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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-
@flamingpandaomg And nothing of value was lost
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@flamingpandaomg Copy in parts and burn to DVD
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@nerthos do you know if putting it into a zip archive at max compression would reduce it much?
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@flamingpandaomg Probably not. Video is already compressed most of the time (Unless you're using some godawful format like DVD player-compatible AVI)
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@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.
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@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.
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@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.
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@nerthos Stop crushing my hopes and dreams pls
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@flamingpandaomg Hey, at least I'm not charging you for doing actual IT support.
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@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.
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@flamingpandaomg It doesn't hurt to try.
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@nerthos I'd really like if I could just not lose the drive, because it'd be ~$120 to replace it.
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@flamingpandaomg If it's power related you can probably solder whatever is loose and make it work again.
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@nerthos I don't know how to solder.
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@flamingpandaomg also I don't have a soldering kit.
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@flamingpandaomg Well then you're murdocked
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