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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)
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    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?
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    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...
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    Or more simply: "Somehow, Dedra returned".
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    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?
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    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.
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    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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    5 designs are finalists, but only 1 will be produced---go vote! https://ideas.lego.com/blogs/a4ae09b6-0d4c-4307-9da8-3ee9f3d368d6/post/d955d940-972b-4401-b013-eb948fcb5a62 And if you're not sure, I highly recommend/request you vote for the carousel.
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    If you got it shipped from ShowZ on May 14th, then wouldn't it be the revised "Macross-free" version that is even closer to the G1 markings?
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    Thank you, appreciate the links. Hmmn, looks like the valk itself is identical, no improvement to the fitment of parts or crispness of the deco. (which is inferior to the original releases)
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    Yeah, I can't see it either. Is it like a members-only tweet?
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    Dang, that's an expensive impulse buy, but I might have decided the same...
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    Was wondering if there's listing of what ones come with what color heatshields--at this point in time, it can be hard to tell what's original vs replacement when buying off Mandarake or Yahoo.jp or ebay etc. And Yamato especially had a nasty habit of photographing prototypes and putting those pics on the box---then changing things (like heatshield or backpack/leg coloring details) for the actual release. Specifically, I'm wondering about ones that may be molded in color vs painted that color, and stripping off Jolly Rogers markings etc. Are black ones always molded that way, always painted that way, etc? Same question for red. *talking about the V2 mold, not the OLD mold
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    My 1/60 Roy DYRL VF-1S has recently turned yellow similarly. NEVER exposed to sunlight, always kept in a windowless room. And for the past couple (5+ actually?) years, kept inside its windowless box in the closet. It wasn't yellow at all when I packed it up. Unpacking it a few years later--yellow.
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    Anyone ever tried to get a wing off? On a related note, I swear my landing gear doors used to close flush, but now the right one won't stay down. The gear itself just won't go *all the way down*--only by like 1mm, but it's enough to keep popping the door open/up.
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    Back left of the new pic---are they teasing a Lt Rand? Slowly working our way through the crew of the Excelsior... (though, the scene/hair is clearly ST III, not ST VI)
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    It's down again.
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    Way before the Fine Molds 1/72 F-14 existed, there was pretty much the Hasegawa and Fujimi options. And the Fujimi just had a way better parts breakdown and fit than the Hasegawa. So I imagine a VF-1 from them could have an equally-notable "modeler-friendly while still being highly detailed" aspect to it.
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    If they manage to make Sharon Apple instead of Skynet...
  22. David Hingtgen
    I'm still glad I bought my 3060 when I did---things have only gotten worse overall with newer stuff/prices, and the 3060 is only SLIGHTLY cheaper now than when I bought mine, despite it being older now. That said, I am tempted by the 4060 Ti 16GB...
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    Yeah, I'm thinking half of that, budget-wise. Anything $200 or more is better spent on a GPU at this point. Paying a premium for "the very best an old mobo can handle" is a bit of a waste.
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    None of the CPU's seem like they'd be THAT big an improvement, so I'm currently leaning towards the 5600X, or MAYBE the 5700X "as cheap as can be reliably had from aliexpress"
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    I don't recall the -23 being so rivet-y around the intakes...
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