iceman
31-03-2010, 04:38 PM
It's been a frustrating week and a half!
On the Saturday about 1.5 weeks ago, I captured my first light data using my PST and DMK21AU04. There were some nice proms, filaments and active regions and I was looking forward to processing my first solar data.
I was lazy that day, and captured direct to the Macbook hard-drive instead of the external USB hard-drive like I normally do.
Well later that afternoon my Macbook started dying. The hard-drive failed and I couldn't boot up into Windows at all. I was able to boot up into Mac intermittently but couldn't access most of the data without it timing out.
Eventually I was able to boot up on an Ubuntu linux boot disc, and access the WinXP drive to copy my very important work and personal data off the hard drive onto a USB stick.
Over the course of a week, I was able to recover pretty much all of my work data, and most of my personal data. Some files were lost through being corrupted, some images and some of my iTunes music files. While annoying, it was a much better result than I initially thought I'd end up with. I thought I was going to lose it all!!
However, the directory that contained my solar PST data was completely corrupted and I wasn't able to recover ANY of the data out of the 7 avi's I captured that day.
Very frustrating!
After being on a Dell for the last week and a half, I'm now on my replacement Macbook Pro. It took a week to recover the data, and only a few hours yesterday to copy it all onto my new machine :)
So anyway, now i'm back to square one waiting to capture my first light PST data, with a week of rain and clouds scheduled! :help:
On the Saturday about 1.5 weeks ago, I captured my first light data using my PST and DMK21AU04. There were some nice proms, filaments and active regions and I was looking forward to processing my first solar data.
I was lazy that day, and captured direct to the Macbook hard-drive instead of the external USB hard-drive like I normally do.
Well later that afternoon my Macbook started dying. The hard-drive failed and I couldn't boot up into Windows at all. I was able to boot up into Mac intermittently but couldn't access most of the data without it timing out.
Eventually I was able to boot up on an Ubuntu linux boot disc, and access the WinXP drive to copy my very important work and personal data off the hard drive onto a USB stick.
Over the course of a week, I was able to recover pretty much all of my work data, and most of my personal data. Some files were lost through being corrupted, some images and some of my iTunes music files. While annoying, it was a much better result than I initially thought I'd end up with. I thought I was going to lose it all!!
However, the directory that contained my solar PST data was completely corrupted and I wasn't able to recover ANY of the data out of the 7 avi's I captured that day.
Very frustrating!
After being on a Dell for the last week and a half, I'm now on my replacement Macbook Pro. It took a week to recover the data, and only a few hours yesterday to copy it all onto my new machine :)
So anyway, now i'm back to square one waiting to capture my first light PST data, with a week of rain and clouds scheduled! :help: