Spinpoint F4 HD204UI 2TB 5400 RPM working good so far

Hi mattseattle

Every Man has to have enough respect to be worried about his Mum. Who else is gonna lend you £500 when you need it?

In regards to the

mattseattle wrote:
Did you shut down your Duo before you pulled out the hard drive? It shouldn't be resynching. I shut down my Pro and did all the drives and put them back in. After that I booted it back up and no resynch and no loss of date.

Yeah, powered down, done the right thing. But it was disk 2 of the Duo. Whether that makes a difference or not I'm not sure. I've just had some trouble with the disks. Basically I removed disk 1 to Patch first of all. Forgot that disk 2 is only a parity disk, and so in desperation trying to achieve the samsung patch, I formatted the disk 1 to NTFS to see if it'd work. Thinking I'd just replace it back into the Duo and it's re-sync etc..
It didn't......the Duo just reported missing paths to shares, as they were not showing on disk 1. As you can imagine, my brains' kicked in and realised what mdgm had told me the other week about disk 2 only being mirrored/parity. Balls!

mdgm sorted me out and instructed me to do this and that and disk 1 has now re-synced. And just patched disk 2 last night and that's re-synced. But maybe this time if I'd used disk 1 to patch first, there may have been no reason for either disk to re-sync. I guess I'll find out when I patch disk 1 later tonight or tomorrow. If it gets patched and goes back in and doesn't go through a 12 hour re-sync and retains data, then I'm pretty sure If I'd done disk 1 first (as it's the primal disk with mbr) , then disk 2 might not have had to go through the 12 hour re-sync.
I could be wrong, just a theory as to why it had to re-sync.

I'm just off back to where I bought the pc from. I've actually made and effort with my apprearenc. First time in weeks. A girl in the shop was flirting with me last night. It's been a long while since that's happened, been somewhere in limbo since my divorce etc...So this girl is flirting with me, god knows why as I think I look like a bag of s***. But not being used to it anymore, I felt like a rabbit caught in the head lights!

Anyway going back to the shop because the poxy pc or monitor I've just bought, doesn't have speakers! Is that normal these days? It was a mini tower, so that might be the reason, but the monitor? A new latest greatest LED monitor, and no speakers?

I should've paid £70 more for a bigger tower that might've had speakers inside. Also there's not room for nothing in this mini tower. But do I really want it to do anymore expansion wise? Haven't really got time these days. So I minged it and thought It would just get the job done of patching. Which it did.
Now I've broke the seal on the back of the unit, I doubt they'd exchange anyway. And I don't think I need the stress of hoping they don't check the seal on the back and then that look they'll give 'You've been in the pc you Sucker, no warranty now, how stupid do you think we are'. That look. I don't think I need the shame these days.

BTW the clarification I got on screen said 'Downloaded succesfully'. Not 'Upgrade successfully'. I'm assuming it's the same. Can anyone confirm?

Got to hide the new monitor, She's coming around on Saturday. The mini tower she might miss, but the monitor is too obvious. She's just lent me £500 as I had a cash flow problem, not going to work and all trying to patch these silly hdd's. If she sees the new pc, she'll think automatically I've used it for that (credit card for pc, did have a cash flow problem).
Now do you see why she'll kill me.?
Man or no Man, Sucker or Suckee?

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