Computer Down and Out

[kevin_standlee]

Although the computer came up one more time as I wrote last night, and while I got as much of my settings off of it as I could, it was the last straw. The next reboot wouldn't boot, and my attempts at fixing it totally hosed it. It won't even boot into the recovery partition now. It's utterly hosed, and thanks to the encryption software, it's effectively bricked as a hard drive. We'll have to reimage it and start over next week. I hope I can manage with my personal machine for the next few days and that I haven't managed to lose anything irreplaceable.

Comments

[paradoox.livejournal.com]

D630 or D600?

I'm running D630 (and have run both D610 and Precision M20, basically a souped up D610 in the past). FWIW, I thought about buying a used Precision M2300 (a souped up D630), but am currently trying to buy a used E6330 for use on the road. It is a lot lighter than the E64xx and probably just as powerful. Certainly lighter and more powerful than the D630 / M2300.

In any case, runing BIOS A17 on the D630, I know of no boot partition limitations on the D630. I've been running my primary machine with a 150GB partition of with 140GB is full without problems. I think I have a couple of disks with a 250GB boot partition, but again, it probably is just 140GB full because it is a clone.

[kevin-standlee.livejournal.com]

Hm, I don't know. I know the D600, if you put more than 137 GB on the boot partition, will not boot. (You have have a larger partition there; you just can't store more than 137 GB on it.) I don't know about the later D6xx series, and assumed that the D630 had the same fault.

[paradoox.livejournal.com]

No, I'm pretty sure that "feature" was fixed from the D610 on. (The D610 is still PATA, the D620 and D630 are SATA.)