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  1. David Hingtgen
    Ironically, they're not glued in ENOUGH now, I think. Looking carefully at how the backplate flexes etc, on Roy----I actually decided to glue down Jetfire's as flush as I can. Then will reinforce it THEN see if I can get it to clip both in and out, nicely. The screw just isn't enough, at least not with the cheaper (more translucent?) plastic Jetfire's made of. It's definitely lighter/more flexible it seems. (also, a Roy booster really doesn't want to fit onto a Jetfire clip)
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    I compared Jetfire to an early Roy, and I see what you mean----a real one has this edge smooth and rounded, while Jetfire has it quite sharp and squared off: I do not think that is whole story though--your backplate looseness theory also seems to play a role----Jetfire's clip fits onto Roy pretty well, despite the sharp edge. I think it's the double-whammy of the sharp edge AND the backplate having issues, that combine to make attaching the booster-clip such a struggle.
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    There were unused ethernet jacks in the walls when I moved in. I had the 2nd bedroom (office) and living room ones wired up, so I can plug main PC and PS5 directly to the modem in the basement. They had 50% more latency on WiFi.
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    I "won the Amazon lottery" and not only got a legit, US-market drive (always a concern with Amazon PC parts), it's a very new one---April 2025 production.
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    But at the consumer level, taking into price+quality+availability----it looked surprisingly dead. I kept wondering why I couldn't really find much, until I realized, it looks like almost everyone jumped ship already to pure M.2. And I don't doubt the PS5 is part of the reason. A zillion M2's were sold because of it (I bought one!). And so competition/development of that segment of the consumer market was and still is high. My now-dead 2.5in SATA was in the coolest spot in the PC and all alone in a suspended cage.
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    I do, I was just looking to see what was available as a replacement for the dead one, which was a 2.5" SATA. My only M.2 slot is already being used by my OS drive. I didn't want to buy a new mobo solely to be able to have 2 direct-mount M.2's simultaneously. And 2.5" seems pretty dead, if you want a name brand.
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    And I went ahead and ordered that combo---even though my board's 2nd pcie x16 slot is only PCIE 2.0 (vs the 1st slot being 3.0), and the adapter only uses x4 bandwidth---that should still be much faster than SATA. And when it someday gets moved to a new board with multiple M2 slots, then it'll be faster still. One of my credit cards is doing 5% back this quarter with Amazon, and Amazon is offering 1 month free trial of Prime again, so free next-day shipping plus 5% off. So went with them instead of BestBuy or Newegg etc. (yes, Newegg is a shell of its former self, but still better than Amazon much of the time IMHO for PC parts). Decided on another 990 Evo Plus, same as my (almost)new OS drive. Everywhere still seems to say it's just about best thing ever. ::edit:: Seriously, Best Buy dropped the price $10 within minutes of me ordering from Amazon? :[
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    Been looking at SSD's, and am currently thinking: The 2.5in SATA market is already almost dead, with few real options. The 870 Evo was the last new model Samsung made and that was years ago. I don't want to buy another again. The Crucial MX is sold out everywhere. WD is just rebranded Sandisk. So thinking----M2 nvme on a pcie adapter card. Then I can hopefully move it to my next new mobo (and mount it directly) whenever my big upgrade happens. Price-wise, M2+adapter is the same or cheaper than a 2.5in.
  9. David Hingtgen
    Did you paint the fans silver, or did they come that way? Even the casings look silvery. Also, do I even want to know what a 5080 actually goes for right now?
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    I swear I saw a couple Am5+DDR4 ones, but could be mis-reported specs. If anyone has a 5600/5700/5800 they're not using/for sale, I'm interested.
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    Now copying what I grabbed to my main backup drive... I think the report of "99.95% recovered" was true. It seems to be all there. Even stuff from the last day I used it So then why does Windows act like that drive is the plague? Ubuntu reported a single bad sector. That shouldn't make the drive utterly unusable. And---well, now I need a new main storage SSD. Buy another Samsung SATA and hope I get luckier than the last one? Are M2's any more reliable, when it comes to random failure/tolerating forced shut-down? I'd need a new mobo to get a second M2 slot. (OS drive currently in only M2 slot) Would get either AM4/DDR4 and reuse everything, or one of the few AM5/DDR4 ones and upgrade CPU only.
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    I tried to mount it, but nothing happened. Gave it a while, but neither errors nor blinking---just, nothing. So far "testdisk" seems to work well. It can directly read folders and files from the img. And copy them to other locations. Doesn't seem able to sort by date, so I'm just having to scroll and manually pick them.
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    So---I have yet to find anyone agreeing with what to do with the actual .img file ddrescue creates. I do not want to clone the whole thing and put it on another drive, which is what most places seem to assume will be done. I want to "go in and grab certain files", assuming they're there. I have seen so many different programs/methods recommended. Anyone ever actually "grabbed the files out of a ddrescue-created img"? PS----this is purely a storage drive. It was never bootable. The fact that Windows "cares so much" about this drive, and refuses to boot if it's plugged in, and freezes if you glance at it, is what's so weird to me.
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    Said it got 99.95%. Now to see if I can actually get files out of the big image dump it made...
