{"id":602,"date":"2007-05-26T09:23:43","date_gmt":"2007-05-26T01:23:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nargalzius.com\/blog2\/http:\/www.nargalzius.com\/blog2\/archives\/2007\/05\/2007_05_26_0923.php"},"modified":"2007-05-26T09:23:43","modified_gmt":"2007-05-26T01:23:43","slug":"nabuhay-ako-muli","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/05\/26\/nabuhay-ako-muli","title":{"rendered":"Nabuhay ako muli"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Been a while since I last blogged. My Macbook Pro died on me &#8211; specifically, the hard drive failed without any warning. I didn&#8217;t want to blog when not using <a href=\"http:\/\/ecto.kung-foo.tv\" title=\"Ecto\">Ecto<\/a>, which supports previewing of all my custom functions (<em>ie<\/em> footnotes, markdown, etc.)<\/p>\n<p>Incidentally, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.grc.com\/sr\/spinrite.htm\" title=\"SpinRite\">SpinRite<\/a> was of no use since it <strong>wouldn&#8217;t work<\/strong> on the MacBook Pro; it would only load to a certain point then not respond to any keyboard input &#8211; hence couldn&#8217;t get to the actual testing\/maintenance\/recovery operations. Fortunately, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.prosofteng.com\/products\/data_rescue_info.php\" title=\"Data Rescue II\">Data Rescue II<\/a> saved my ass &#8211; <em>again.<\/em> So I was able to recover <em>all<\/em> my data from the dying drive.<\/p>\n<p>I ended up getting a 3.5&#8243; 120GB IDE drive with external enclosure for about 3k bucks, which I installed and ran OS X from. It&#8217;s such a pain in the ass to not be able to move around when you have your laptop booting and running off a 3.5&#8243; drive as you need it powered from a wall-wart. But the price of a similarly sized 2.5&#8243; version is just too much.<\/p>\n<p>In any case, the service center where I usually have my stuff repaired pre-ordered a replacement drive without me having to show or leave the laptop with them for a few days (the benefits of being a trustworthy customer). They let me keep and use my laptop until the new drive came and I only had to visit once &#8211; having the drive replaced within the hour.<\/p>\n<p>So I&#8217;m back, and will now use the 3.5&#8243; drive as a dedicated clone of my laptop drive &#8211; in case something like this happens a third time (or any succeeding time for that matter).<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Been a while since I last blogged. My Macbook Pro died on me &#8211; specifically, the hard drive failed without any warning. I didn&#8217;t want to blog when not using Ecto, which supports previewing of all my custom functions (ie footnotes, markdown, etc.) Incidentally, SpinRite was of no use since it wouldn&#8217;t work on the &hellip; <p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/05\/26\/nabuhay-ako-muli\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Nabuhay ako muli&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,13],"tags":[324,377,530,718,861,1105],"class_list":["post-602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-technology","tag-data-rescue","tag-ecto","tag-hard-disk","tag-macbook-pro","tag-osx","tag-spinrite"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}