Perry’s weblog

I went in to work yesterday, fearing the worst in regards to the MS.Blaster worm crap, only to be faced by something worse. Guy’s hard drive had been clicking for a week and he finally decided to tell us about it. Ugh. Windows was moving SOOOOOOOOOO SLOOOOOW, it wasn’t even usable. He has TONS of documents and such on the computer, including a 350+MB Outlook PST archive. Gotta save it all.

Booted up the laptop with a Knoppix CD, login to an SMB share, and start copying things.. Some of the documents are corrupt, he’ll just have to deal. But the PST file.. hmm. I get about 30 megs copied and it craps out. Does that a couple times. I get the bright idea to setup an FTP server on the computer and try to get the file that way. No dice. Spend about 5 hours of my day working on it, in between a couple other things. Finally give up for the day.

Today, I went in and messed around some more. No luck. The thing felt pretty warm, so I popped the hard drive out to feel it. It was quite uncomfortable to hold. Odd. So I leave the cover off and try some more. I finally get up to about 200MB. I start the process again, and get bored and decide to spray some compressed air on it.. I’m sure it didn’t really do anything, but I got the file copied and kept myself entertained. Yay!

Meanwhile, my boss was busy playing Yahoo games the entire time… Sigh.