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    Busy day---installed Ubuntu. Tried DDrescue---it was working, but so slowly it estimated 28 years to finish. Googled some options---now trying a "skip anything that's damaged, just grab what you can do so easily" run and that is going MUCH faster:
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    Tried clonezilla's rescue function ----after 1.5 hours, it had done 0.82% and said 112 hours to go, with almost nothing recovered, so quit. Will look into DD rescue tomorrow. Ironically, I switched my main storage from HDD to SSD because it was getting old and I feared it failing. And here the SSD dies in like 2.5 years with no warning, and the old HDD seems fine... (just missing the last 2 years of files...)
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    Ok, I can get it to show the problem disk, with the proper partitions, if I use a SATA>USB adapter and treat it like an external drive. So I assume it's not 100% dead. Still can't view folder structure. However, trying to do Xcopy of folders I know are in there, gives me "invalid drive specification" (it's currently showing as F) My current theory/goal is to clone the main partition to another drive, then see if I can "open up the folders" and grab my files. Best way to do so? Is that even a viable theory? ::edit:: Hmmn, 100% free space. That doesn't seem good... Of course, if it was "just" 100% empty, then it should quickly be found/calculated and not cause Windows to have a fit just trying to find it... Here it is at the moment:
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    Current theory: Windows just has drive letter assignments all borked up, and is getting very confused. It actually works to put the old "D" drive from years ago in (my backup-backup at the moment), but it freezes, works, freezes, works, and repeats, until it eventually figures it out. Transferring what I can while it's working. Noticed that if you open drive manager THEN plug it in, it has a decent chance of reading it. (can't boot that way, so can't really USE the drive---but can at least scrape some files). Will try that method with the "just borked this week" drive later. (having to copy via USB 2.0....) It's like---it knows of multiple drives that have been "D" and it hates that it can't reconcile the differences and just freezes up when it encounters "any variation of a drive that has ever been D". (yet it doesn't have that problem with C, or most USB drives)
  19. David Hingtgen
    Well, it's looking worse and worse. Bios doesn't see the drive at all, Windows11 has it "briefly appear drive F, freezes for a while, then unfreezes with the drive disappearing again". Samsung Magician can't see it. (and it used to). Did it just up and 100% fail, overnight? Only 2-3 years old. Though I swear it showed up in drive manager once, fairy early in this saga. Last dying breath?
  20. David Hingtgen
    The storage drive is a SATA 2.5in Samsung 870 EVO SSD. Usually "D". It will sometimes show up as just a "disk" as "D", but is unreadable etc. It'll freeze if you try to click on it. Figuring a Win 10 reinstall is pointless, I finally upgraded to 11 right before going to bed. Will see if it handles drives any better. Am going to buy another external backup drive, and see if I can access the problem drive via an enclosure/USB and transfer contents. Generally: if only boot drive is installed, things are fine. If the storage drive is plugged in--problems, most often won't boot. If it does boot, then storage drive is unreadable/inaccessible in any way. Some USB sticks are now causing similar issues, if inserted---it sees they're there, and gives a drive letter-----but lists no volume/size/contents, and freezes if you try to look in them. Drive management will freeze if you try to do anything while the storage drive is plugged in. Have tried different SATA ports, and going to start trying different cables, just in case it's a physical problem. (but the fact it refused to close a browser and refused to shutdown RIGHT before everything screwed up, makes me think it's software/update, and not physical). Though of course, maybe a physical failure caused the refusal? But a storage drive shouldn't...
  21. David Hingtgen
    Or more simply: "Somehow, Dedra returned".
  22. David Hingtgen
    Got a weird problem with booting Windows (10): I normally shutdown every night. But this week I was working on a big Excel sheet (online, Windows Office), so only "went to sleep" for 4 nights in a row, to keep the site+page open. I think Windows wanted to do an update during then. When I finally was ready to shut down---it wouldn't. Wouldn't close the browser, which is pretty weird. Super-stuck. Had to force it to shut down. And of course, windows tends not to like that mid-update. Anyways---wouldn't boot into Windows after that. Tried everything, including unplugging other drives. Oddly, it now seems to boot when my main STORAGE drive is unplugged. But plugging the storage drive back in causes issues. The drive should be fine---in device manager, it can sense it and says it's working--but it won't assign a drive letter and has no volume. Can't figure out what's going on---I kinda "would like my storage drive to be plugged into the PC like it was this morning". My backup's old, I'd definitely lose a notable amount of stuff/work. Considering buying like an external mount/adapter, to treat it like a true "backup" drive and see if I can just pull files off it that way, and get a new one. (but really, I think the drive is fine, just the windows update totally borked drive assignments etc)---I did notice that it would NOT accept a windows media USB, which is very odd. I was planning on doing a repair reinstall, as that usually fixes most "weird" problems. But if it won't take the windows install USB... ::edit:: I think it's something with drives/letters-----half the time, if I put a USB drive in---it takes FOREVER to detect it, show the folders, etc. And half the time it just freezes. There is definitely something wrong with how it handles drives now. In short--what on earth happened, that Windows now even CARES about a storage drive?
  23. David Hingtgen
    Ok, almost all of those things are covered in the video I linked above. I think only the "right elbow" thing is something additional to look out for. It's so refreshing to own a valk that is simply SCREWED together, and not GLUED together. So easy to open it up to work on.
  24. David Hingtgen
    I plan to totally take it apart and fix every little bit of flash and burring, based on this vid I found: (the auto-translate subtitles work pretty well) What specifically were the arm issues? I don't recall seeing anything from the first release.
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    Early morning valk delivery!
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