Hard Drive DEAD
Thursday, September 29th, 2005 | tags: computers, Tinkerbell |Normal service will resume in mid October
W.
scribbles tagged ‘Tinkerbell’
Operating system not found
Tuesday, September 27th, 2005 | tags: computers, Tinkerbell |My laptop is empathizing with my health… …after I pressed the power button this morning… …first it ‘whirred’ reminiscent of an electric ‘saw’… ..then this is what it said to me in a small font, centre screen…
operating system not found
Dad knowingly said ‘the bearings on your hard drive have ‘gone”
Doh. Lost my bearings…
Wendy
My Home Network. Fiddling.
Tuesday, September 13th, 2005 | tags: back-up, computers, Tinkerbell |<boring entry>
Initial set-up:
- old desktop replacement HP laptop runnng XP SP2 Professional (Tinkerbell).
- combined wireless base-station router (gateway?) connected to a DSL modem.
Problem space:
- Recently Tinkerbell started making disturbing ‘whirring’ noises intermittently. Scared the kitties. Spooked me. A ‘tap’ on the side stops it.. …but its a mystery…
- Tinkerbell could provide a useful resource on trip to the UK, homes with wireless networks and limited access to PC’s…
Requirements:
- Back-up digital music & photographs ‘outside’ the laptop.
- Storage accessible over wireless network (don’t want to plug it into my laptop).
- Easily add a photo-quality printer to the Network.
- Cheaper than replacing Tinkerbell.
- More storage than I currently need.
- No complex labeling and filing systems to manage (e.g. burning and maintaining a complex CD catalogue).
- Opportunities beyond my & the kitties current imagination…
The solution is not immediately clear to the the kitties and I.
Research:
- Searching online stores. Reading descriptions of Network thingy’s. Trying to work out what those descriptions meant and if they were good for the kitties and I.
- Verified research by asking specific questions of a store assistant (Fry’s).
Implementing the solution
- Purchase a network storage drive with printer-server (photograph attached).
- Follow instructions. Everything set-up ok… …then…
- changed the name of my remote storage folder…. ….things got too messy to describe here… …in time, i managed to ‘recover’.
- Searched XP help for ‘Back-up’. It wasn’t helpful. Later discovered it would have been helpful if I’d typed ‘backup’.
- 3hrs copying files from laptop to the remote storage – I havent got much ‘stuff’ yet!
Now Tinkerbell can ‘pop its clogs’ any old time. I can save for a light-weight, pretty, kitty-fur-repellant, replacement laptop. A small object of desire rather than a whirring functional brick!
Meanwhile, the brick will come to the UK with me. That means you’ll get more ‘verbose’ blog entries than if I used my phone…. Hooray! After all, it is all about you.
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