The BIOS has never fully recognized it as a bootable drive and always says "Master Drive Error" and won't boot at all unless I have bootable media in another connected drive.
I've read that mobos that date pre 2008 are pretty hit or miss, although I only read one single person say that. I honestly think that I'm a novelty here. Not that I'm the first one who's tried it, but I'm probably in a very small minority of people who have spent this much time and research on it without just throwing the damn thing out and buying something new.
The good news is, the laptop my old man told me about is a POS that I'd never actually spend money on. These $150 laptops they're selling for Cyber Monday have tiny screens that aren't HD or really any better than the touchscreen I have, they don't have any more memory than the computer that I have, and I can't even put my 256GB SSD into them since they use that new "hard drive on a stick" SSD technology and they're only rocking somewhere around 32GB, which isn't even enough to put a legit Windows 10 install on. It comes with Windows 10 S which is an EXTREMELY limited version of Windows that would drive me nuts.
(Although, with USB 3.0 tech and my SATA 3 SSD, it is possible that I could install a Windows-On-The-Go installation on the external and it would be almost as fast as the crappy small one inside.)
Even with the old drive in my current computer, I'm still better off keeping this thing for as long as it would work.
But hey, if your husband knows a trick that I'm missing, I'd sure love to have that SSD working in there. :)
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Grrrrrrr.....
The new program copied the active partition, then finished copying over 99% of the system partition overnight while I slept only to fail with a generic "error 9" code that references "signature". That put me down a wild goose chase of a path where I thought this might have to do with the drive not being able to correctly put together some important system files.
I was thinking this because before I wiped it after the first install I was using DISKPART to run some commands to make a bootload partition and copy the windows files over and one of the commands (which I can't remember off hand now) gave me an error saying that the action couldn't be completed (which I also can't remember now).
I don't think that's it though... If this were the case, it would probably be the Active partition that would have failed. Although the system partition has the Windows install on it, there's nothing on it except for "dumb" data. It's not part of the boot loading process.
I'm currently using a 3rd program to try it again.
There's really just too many variables here.
I've got a PC that is somewhere in the realm of 13 to 14 years old, with a BIOS upgrade that is 10 years old on it.
I've got a SATA to USB connection cable that is a hybrid of two old products. I've used it as-is before to get data off of old hard drives before I got rid of my hoard, but I never built any system disks with it. This setup is the one that I tried using yesterday when I attempted to use the manufacturer's migration software and it couldn't recognize its own drive on my system.
The other problem with this thing is that these SATA SSD drives don't require external power to operate and could just run with a direct USB connection. This hybrid cable solution I'm using requires me to power it through the wall outlet, potentially putting additional wear and tear on my drive.
I might have to consider that the drive itself isn't good. It's not completely bad, since I can copy files onto and off of it and Windows recognizes it as a legit hard drive. I was also able to boot Windows into safe mode from the USB after the second clone attempt, which is further than I was even able to get with the original laptop hard drive that I'm trying to clone.
Though SSD is aging technology now, particularly the Hard-Drive-Shaped variety, it's all new to me. I'm still thinking in terms of mechanical parts when that's what we're not dealing with here. If an HDD dies, it's dead. Maybe if something goes critically wrong with an SDD it can still do a lot of what it's supposed to do without you otherwise being the wiser? If I were using this thing only as a means of additional storage, I wouldn't even have noticed it doesn't play nice with my current setup.
I have an idea of what to do with it now, at least temporarily. My router allows for a USB connection to a drive to have a network share. I currently have a 65GB stick in there. This would be 4 times the size on the network share and (theoretically) much faster at the job. That would depend on the router having USB3.0 tech though, and I haven't checked to see if that was the case.
I've got about 10 hours to decide if I want to buy a case for it for $9 if I want to have it shipped to my house on Tuesday. I was considering just buying a straight up SATA to USB cable for it to try again, but they're on sale for around $6. If I buy this extremly highly rated case that supports SATA III SSD drives, regular mechanical SATA drives and USB3.0 transport while also being backward compatible to USB1.0, it should cover all of my bases and do everything that the cable itself would have done, while also giving me a nice case for the drive. Even if I somehow get the thing working right, I do have an old laptop hard drive that is in great health which is 320GB in size which still gives me a decent extra external drive for sto
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Well... the third cloning program didn't magically make the drive work.
I do have all the correct data back on it now though. I'm going to do a few things that I've learned about and see if I can manually make any changes that stick through Windows Recovery.
My last attempt will be trying to create a "Windows-on-the-Go" installation through a USB drive, which I already know the computer has no problems initiating. From what I've read, it may be possible to "trick" the computer into booting up Windows from an active partition on a thumb drive that then points to all of the data on the SSD when it finally passes the BIOS. This process was developed by somebody who needed the benefits that UEFI/GPT grant you in terms of storage size for large drives, but was using a system which only allowed for a Legacy BIOS/MBR setup. Although UEFI/GPT isn't even an option on my computer and storage sizes aren't an issue for me, his solution might just work for my needs.
The only downside is that I always have to have one of my USB ports tied up because the system won't even be able to boot unless it's in there. If it works I'm also going to have to tie up two of my sticks for the life of the computer as well because I'm damn sure going to make a copy of it if I now need to start my computer with an ignition key.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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The snow has arrived. Now we see if it stays.
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Related to the Google search experiment:
Quote:No kidding. I shopped for shoes and then got shoe ads on FFF.net
What is the revenue generation model for DuckDuckGo?
Gabriel Weinberg, CEO & Founder at DuckDuckGo.com (2008-present)
DuckDuckGo has been a profitable company since 2014 without storing or sharing any personal information on people using our search engine. As we like to say, what you search on DuckDuckGo is private, even from us! We’re proud to have a business model for a web-based business that’s profitable without making your personal information the product. I’m happy to tell you all about how we make it work (and how other companies can, too).
Though first, if you’re not familiar with DuckDuckGo, we are an Internet privacy company that empowers you to seamlessly take control of your personal information online, without any tradeoffs. We operate a search engine alternative to Google at http://duckduckgo.com, and offer additional apps and extensions to protect you from Google, Facebook and other trackers, no matter where you go on the Internet.
The Big Myth
It’s actually a big myth that search engines need to track your personal search history to make money or deliver quality search results. Almost all of the money search engines make (including Google) is based on the keywords you type in, without knowing anything about you, including your search history or the seemingly endless amounts of additional data points they have collected about registered and non-registered users alike.
In fact, search advertisers buy search ads by bidding on keywords, not people. It makes intuitive sense, too. If you search for ‘car’, you are more likely to respond to a car ad than something you searched for last week.
This keyword-based advertising is our primary business model. When you search on DuckDuckGo, we can show you an ad based on the keywords you type in. That’s it. And it works. Our privacy policy, in a nutshell, is to not collect or share any personal information at all. Every time you search on DuckDuckGo it is as if you were there for the first time – anonymous.
For example, if you type in ‘dishwasher’ you will get a dishwasher ad.
Google also makes most of their money via this same type of keyword-based advertising that doesn’t require any search-history tracking.
So why do they track it all then? Because Google is not really a search company; they are an advertising company. On Google, your searches are tracked, mined, and packaged up into a data profile for advertisers to follow you around the Internet through intrusive and annoying ever-present banner ads, using Google’s massive ad networks, embedded across millions of sites and apps.
This is why if you search for something on Google, you may start seeing ads for it everywhere.
Quote:Which is why I allow google but not its other scripts, which show up in almost every website that I've visited so far.
Using the internet doesn’t have to feel like you’re being watched, listened to, and monitored.
Google, Facebook, and The Creepy Line
Eric Schmidt, former Google CEO and Chairman, famously said “Google’s policy on a lot of these things is to get right up to the creepy line, but not cross it.” But for most people, that line was crossed by Google, Facebook, and others long ago.
Alarmingly, Google now deploys hidden trackers on 76% of websites across the web to monitor your behavior and Facebook has hidden trackers on about 25% of websites, according to the Princeton Web Transparency & Accountability Project. It is likely that Google and/or Facebook are watching you on most sites you visit, in addition to tracking you when using their products.
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
I'd nuke a BILLION PEOPLE if it would save the other 7 billion from living under Putin. Hell, I might go all the way to the last 100 people on Earth to keep this planet from being under fascist rule.- WISHIMAY
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Took a break from my computer stuff to go and pick up some of that paint that was on a three day sale that I had planned on using my prior rebates to purchase before I ended up burning them up on the other stuff I damn near got for free.
I needed to buy a gallon of enamel for the trim, and it wasn't on sale, but rather than make my job 10 times harder by painting it after it's already installed just to save 10 or 15 bucks, I resigned myself to it.
So... 5 gallons of paint with $40 bucks back on it. Not very good. Only about 25-30% off this time.
We can do better than that.
I picked up 6 things that were 100% free after the rebates. I've got enough spare roller sleeves and brushes to paint my entire house inside and out now for 55 bucks but I'll get all of that back, bringing today's haul somewhere 50% or more off retail. 
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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