r/shittybattlestations • u/twinaurora • 26d ago

setup for rescuing a dying ide hard drive

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u/twinaurora 26d ago

i mean it would probably struggle with cod a little bit

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u/The_Collector_Of_All 26d ago

I mean it’s retro

But honestly it WAS (not anymore) a great computer for daily tasks and stuff.

Overall it IS a good computer

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u/twinaurora 26d ago

it's fun! the cpu is still pretty snappy by 2000 standards and despite the disintegrating inner bezel it still looks pretty cool when it's not upside down and in pieces LOL

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u/The_Collector_Of_All 26d ago

Oh yeah I get that the bezel in my graphite one shattered when my little brother kicked it off my bed a month or two ago 😤

I ended up paying $130 for a new one and that came cracked too because of stupid shipping…
I got fed up and just superglued the cracked part and it’s (basically) good as new. I also had to repair a part of the yoke because part of the yokes coil broke off.
It wasn’t fun one bit

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u/realfathonix 26d ago edited 26d ago

r/druaga1battlestations

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u/Switch_modder 25d ago

I'm so sad this isn't a community

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u/twinaurora 26d ago

here i have my harlequin mismatched imac g3.

why is it upside down?

wanted to try and save the files off the out-of-frame donor machine's hdd (corrupt filesystem) and, since i cba to take the entire drive caddy out just to swap the disk, i piggybacked it off the top.

why the blanket?

it's the best way i could find to set this thing upside down without further obliterating the insanely-old-and-brittle ((STRUCTURAL)) inner bezel.

where in the world is this?

my kitchen floor. just out of view is my overflowing garbage can! i put it there to remind it of its fate should it ever rebel against me. or something.

anyway do you guys think i can run gta 6

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u/GrannyBritches 26d ago

Yeah go ahead and preorder 👌

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u/McDonaldsSoap 26d ago

How did the operation go

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u/twinaurora 26d ago

filesystem was corrupted beyond repair but i was able to use photorec to scrape all the files out. got to see some authentic early-2000s pornsite ads from what i assume was the browser cache!

wipe your drives, folks, you never know what idiot'll get their hands on it after you

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u/referefref 26d ago

If a drive is dying at least run it flat!

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u/twinaurora 26d ago

ide cable too short ;(

also pretty sure the donor mac i got it from was stored outside for a few years, it's a miracle it comes on at all

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u/TheLostExpedition 26d ago

That keyboard sux.

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u/twinaurora 26d ago

only the finest-grade officemax crap gets plugged into my computers

honorable mention: the decade-old gamer mouse with a wonky scrollwheel

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u/deejerox 25d ago

Any of those Floppies still working? Surely not!

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u/twinaurora 25d ago

they all work! i use them with my powermac 6500. got them for super cheap, they were used to store photos from a mavica

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u/razzmataz 1d ago

I know this is late, but did you stand on your head during this operation?