Computers and Technology

I saw your post on that, and it made me again think of in the past how people would talk of “ghosting” a drive or making an image. I never understood that concept nor trusted it to be a true copy of the data. If I had another 6Tb drive, I’d do something like that. I have seen a WD-8Tb at a fairly good price, but that will just have to be a future…[Read more]

From my 4 Tb external drive-which was down to 199 Gb free space-to my new 5 Tb external drive and then made a copy of that onto another 5 Tb external drive. Was all my media files-movies, TV shows, music, etc. Both my new drives I formatted as ExFAT so that a Mac could easily read them if anyone wanted a copy of my stuff.

It was all sorts of file…[Read more]

I recognize the “dirty” part as I’ve read about that recently. It’s a weird thing Windows does to drives, or that has been written into the software of drives. You’d think they’d have a self-repair on simplistic things like that. Also, I’m surprise that Windows 10 isn’t backwards compatible with pretty much everything that’s come before. I don’t…[Read more]

Excuse the screen capture, needed to keep the table. Link below:

LINK–Wikipedia, NTSF

If it is an external drive that is used sparely and properly ejected, may not see a problem. As you said, the files are read only at this point. Leave them on the drive, there will minimal to no problems. When saving to the disk, use new file names.

I think it’s free, too. https://www.ccleaner.com/speccy

This is an external drive, and I do plan on upgrading to 10, but only after I’ve built a new computer. I recently replaced the old drive on this Dell with a 480gb SSD, and figure I’ll probably just re-use it in the new build with a clean install of Win10. Are you saying that my current…[Read more]

Actually, looking into your problem, I discovered the problem with another computer of mine.

NTFS of Windows 7 is not directly compatible NTFS of Windows 10. Windows 10 can read and write to the Widows 7 NTFS but it is not stable.

So what this means, if you did an update from Windows 7 to Windows 10, your computer will likely crash within a…[Read more]

Okay, thanks, I’ll keep your info on hand. But as I amended to my post, for whatever weird reason, it seems to have fixed itself. I did absolutely nothing more to the drive after I posted. Three hours later, it’s doing what it’s supposed to do instead of how it was inflating the allocation space.

I notice that when I do a properties of a folder…[Read more]

During a bit of housecleaning today, I uncovered an old USB hard drive I hadn’t used in a couple years. I decided to plug it in, check the contents, and see if it contained anything I still needed.

As it turned out, the drive was filled with a bunch of old, unwanted files. Great, I thought, I’ll just delete them and put the drive back into use…[Read more]

I did write Mozilla a note of my displeasure with the 78.0 update experience. I am assuming I was not the only one.

My day to day computer also has the automatic this or that turned off also, too many negative experiences.

Windows 10 reminds me of Vista on steroids, it is so easy to break.

But I’m guessing this is a common problem, as they’re already pushing a 78.0.1 update.

I don’t do auto-update on my browser, I do it manually through Chocolatey. Just in case issues like this come up and I’m ready to deal with any possible clusterfucks. I make it a policy to disable auto-updates whenever possible… which is one of the many…[Read more]

I think I’ll back up my bookmarks to be on the safe side. Hopefully it doesn’t impact me because I’ll never sign up for a Firefox account, or for any other browser for that matter.

Of course I never set any of that crap up to start with.

to make 2 complete backups on two 5 Tb external drives. Then by the time I finished, I had another 30 Gb of video to put on both of them.

W10Privacy.

This great little program lets you shut off all of Micro$oft’s built in spyware dragonshit and unnecessary bloatware. There’s also an option within the program to shut off the automatic updates from Windows 10 and do all the updates from within the w10Privacy program itself.

Even on the mostly bloat-free Windows 10 LTSC version (what…[Read more]

that I put on a new install.

+1 on Classic shell.

Whoever thought the Metro interface was a good idea should have kicked in their Backside. At the very least they should have given users the option to use the old menu system.

Also NLA and Network Connectivity Status Indicator (NCSI) are pieces of crap.

Among my other W10 must haves are..

Spybot Antibeacon