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Jayenkai
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It's taking AGES!Copying many files = Slow work. |
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Today I plugged in Old HD #2, and started to copy everything over to New HD. I figured it'd be better storing all my garbage on there, since it's the bigger drive. I will of course be keeping Old HD#2 in storage, somewhere, as an emergency backup drive. Seems only right. Old HD#2 is an 80GB Maxtor drive from about 3 years ago. Constant usage as a webserver drive, a game development drive and my huge music archive haven't exactly been easy on it, and as I copy files I'm getting Cyclic Redundancy Errors all over the place. It seemed it'd take weeks of dragging and dropping, until I found a good-old Dos program (already on WinXP!) called XCopy. XCopy e:\music\ d:\music /s /i /y /c /z /f /h And off it trotted. About an hour in, and it's midway through my Mod directory, having already done the Midis. .. It makes me wonder. Do I really need all this? Then I answer myself. "It'll come in handy!" .. It probably won't, though! So, off I go to work, leaving my shiny new PC lying on the floor, side wide open, drive dangling off the edge, as it copies files from one place to the other. *sigh* Stupid short IDE cables. Huge big wire, up to a point, then the 2 ports are within about an inch of each other. Which idiot designed that! |
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| Saturday, 24 March 2007, 18:25 | |
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Yayyak |
Answer: IBM. If not, they were the ones who made the rest of the bad design decisions for the PC (ever wonder why there is a kink in the floppy cable, or why the default for the timer is 18.4432Hz?). We can blame them. 
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