Recent content by Wheel in the Sky

Oh ughhhhhh I'm booted off a HDD right now. That took like 10 minutes to get into Windows. But this time when I initialized the SSD in Disk Management, it actually worked instead of giving the error. So it works in my motherboard's NVMe slot, just not in my crappy USB enclosure that's possibly...

Crap, you might be right. I bought the enclosure from Amazon, and it states "4TB" in the title, and at least 4 times on the page. Seems like that might be the issue though. I got the Addlink from Amazon for $243. It was a good deal, the price returned to the much higher norm after that. It's...

I bought an Addlink Addgame A95 NVMe SSD, 4TB (https://www.amazon.com/addlink-Internal-Heatsink-Compatible-Solid-State/dp/B09HJVDW69?th=1). I also bought an external enclosure for it: MAIWO M.2 NVME SSD Enclosure Adapter (https://www.newegg.com/maiwo-k1689p-enclosure/p/0VN-00D8-00037). I hook...

Awesome, thanks for that.

Hi again, fellas. I plan to buy a smartphone to use as an mp3 player (and camera). I don't plan to activate it, so I could save big money by going with a phone locked to Walmart plans or a certain carrier, right? I could activate the SIM (not cellular service) with my existing gmail account, and...

That's true for lead-acid batteries, but it's not good to keep a lithium-ion battery plugged in when it's 100% charged. It lowers the max capacity of the battery. It happened with my laptop, but I didn't really care because I don't use it much. I don't want to do that to my phone, since I need...

Yeah, I didn't want to wear out my phone battery, but I might buy another phone instead of an mp3 player. I'm reading that phones might have better DAC's. An mp3 player might not amplify enough for speakers.

Thanks for the responses, everyone. Probably an mp3 player would do it, I just need to make sure it can play and charge at the same time, and can output the audio to my current speakers. I wasn't sure if a 10hr track would be a problem or not.

To sleep without interruption in my apartment building, brown noise has been a great solution for me. Brown noise is static like white noise, just deeper. Currently I run a cheap laptop overnight, and keep it plugged in because the battery won't last 8hrs. I want to know what a better...

Yeah I don't know if mirroring would have even helped in this case. So what happens to you if you work all day and a drive gets toasted before the nightly incremental? Seems like some data loss can't be protected against. Technically I haven't lost anything, but if I revert to last night's...

You're the You're the one who talking me out of disk mirroring lol. I don't see how else I could have protected myself in this situation. I can't make a clone or system image after every keystroke while I'm on the computer.

The problem with recovering from the system image is that it's recent, but not fully up to date. Swapping out some windows folders is going to be a lot faster than figuring out what data wouldn't get restored. It was a long shot, but I thought someone here might know which Windows folders would...

It shouldn't be too hard since I have a copy of the files from before they got corrupted, it's just a matter of knowing where the problem files might be.

I recently got a BSOD (driver power state failure). After rebooting, my Windows Update seems to have been broken, maybe because I had pending updates waiting on a restart. When scanning for Windows updates, it says "Error Encountered." It gives the code 0x80080005. Sfc /scannow and dism...

Plz, bawss.