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  1. The only thing I'm honestly scared of losing is my 250GB of anime which I don't have enough hard disk space on my internal drive to hold.

    Friday, 25-Apr-14 05:59:38 UTC from web
    1. @flamingpandaomg And nothing of value was lost

      Friday, 25-Apr-14 06:00:04 UTC from web
    2. @flamingpandaomg Copy in parts and burn to DVD

      Friday, 25-Apr-14 06:00:50 UTC from web
      1. @nerthos do you know if putting it into a zip archive at max compression would reduce it much?

        Friday, 25-Apr-14 06:01:27 UTC from web
        1. @flamingpandaomg Probably not. Video is already compressed most of the time (Unless you're using some godawful format like DVD player-compatible AVI)

          Friday, 25-Apr-14 06:03:16 UTC from web
          1. @nerthos .mkv

            Friday, 25-Apr-14 06:04:11 UTC from web
            1. @flamingpandaomg Yeah that's probably fairly compressed. You might be able to reduce the size by a 20% at max. Unless you use some ultra-compresson like the ones the guys who pirate games use, but those are both hard to find and reaaaaally slow to use.

              Friday, 25-Apr-14 06:05:27 UTC from web
              1. @nerthos I'm fine with 20%. That'd make it small enough I could temporarily put it on my drive incase this scan ends up fixing and formatting the drive.

                Friday, 25-Apr-14 06:06:15 UTC from web
                1. @flamingpandaomg Keep in mind that 20% is a fairly optimistic guess. You might get that or you might get a 4%. Also if the drive just disappears (the board stops recognizing it) I don't think you can fix it by software.

                  Friday, 25-Apr-14 06:08:17 UTC from web
                  1. @nerthos Stop crushing my hopes and dreams pls

                    Friday, 25-Apr-14 06:08:56 UTC from web
                    1. @flamingpandaomg Hey, at least I'm not charging you for doing actual IT support.

                      Friday, 25-Apr-14 06:10:21 UTC from web
                      1. @nerthos oh well grapes it running the scan or whatever. If I'm lucky, one of the sectors are just hard to read and the tool fixes it.

                        Friday, 25-Apr-14 06:11:17 UTC from web
                        1. @flamingpandaomg It doesn't hurt to try.

                          Friday, 25-Apr-14 06:12:12 UTC from web
                          1. @nerthos I'd really like if I could just not lose the drive, because it'd be ~$120 to replace it.

                            Friday, 25-Apr-14 06:13:03 UTC from web
                            1. @flamingpandaomg If it's power related you can probably solder whatever is loose and make it work again.

                              Friday, 25-Apr-14 06:15:14 UTC from web
                              1. @nerthos I don't know how to solder.

                                Friday, 25-Apr-14 06:15:35 UTC from web
                                1. @flamingpandaomg also I don't have a soldering kit.

                                  Friday, 25-Apr-14 06:15:45 UTC from web
                                2. @flamingpandaomg Well then you're murdocked

                                  Friday, 25-Apr-14 06:15:49 UTC from web