Yeah, this. In fact, going with hardware that’s too-too new can lead to a different problem on Linux.
OP, if you’re buying hardware, it’s worth web searching to make sure people have tried it on Linux and are having good experiences with it. Since most manufacturers only care if their stuff works on Windows, it can take a little while for Linux devs to write drivers and get them shipped in Linux distros.
It’s not like all of them were important personal stuff. I just figured it was easy enough to save everything now and look into what’s on them later. I’d just been doing dd conv=noerror but I need to see if there’s a better way.
Some of my disks were still error-free, so there’s hope for yours!
What are the media? (Probably isn’t, but it looks like blue corn tortilla chips around the edge.)
Why level downward to our dullest perception always, and praise that as common sense? The commonest sense is the sense of men asleep, which they express by snoring. Sometimes we are inclined to class those who are once-and-a-half-witted with the half-witted, because we appreciate only a third part of their wit. Some would find fault with the morning red, if they ever got up early enough. “They pretend,” as I hear, “that the verses of Kabir have four different senses; illusion, spirit, intellect, and the exoteric doctrine of the Vedas”; but in this part of the world it is considered a ground for complaint if a man’s writings admit of more than one interpretation. While England endeavors to cure the potato-rot, will not any endeavor to cure the brain-rot, which prevails so much more widely and fatally?
Let me see if I can slip these into your brain: w/b and j/k.
It’s true, Lemmy’s built-in search can be hit-or-miss. Unless something has changed, the best place to search communities is https://lemmyverse.net/communities (someone please tell me if I’m wrong).
Worth noting that there is an existing community at [email protected], although with lemm.ee shutting down soon and no discussion in the comm about where to move to, maybe this should be the new one.
Plus they like pickles, apparently.
You, you seem like good people.
Will I be able to run my steam and Epic games with this? What about another PC games I own?
Possibly yes, and incressingly possible over time. Check out ProtonDB. Proton is built into Steam. I don’t know anything about Epic.
And my hundreds of mp3 books and thousands of music files.
Absolutely yes.
I have them on internal harddrives. If I upgrade my main hard drive to this will I be able to access the files and docs on the two another drives?
Yep, there’s support for multiple hard drives, and Linux can read NTFS-formatted drives. But what’s more, Linux installers have long supported “guided partitioning,” which helps you install the OS alongside an existing one like Windows, and then choose between the two when you boot. Of course, when you’re installing any new OS, even Windows, you should make sure you have backups of all your stuff, just in case.
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Sweet.
Hey, how’s it going? I managed to do about 40 disks this week (still a fraction of my hoard), though most of them had errors and I’m not sure if my method is the best way to image corrupted disks, to allow for future error correction.
The article literally addesses this, citing sources.
What have you done for us lately?
“My $5 wrench says you better start installing Windows.”
Great, thanks! Full disclosure: this is how long mine has been on my to-do list.
Created 2014-01-03 22:43
Modified 2020-06-24 11:45
I’m finally setting myself a due-date: later this week. Check in with me, bud, I’ll check in with you!
By your own admission, 10 MB of data could be a shit-ton of stuff that sounds important to you. Just get it done.
And to not be a hypocrite, I’ll get going on my own similar project I’ve been putting off for years, haha. Do we have a deal?
Plus it’s double-extra meaningless on Lemmy, where you can run your own instance and give yourself whatever karma count/account date you want.